Louis Zucker,Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Hynda Rudd and Ralph DeRose, September 1 & 4, and October 24, 1972, January 25, 1973 and June 1, 1977

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LOUIS ZUCKER #1 from the Civil War, Colonel John P. Nicholson. He commanded more respect in Philadelphia than most of your 516 generals of the United States Army do today. Colonel John P. Nicholson, Union League. Colonel Nichol­son was like a father to my father, you see. When my father came to Philadelphia, he did not know a word of English. He had nothing but his skill and his gentleness of personality. Colonel Nicholson encouraged him, gave him employment, and helped him to establish himself. He was concerned about bringing my mother over, his wife, and was just like a father to him. Colonel Nicholson was a Republican. My father sometimes said it, "If the Republican party ran by a broomstick, Colonel Nicholson would support it." Anybody Colonel Nicholson supported, my father supported. Incidentally too, from Colonel Nicholson my father learned old-school American manners which I have not shaken off to this day and never will, of course. Colonel Nicholson was next to God. HR: You mean he was very genteel? LZ: He was a gentleman. He was also a collector and a great friend of some of those great collectors. There was Major Lambert, a major from the Civil War. Major William H. Lambert, who acquired the greatest collection of Lincolniana, I suppose, there ever was. Also, the 19