Noble, Patrick
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born in 1787 in Abbeville district, S. C. He was a state representative from South Carolina in 1812; was speaker from 1818 to 1824, and again from 1832. In 1836 he was president of the state senate, and was governor from 1838 to 1840. He died April 7, 1840, in Abbeville, S. C.
NOBLE, THOMAS SATTERWHITE, artist, was born May 29, 1835, in Lexington, Ky. He studied art in Paris, and has attained success as a painter of history, genre and portraiture. In 1865 he exhibited his first important canvas, The Slave Market; in 1866 he exhibited Margaret Garner, a tragedy from real life; and in 1867 he painted The Price of Blood, a successful picture depicting slave life. In 1868 he was elected to fill the chair of fine arts in the university of Cincinnati, the art department of. which institution in 1884 was transferred to the Cincinnati Museum association, of which Mr. Noble is still the presiding officer. Other of his works are: John Brown; Witchill; Forgiven; and other subject pictures; and his principal portraits are of Joseph Longworth, Reuben R. Springer, Col. George Ward Nichols, David Sinton, and others.