About Nicholas J. Juried

Nick’s career in advertising, marketing and sales promotion began in 1954 as a copy writer with Laux Advertising in Ithaca, NY, becoming Copy Chief and then an Account Executive serving a wide variety of consumer and industrial advertising accounts. His career next proceeded by joining Roy H. Park Enterprises, Ithaca, as Editor and Advertising Manager for Cooperative Digest and Farm Power two national agricultural trade magazines. This was followed by being recruited by Brown & Bigelow, Minneapolis, MN, as their central NY sales representative for advertising calendars, business gifts and sales promotional specialties.

Love at first sight blossomed from a blind date with Dorothy Cox, a tall, blonde haired, sun tanned, charmingly accented native Texas working as a registered nurse in the Cornell University Medical Clinic. Following a whirlwind courtship, they married in February 1956 and a daughter, Amy Chrysis, was born November 1957. In 1961, a dramatic change occurred in the course of their life after a cold, mid-winter vacation visit to San Antonio, Dorothy’s home town. The seduction of warm weather, drinking Lone Star and Pearl beer, dining on the San Antonio River Walk and the ambiance of Texan/Mexican culture convinced them to leave New York and move to San Antonio, which they did later that same year.

Arriving in San Antonio he joined the sales team of radio stations KONO-AM and KITY-FM as Sales Manager and after seven years ventured to form his own company, Nick Juried Associates, Inc., as a manufacturers representative agency selling premium, incentive and promotional products in the exclusive territories of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana and moved to Houston to better serve his larger corporate and oil industry clients. Seven years later he moved to Austin to now manage his representative offices in Houston, Dallas and Oklahoma City and forming two new subsidiaries, United Marketing Services and TexSesqui Marketing to service specialized promotional programs, most notably the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration for which he created many of the official commemorative products that are now highly collectible.

Professionally, he was highly active in IMRA, Incentive Manufacturers Representative Association, the national trade organization on which he served as a Director, Chairman of the Ethics Committee and as President from 1975-76. In 1991, led by a yearning for “a return to the land”, he and Dorothy decided to buy a 37 acre section of an old ranch in Sandy, Texas to live a life of homesteading and self reliance. With their own hands and creativity they labored to restore and remodel the original 1920’s tenant house, build a two story guest house, a greenhouse, a large two story barn, chicken sheds, vegetable aand flower gardens, a peach orchard and plant a 300 vine, drip irrigated vineyard from which they produced their own red wine under the “Spring Creek Farm” label. Along with a donkey named Sparky, a small herd of Herefords, a flock of chickens, guinea hens and peacocks they lived a happy rural lifestyle. After 11 years, though, they returned to Austin to live a more leisurely retirement and with time to travel.

In 2003 he founded the Nicholas J. Juried Family Foundation with the motto, “Making A Difference” and began a mission of philanthropy supporting a wide spectrum of non-profit organizations, including museums, historical societies, food banks, animal rescue and welfare shelters, homeless, social justice, and women’s reproductive rights issues. His generosity was widely recognized, most notably with naming of the Nicholas J. Juried History Center, Dorothy Cox Juried Pavilion, and the John and Anna Juried Agriculture and Fossil shelters on the Gilboa Museum Campus. He was also named Honorary Editor of Catskill Tri-County Historical Views for his founding support. The Mountain Eagle named him 2019 Person of the Year and awarding him their Lifetime Achievement Award. The Village of Middleburgh named a Nicholas J. Juried Park for his vital financial support of the Middleburgh business district during the early Covid-19 crisis and also presented with The Key to the Village. The M&S Railroad Passenger Depot in Middleburgh was also named for his restoration contributions. The Jefferson Historical Society and the Historical Society of Middletown also named their Libraries of historical document archives in his honor.

In 2018 he self-published his book, “As I Remember Things”, a compilation of his memories, biographical narratives, family letters, the spring Creek Farm homesteading adventure, published articles of tragedy, love and drama gleaned from letters written in the 19 th century, and “Loosed Ends” writings. In addition, he collaborated in 2020 with the Zadock Pratt Museum in publishing the widely acclaimed Zadock Pratt Museum Catskill Historical Quilts Coloring Book. Dorothy, Nick’s beloved wife of 59 years, passed away in January 2015 at age 92. The Zadock Pratt Museum is indebted to Nick Juried and the Nicholas J. Juried Foundation for its critical support in the years following the Museum’s recovery from Hurricane Irene, both to our infrastructure and our collections.