• David A. Nicholson
• Maria Avery Nicholson
• Henry "Harry" Standing
• Sarah Nicholson Standing
• Arthur Lees Nicholson
• Mary Alice Nicholson Standing
• Louisa Nicholson
• Margaret Fox Bentley Nicholson
• Maria Nicholson Yole
• Sarah "Serita" Tyndale Bentley Bredin
• Herbert "Bert" Alexander Bentley
• Marian Fox Gill
• Arthur Charles Standing
• Margaret Fox Nicholson Taylor
• Helen Standing Spriegel
• Evelyn Standing Thomas
• Gladys Standing Bierma
• Edith Nicholson Stackhouse
• Wanda Standing Knight
• Lucille Standing Guindon
• Cameron Foster
• Elsie Standing Kuhn
• Ted Foster
• Rebecca Carraway Crisman
• Ron Knight
• Pamela Knight Madden
• Alberto Guindon
• Sylvia Thomas
• Chris Stackhouse
• Diane Lesh Gray
• Juanita Bierma Hicks
• Karen Lesh Shubert
• Paulette Knight Green
• Helena Guindon Curtis
• Randy Kisling
• Joan Clark Keck
• Rebecca Nicholson Ormiston
• Bruce Nicholson
• Merilee Johnson
• Brian Hutzell
• Brian Standing
• Kimberly Gundlach Campbell
• Andrea Michele Plagman
• Beecher Trouble Smith-Stackhouse
• Elizabeth Bierma
• Natosha Knight
• Shannon Hicks
• Cassandra Osborne

This website seeks to collect under one "virtual roof" the artwork*** of the extended Nicholson/Standing family in the new world as well as the "root" artwork of David Nicholson. Though David did not emigrate, two of his works, an oil painting in the style of Gainesborough and a watercolor are owned by family members in the "States."

Early Standing art in our collection begins with some pencil sketches by George Standing's son Henry.

The impetus for this site began when my niece, Kate Plagman, looking for material for a women's history paper, asked how she might view artwork by her great-great aunt, Sarah Nicholson Standing. I realized that I had seen a little family art and that she, one generation younger, had seen even less than I, but that the Internet could link all of us in the family and perhaps others we do not know if we developed a website. The webmaster for this site is Kate's mother, web designer Michele Plagman. You may reach her at mplagman@usa.net.

The Nicholson/Standing family in the U.S. has concentrations in central Iowa near Earlham, and on the East Coast, formerly in northern New Jersey, Rochester, NY and near Philadelphia. Our common Nicholson ancestor, David Nicholson, was born almost 200 years ago, lived in Kent, southeast of London.

Our common Standing ancestor, George Standing, lived in Leigh, Lancaster and other towns in the English midlands before he immigrated to the United States in 1870. George writes of his life in: Grandfather (George) Standing's Autobiography

"Some Adventures of George Standing & Deborah, his Wife & Six Sons Coming from England & Taking up Farming in Iowa" are written about in Henry Standing's Adventures In Iowa, 1870.

The Standing/Nicholson family hosts family reunions every other year. For updates and reunion news, please see: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~fosterth/standing2004.html.

Ruth Alliband
Stillwater, Minnesota
October 2005



*** Artwork on this website has been submitted by family members. Most are shown here without frames to correct distortions. Please contact the owner(s) for more information concerning any of the pieces.

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