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Noble, David A – Nolan, Michael N

Noble, David A

lawyer, congressman, was born in Massachusetts. On moving to Michigan, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

Noble, Edmund

journalist, author.

He is a journalist who traveled in Russia in 1882-84, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. He is the author of The Russian Revolt.

Noble, James

state senator, was born about 1790 in Battletown, Va. He was a senator in congress from Indiana from 1816 to 1831. He died Feb. 26, 1831, in Washington, D. C.

Noble, John Willock

lawyer, soldier, was born Oct. 26, 1831, in Lancaster, Ohio. He served two years as city attorney of Keokuk, Iowa. He entered the service as first lieutenant in 1862, and was brevetted brigadier-general for distinguished and meritorious services in the field. He was appointed United States district attorney for eastern Missouri in 1867, which office he resigned in 1870. He was appointed secretary of the interior in 1889.

Noble, Louis Legrand

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1813, in Lisbon, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the state of New York; and the author of Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; and A Voyage to the Arctic Seas. He died Feb. 6, 1882, in Ionia, Mich.

Noble, William H

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 in New York. He served three years in the assembly of that state from Cayuga county, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. He died Feb. 5, 1850, in Rochester.

Noel, Edmond Favor

lawyer, legislator, was born March 4, 1856, near Lexington, Miss. During 1882-84 he was a member of the Mississippi state legislature; and in 1896 he was elected a member of the state senate for four years. He is an able lawyer of Lexington, Miss., and during 1887-91 served with distinction as district attorney.

Noell, John W

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1816, in Bradford county, Va. He served four years in the state senate of Missouri. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He died March 14, 1863, in Washington.

Noell, Thomas E

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 3, 1839, in Perryville, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirtyninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth congress. He died Oct. 3, 1867, in St. Louis.

Nokes, Sylvester D

soldier, farmer, politician, was born Feb. 11, 1835, in Franklin county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted in company E, one hundred and nineteenth Illinois volunteer infantry; he was mustered in as second lieutenant, and was subsequently promoted to captain. He is a successful farmer of Brown county, Ill.; is prominent in the political affairs of his county and state; and has filled a number of important public offices.

Nolan, Daniel M

merchant, poet, was born June 17, 1842, in Ireland. He emigrated to America in 1865, and is now a successful merchant of Haverhill, Mass., and is known in New England as the Grocer-Poet. He has written extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press, and is the author of a volume of his collected poems, which contain wit, humor and pathos.

Nolan, Michael N

manufacturer, congressman, was born in May, 1834, in Ireland. He was elected mayor of the city of Albany, N. Y., in 1878, re-elected in 1880, and again re-elected in 1882, while serving as a member of congress. He was elected to the forty-seventh congress as a democrat.

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