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Northern, William J

state senator, governor, was born July 9, 1835, in Jones county, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1877 and 1878; in 1880-81 he was a member of the state senate, and in 1890 was elected governor of Georgia.

Northrop, Birdsey Grant

educator, author, was born in 1817 in Connecticut. He is a prominent Connecticut educator, secretary of the state board of education in 1869-82; and the author of Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; and Tree-Planting.

Norton, Frank Henry

journalist, author, was born March 20, 1836, in Hingham, Mass. He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; and Daniel Boone, a romance.

Norton, Frederick Calvin

journalist, author, was born March 24, 1873, in Guilford, Conn. He received a liberal education, and has since been engaged in journalism. He is the editor of the Echo of Guilford, Conn.; and the author of The History of Christ Church; Lives of the Governors of Connecticut; and other works.

Norton, George Habley

clergyman, author, was born May 7, 1824, in Ontario county, N. Y. He was an epispublished Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church. He died in 1893.

Norton, Charles Ledyard

journalist, author, was born June 11, 1837, in Farmington, Conn. He is a journalist of New York city; since 1893 editor of Outing; and the author of Handbook of Florida; Political Americanisms; Jack Benson's Log; and A Medal of Honor Man, a book for boys.

Norton, Ebenezer F

state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served in the state assembly from Erie county in 1823; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.

Norton, Elijah H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1821, in Logan county, Ky. In 1852 he was chosen a judge of the circuit court of Missouri; and was re-elected to the same position in

Norton, George Pierce

lawyer, was born Nov. 19, 1872, in Dover, N. H.

He graduated from the law department of the Columbia college of New York city; and has attained success as an able lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.

Norton, Herman

evangelist, author, was born July 2, 1799, in New Hartford, N. Y. He was a presbyterian evangelist in New York state, and the author of The Christian and Deist in Contrast; Signs of Danger and Promise; and Startling Facts for American Protestants. He died Nov. 20, 1850, in Hartford, N. Y.

Norton, James Albert

soldier, physician, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1843, in Seneca county, Ohio. He served six years in the Ohio house of representatives from 1873 to 1879; and was speaker pro tempore of that body for two years. He was appointed commissioner of railroads and telegraphs; and resigned to accept a position in railroad service. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Norton, Jesse O

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Vermont. In 1847 he was a member of the Illinois state constitutional convention; and was a member of the state legislature in 1851 and 1852. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. In 1857 he was elected judge of the eleventh judicial district of Illinois, holding the office until 1862. In 1863 he was again elected a representative in congress.