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Ninde, William Xavier

clergyman, bishop, was born June 21, 1832, in Cortland, N. Y. He attended the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn.; has filled various pastorates in the methodist episcopal church; and for many years was president of the Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill. In 1881 he was a delegate to the methodist ecumenical conference in London. Since 1884 he has been bishop of the methodist episcopal church, and resides in Detroit, Mich.

NINDEMANN, WILLIAM FRIEDRICH CARL, explorer, inventor, author, was born April 22, 1850, in Germany. He went on the arctic expedition in the steamer Polaris, which sailed from New London in 1871. He has invented a tong for the gaff of fore-and-aft rigged vessels, which was patented in 1883; and is the author of a pamphlet entitled Eines Deutschen Matrosen Nordpolfahrten.