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Nabers, Benjamin D

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was elected a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1851 to 1853. Returning to Tennessee he was a presidential elector in 1861 from that state.

Nadal, Ehrman Syme

journalist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1843, in Lewisburg, W. Va. He is a journalist who has lived much in London as secretary of legation in 1870, 1871, and 1877-84. He is the author of Essays at Home and Elsewhere; Impressions of London Social Life; and Zweiback, or Notes of a Professional Exile.

Nance, Albinus

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born March 30, 1848, in La Fayette, Ill. He served in the union army throughout the civil war.

In 1871 he moved to Nebraska; was a representative in the state legislature in 1875-78; and was speaker of the house the two latter years. He was elected governor of Nebraska in 1878, and re-elected in 1880.

Naphegi, Gabor

author, poet, was born in 1824 in Hungary. He was a native of Buda-Pesth who became a naturalized American citizen in 1868. He was the author of Ghardia, or Ninety Days in the Desert; The Album of Language; Hungary; Among the Arabs; and The Grand Review of the Dead, a volume of poetry.

He died in 1884.

Napheys, George Henry

physician, author, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He was a prominent physician and medical writer of Philadelphia; and the author of The Body and its Ailments; Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern Surgical Therapeutics; The Transmission of Life; Physical Life of Woman; Prevention and Cure of Disease; and Personal Beauty. He died in 1876.

Nash, Abner

lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 8, 1716, in Prince Edward county, Va. He was the first elected speaker of the North Carolina senate, serving several terms. He was the second governor of the state under the constitution in 1781. From 1782 to 1785 he was in the assembly; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1782 to 1786. He died Dec. 2, 1786, in New York.

Nash, Charles E

soldier, congressman, was born May 23, 1844, in Opelousas, La. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Nash, Francis

soldier, was born May 10, 1720, in Prince Edward county, Va.

He was commissioned brigadier-general by the continental congress in 1777, and commanded a brigade at the battle of Germantown, where he was mortally wounded. He died Oct. 7, 1777, in Germantown, Pa.

Nash, Frederick

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1781, in New Berne, N. C. He represented New Berne in the legislature in 1813-17. He was a judge of the superior court from 1818 till his resignation in 1824; and was re-elected to that office in 1836. He died Dec. 5, 1858, in Hillsborough, N. C.

Nash, Henry Sylvester

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1854 in Ohio. He is an episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Mass., and professor of New Testament interpretation in the Episcopal Theological school since 1884. He is the author of The Genesis of the Social Conscience; and The Relation Between the Establishment of Christianity in Europe and the Social Question.

Nash, Simeon

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 21, 1804, in South Hadley, Mass. He was a jurist of Gallipolis, Ohio; and the author of Digest of Ohio Reports; Pleading and Practice under the Civil Code; Morality and the State; and Crime and the Family. He died Jan. 19, 1879, in Gallipolis, Ohio.