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Norton, Andrews

educator, clergy-copal clergyman of Alexandria, Va., who man, author, was born Dec. 31, 1786, in Hingham, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard university in 1819-30; and prominent among conservative theologians of his faith. He was the author of Historical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Tracts Concerning Christianity; and Reasons for Not Believing the Doctrines of the Trinitarians. He died Sept. 18, 1852, in Newport, R. I.

NORTON, AUGUSTUS THEODORE, clergyman, author, was born March 28, 1808, in Cornwall, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Alton, Ill., and the author of a History of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois. He died April 29, 1884, in Alton, Ill.

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