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In 1898, Nixon moved to Crowley, where he became the editor of ''The Rice Journal'' and ''The Southern Farmer.'' His Rice Belt Printing Company produced the weekly ''Rice Belt News'' and ''The Crowley Daily News,'' later turned into the ''Crowley Daily Signal.'' From 1906 to 1909, he was part owner and manager of the Signal Printing Company. He was national editor and later president of the National Amateur Press Association,<ref name=jtnixon>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - N - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), "Nixon, John Travis,''Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 20, 2021.</ref> an organization founded in 1876 in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].

In 1898, Nixon moved to Crowley, where he became the editor of ''The Rice Journal'' and ''The Southern Farmer.'' His Rice Belt Printing Company produced the weekly ''Rice Belt News'' and ''The Crowley Daily News,'' later turned into the ''Crowley Daily Signal.'' From 1906 to 1909, he was part owner and manager of the Signal Printing Company. He was national editor and later president of the National Amateur Press Association,<ref name=jtnixon>Dictionary of Louisiana Biography - N - Louisiana Historical Association (lahistory.org), "Nixon, John Travis,''Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 20, 2021.</ref> an organization founded in 1876 in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].

Nixon served on the Acadia Parish School Board. In 1899, he opened a library in his Crowley home which served as a public reading room. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows]] lodge. Nixon died in Mobile, Alabama; public schools in Crowley closed for his funeral, and no newspaper was published. The IOOF in Carson in Beauregard Parish is named in his honor. He is interred at Crowley Cemetery.<ref name=jtnixon/><ref>The Louisiana Historical Association used ''The National Amateu,r'' XLI (1919) and the memorial issue of ''The Covenant, A Journal of Odd Fellowship,'' February 10, 1909, in the compilation of its material on the Nixon biography.</ref>

Nixon served on the Acadia Parish School Board. In 1899, he opened a library in his Crowley home which served as a public reading room. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge. Nixon died in Mobile, Alabama; public schools in Crowley closed for his funeral, and no newspaper was published. The IOOF in Carson in Beauregard Parish is named in his honor. He is interred at Crowley Cemetery.<ref name=jtnixon/><ref>The Louisiana Historical Association used ''The National Amateur'' XLI (1919) and the memorial issue of ''The Covenant, A Journal of Odd Fellowship,'' February 10, 1909, in the compilation of its material on the Nixon biography.</ref>

==Leola White Nixon==

==Leola White Nixon==