that same year, nichols won a gold medal at the tenth cincinnati industrial exposition for some of her works. in 1885 george nichols died, and by march of the following year she was remarried to a lawyer named bellamy storer. in the wake of her first husband's death, storer's output had lessened considerably. in 1889 she won a gold medal at the paris exposition, and that same year she handed her small company over to william w. taylor (who incorporated the small factory).