[7] In December 1886, shortly after the club committed to play in the National League, The Sporting Life reported that the Pittsburgh club was "owned by Messrs. Nimick, Converse and Brown in equal shares".

[5] An 1888 Pittsburgh Press article names Nimick as one of four equal-part owners of the club.

[3] Nimick sold his shares of the franchise to William Chase Temple following the 1891 season.

[8] Nimick graduated from Chester Military Academy (now Widener University) in 1865 and was briefly an officer in the United States Army at the end of the Civil War.

[9] He was involved in various Pittsburgh businesses, was a bank director, and was the president of a publishing company.