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Nuttall, Thomas – Nystrom, John William

Nuttall, Thomas

ornithologist, author, was born in 1786 in England. He was a noted ornithologist and botanist of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the United States, but who returned to Englanu in 1842. He was the author of The Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada. He died in 1859.

Nutting, Newton W

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1840, in Oswego county, N. Y. He was school commissioner for four years; was district attorney of Oswego county from 1869 to 1872; and was county judge from January, 1878, to March, 1883. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress; and was elected. to the fiftieth congress as a republican.

Nye, Edgar Wilson

journalist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1850, in Shirley, Maine. He was the author of Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye's Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye's Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; and Comic History of England. He died in 1896.

Nye, Mortimer

lawyer, lieutenantgovernor, was born Nov. 12, 1838, in Wadsworth, Ohio. He has gained prominence as an astute lawyer in La Porte, Ind., of which city he was mayor for four terms. In 1884 he was presidential elector; and four years ending January, 1897, he served with distinction as lieutenant-governor of Indiana.

Nygren, John L

mechanic, was born Dec. 20, 1863, in Sweden. He is a successful mechanic of Tacoma, Wash.; and the inventor of various improvements in mechanics.

Nystrom, John William

civil engineer, author. He was an engineer in the United States navy, and the author of Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; and Treatise on Screw Propellers. He died in 1885.