[2] He was born on April 1, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a son of Lewis Nixon I.
In 1902 or 1903, he was painted as a boy by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) full-length dressed in Scottish costume (Private Collection, New Jersey).
He attended Yale University at the Sheffield Scientific School, where he was arrested for assault in 1914 after he almost killed Edward H. Evrit with a large metal bolt.
[8] He was a vice president of the Nixon Nitration Works during the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster and his father was the president.
[2] He died on January 12, 1958, at his home in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.