Linus May Nickerson (June 22, 1823 – September 12, 1888) was a Methodist minister who also served as Chaplain of the 122nd New York Infantry, a Republican delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, and an Indian Agent in Lake County, Oregon before his death in Grafton, California.
Nickerson lived in Falls Church (now a suburb of Washington, D.C.) in 1867, when Fairfax County voters elected him and Orrin E. Hine to represent them at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868.
[4] The 1870 federal census showed Nickerson as a clergyman owning real estate (probably the house), and noted that their 12-year-old son George, as well as a 13 year old waitress living with them named Sara French were of school age.
The following year he succeeded his boss, John H. Roork (whose wife or daughter was the other teacher) as Indian Agent for the Klamath and related indigenous people in Oregon.
Three years later, his report to the Bureau of Indian Affairs noted the good relations tribal members had established with whites in the surrounding community.