| Short Name: | James L. Nicholson |
| Full Name: | Nicholson, James L., 1828-1896 |
| Birth Year: | 1828 |
| Death Year: | 1896 |
Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)