Joseph Hulbert Nichols (August 20, 1805 - December 11, 1862) was an American minister and author. He was born, August 20, 1805, at Newtown, Connecticut, where he resided until 1815, whenhis parents removed to New York City. He fitted for college in the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1825. After attending a course of medical lectures in New York, he studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., and also in the Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1828, at Albany, but soon gave up the profession of law and fitted himself for the ministry by a course of study in the General Episcopal Theological Seminary in New York. He graduated there in 1831, and was immediately ordained by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk. He was then called to Richmond,