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Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1803, near Union Point, Ga. He was for several years a judge of the supreme court of the state.

He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841; took an active part in the rebellion of 1861; and became a member of the confederate congress. It is stated that Judge Nisbet drew the original resolutions dissolving the connection of the state of Georgia with the American Union at the time of the outbreak of the civil war. He died March 18, 1871, in Macon, Ga.

NITSCH, MRS. HELEN ALICE (MAT- THEWS), author, was born in England.

She was a writer on domestic science whose home was at Plainfield, N. J., and was the author of Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop's Family; and Progressive Housekeeping. She died in 1889.