[3] Philip H. Nicklin, an eminent bookseller and scholar, born in Philadelphia in 1786, received a collegiate education at Nassau Hall, whence he graduated, in 1804, in the class with Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL.D., Alfred Ely, D.D., Joseph R. Ingersoll, LL.D., Philip Lindsly, D.D., Nathaniel S. Prime, D.D., and Samuel L. Southard, LL.D., one of the most distinguished classes ever sent forth from that institution.
Mr. Nicklin first studied law, but after the death of his father, in 1807, on account of pecuniary considerations, he resolved to embark in .mercantile pursuits.
He also published " Letters Descriptive of the Virginia Springs ;" " A Pleasant Peregrination through the Prettiest Part of Pennsylvania ;" " Remarks on Literary Property ;" and various papers on " Free Trade."
He manifested great interest in the cause of free trade ; was a member of the Free Trade Convention which met at Philadelphia in 1831 ; and was the author of the Exposition of the Operation of the Tariff System, in Relation to Books, Bookbinding, Frmting, and Printing Paper," which was published among the documents annexed to the public report of that Convention.
In the midst of his public usefulness, and without the premonitions of gradual decay in health, Mr. Nicklin died suddenly, at Philadelphia, March 2d, 1842, aged fifty-six years.