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Neilson, John

congressman , was born March 11, 1745, in New Brunswick , N. J. He was a delegate from New Jerfrom New Jersey to the continental congress in 1778 and 1779. He died March 3, 1833, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Neilson, Joseph

author, was born in 1813 in New York. He was the author of Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some Consideration of His Studies, Opinions, and Style. He died in 1888.

Neligan, William

clergyman, author, was born in Ireland. He was the author of Saintly Characters; The Ro- ; The Rosary; Manual for Confraternities; and ; and other religious works. He died Jan. 30, Jan. 30, 1880, in New York city.

Nelson, Daniel Thurber

physician, educator, was born Sept. 16, 1839, in Milford, Mass. In 1866 he was elected professor of physiology and histology at Chicago Medical college, which chair he then held until 1880, and in 1881 he was made adjunct professor of gynecology at Rush Medical college. He has invented an improved trivalve speculum and other surgical instruments.

Nelson, David

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 24, 1793, near Jonesborough, Tenn. He was a presbyterian minister and educator of Missouri and Illiand Illinois. His principal work, Cause and Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read He died Oct. 17, 1844, in Oakland, Ill.

Nelson, Harry Leverett

lawyer, author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Worcester, Mass., and the author of Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of nature studies. He died in 1889.

Nelson, Henry Addison

clergyman, educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1820, in Amherst, Mass.

He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor at Lane seminary in 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of The Church at Home and Abroad. He is the author of Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; and Home Whispers.

Nelson, Henry Loomis

journalist, author, was born in 1846 in New York .

He is a journalist of New York city , and editor-in-chief of Harper's Weekly.

He is the author of The Money We Need ; Our Unjust Tariff Law; and John Rantoul, a novel.

Nelson, Homer A

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1829, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was elected judge of Dutchess county, N. Y., for four years, and in 1859 was re-elected for a seca second term. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyeighth congress. In 1867 he was elected secretary of state; and re-elected in 1868 and 1869.

Nelson, Hugh

lawyer, jurist, diplomat, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1768, 30, 1768, in Virginia. He was speaker of the house of the of delegates of Virginia; a judge of the general court; and a presidential elector in 1809. He was a member of congress from 1811 to 1823; and was immediately afterward appointed American minister to Spain. He died March 18, 1836, in , 1836, in Albemarle county.

Nelson, Jeremiah

merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1769, in Rowley, Mass. He served as a representaa representative in congress from Massachusetts 1805 to 1807, and again from 1815 to 1823. to 1823.

He died Oct. 2, 1838, in Newburyport , Mass.

Nelson, John

lawyer, congressman, was born June 1, 1791, in Fredericktown, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1821 to 1823. In 1831 he was appointed charge d'affaires to the Two Sicilies; and in 1844 was appointed attorney-general of the United States.

United States.

He died Jan. 8, 1860, in Baltimore , Md.