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Norton, John Pitkin

educator, chemist, was born July 19, 1822, in Albany, N. Y. He was made first professor of agricultural chemistry and of vegetable and animal physiology in Yale; and entered on the active duties of his chair in the autumn of 1847, and continued there until his death. He died Sept. 5, 1852, in Farmington, Conn.

NORTON, MRS. MINERVA [BRACE], author, was born in 1837 in New York.

She is an educator of Beloit, Wis., and the author of In and Around Berlin; and Service in the King's Gardens.