Born in a Presbyterian mission hospital on the Navajo Reservation, Nicolas Shumway was raised in St. Johns, Arizona, a small farming and ranching community in the northeastern corner of the state. His father owned a garage and tire shop, and his mother taught grade-school music. His first name—Nicolas without an “h”—follows the French spelling which his mother got from a popular violin method book written by a Frenchman, Nicolas Laoureux.
Born in a Presbyterian mission hospital on the Navajo Reservation, Nicolas Shumway was raised in St. Johns, Arizona, a small farming and ranching community in the northeastern corner of the state. His father owned a garage and tire shop, and his mother taught grade-school music.
Hazel Nutt
His first name—Nicolas without an “h”—follows the French spelling which his mother got from a popular violin method book written by a Frenchman, Nicolas Laoureux. The name Shumway is a misspelled French name that was originally Chamois, also the name of a wild mountain goat that lives in the French Alps.
Aida Bugg
At an early age—five or six years old? —Nicolas realized that he was different from other boys. As the years progressed, he recognized that he was homosexual. Processing this fact while determining how it would affect his relationship to his family, his community, and the LDS Church was a major issue during his teens and twenties.
Ann Chovey.