Editing J. C. Nichols (section)

==Early life==
Jesse Clyde Nichols was born in 1880, a son of farmers living near Olathe, Kansas.  He worked various jobs while attending high school, and worked for a year after graduation selling wholesale meat.<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FBiographies&CISOPTR=268|last=Ford|first=Susan Jezak|publisher=Kansas City Public Library|year=2003|accessdate=December 18, 2014|title=Biography of J. C. Nichols (1880-1950), Developer|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211082432/http://www.kchistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FBiographies&CISOPTR=268|url-status=dead}}</ref>   
While he matriculated at the [[University of Kansas]], he managed the college football team, reported for a newspaper, and served as class president.<ref name=ford/> Graduating at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902, he accepted a one-year scholarship at [[Harvard University]], and earned a second Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1903. Nichols returned to Kansas City and joined some college friends to establish Reed, Nichols & Company, operating as real estate developers. In 1905, he married Jessie Miller, a woman from Olathe, Kansas.<ref>{{cite book|last=Worley|first=William S.|year=1993|title=J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: innovation in planned residential communities|location=Columbia, Missouri|publisher=University of Missouri Press|page=xiii|isbn=9780826209269}}</ref>