Nevin, Edwin Henry – Newcomb, Simon
Nevin, Edwin Henry
clergyman, author, poet, was born May 9, 1814, in Shippensburg, Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The City of God; Humanity and Its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; and The Minister's Handbook.
Nevin, George Balch
composer, author, was born March 15, 1859, in Shippensburg, Pa. He is the author of The Hills of God; At the Cross; and the Minster Song.
Nevin, John Williamson
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 20, 1803, near Strasburg, Pa. He was an eminent German reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pa., and president of Franklin and Marshall college in 1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian at Mercersburg, and his works form the basis of what is styled the Mercersburg Theology. He was the author of History and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The Anxious Bench; and Biblical Antiquities.
He died June 6, 1886, in Lancaster, Pa.
Nevin, Robert Jenkins
soldier, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1839, in Allegheny, Pa. In 1861-65 he served in the civil war, rising to the rank of captain and brevet major. Since 1869 he has been rector of St. Paul's American church in Rome, Italy, which he built.
He is the author of Reunion Conferences at Bonn; and St. Paul's within the Walls.
Nevin, William Channing
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1844, in New Athens, Ohio. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of History of All Religions; Life of Albert Barnes; The Blue Ray of Sunlight; A Slight Misunderstanding; A Wild Goose Chase; In the Nick of Time; Joshua Whitcomb's Tribulations; and A Summer School Adventure.
Nevin, William Wilberforce
journalist, author, was born March 1, 1836, in Allegheny, Pa. He is a journalist and railway director of Philadelphia who has published Vignettes of Travel.
Nevins, William
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 13, 1797, in Norwich, Conn.
He was a presbyterian minister of Baltimore; and the author of Thoughts on Popery; Practical Thoughts; and Select Remains, with Memoir. He died Sept. 14, 1835, in Baltimore, Md.
NEVIUS, MRS. HELEN S. [COAN], author, was born in 1832 in New York.
She is the author of Catechism of Christian Doctrine, in Chinese; Our Life in China; and Life of J. L. Nevius.
Nevius, John Livingston
missionary, author, was born in 1829 in New York. He was a presbyterian missionary in Ningpo; and the author of China and the Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the Methods of Missionary Work; Hills; Demon Possession; and a number of works in Chinese. He died in 1893. a
New, Anthony
congressman, was born in 1747 in Gloucester county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1805. On taking up his residence in Kentucky he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813, from 1817 to 1818, and from 1821 to 1823. He died March 2, 1833, in Elkton, Ky. +
New, John Chalfant
lawyer, state senator, was born July 6, 1831, in Vernon, Ind. In 1861 he was appointed quartermaster-general of Indiana, serving as such until elected to the state senate. In 1865 he was elected cashier of the First National bank of Indianapolis, serving as such until appointed in 1875 as treasurer of the United States. He was assistant secretary of the United States treasury from 1882 to 1884; and during 1889-93 was consul-general of the United States at London, England. was
Newbegin, Henry
lawyer, born May 2, 1833, in Pownel, Maine. In 1857 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and since 1886 has been overseer of that institution. For twelve years he was general counsel of the Chicago division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; has been local counsel for the Wabash railroad since 1870; and since 1882 has had considerable practice in the supreme court of the United States. He has a large practice in Defiance, Ohio; and takes an active part in republican politics.
Newberry, John Stoughton
manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1826, in Waterville, N. Y.
In 1864 he engaged largely in manufacturing enterprises in Detroit, Mich. He was elected as a representative from Michigan to the forty-sixth congress as a republican. He died Jan. 2, 1887, in Detroit, Mich.
Newberry, John Strong
geologist, educator, author, was born Dec. 22, 1822, in Windsor, Conn. He was a geologist who was professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia college in 1866-92, and state geologist of Ohio from 1869. He published nine volumes of reports relating to the geological survey of Ohio; and Paleozoic Fishes of North America, and many scientific papers. He died in 1892.
Newberry, Walter C
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1835, in Sangerfield, N. Y. He served during the war in volunteer armies of the United States as private, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general by brevet. He elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. was NEWBERRY, WALTER LOOMIS, merchant, philanthropist, was born Sept. 18, 1804, in East Windsor, Conn. He was one of the founders of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company's bank of Chicago; and president of the Galena railroad, now the great Northwestern railroad. In 1841 he was active in founding the Young Men's Library association of Chicago, and was its first president. He visited Europe in 1868, and died on his homeward voyage on Nov. 6. He left nearly two million dollars to found a library, to be named for him, and located in the north division of Chicago, which is now consummated, the famous Newberry library, one of the finest institutions in America.
Newbold, Joshua G
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born May 12, 1830, in Fayette county, Pa.
In 1862 he entered the union army as captain of the twenty-fifth regiment of Iowa volunteers; served as judge advocate, with headquarters at Woodville, Ala. He was elected a representative in the elected district thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and
New, Jeptha D
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1830, in Vernon, Ind. He was elected district prosecuting attorney of Indiana in 1862, and served two years. He was elected judge of common pleas in 1864, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. eighteenth general assemblies of the state of Iowa. In 1876 he was elected lieutenant-governor; and was governor of Iowa in 1877 and 1878. He held a number of county offices, and practiced law at Mt.
Pleasant.
Newbold, Thomas
state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1807 to 1813, after which he served in the legislature of that state. He died in December, 1823, in Burlington county, N. J.
Newbury, Samuel
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 3, 1803, in Panton, Vt. He organized and was pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, Ind. He was president of Wabash college.
Newbury, Samuel Sergeant
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 8, 1835, in Indianapolis. He practiced his profession with success in Dubuque, Iowa, and Detroit, Mich. During the civil war he went to the front to help Gen. Meade, and was killed at the taking of Welden railroad in 1864.
Newby, W. E
journalist, was born April 27, 1865, in Greensboro, Ind. He has been connected with the Indianapolis Journal, the Springfield Republic-Times; for many years was editor of the Rushville Graphic; and is now the editor and owner of The Sun of Knightstown, Ind.
He was appointed consul-general to Paris by President McKinley; and has filled numerous other positions of trust.
Newcomb, C. A
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born July 1, 1830, in Mercer county, Pa. He removed to Iowa, and was a circuit judge for two years; and judge of a county court for three years. He settled in Missouri, and was elected for two years to the legislature of that state. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortieth congress.
Newcomb, Harvey
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 2, 1803, in Thetford, Vt. He was a congregational clergyman of western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young Lady's Guide; How to Be a Man; How to Be a Lady; and Manners and Customs of North American Indians.
He died Aug. 30, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Newcomb, Horatio Victor
railroad president, banker, was born July 26, 1844, in Louisville, Ky. Upon the death of the senior Newcomb, Aug. 24, 1874, he entered upon a short but extremely successful career as a railroad man. Having been elected a director of the railroad company, little later he became vice-president and then president.
To the development of the Louisville and a Nashville railroad as a property, the new officer devoted a vast amount of labor and untiring energy and contributed largely to make the system the great property it is to-day. In 1880 he removed to New York city and organized the United States National bank, of which the stockholders elected him president.
Newcomb, Simon
astronomer, educator, author, was born March 12, 1835, in Wallace, N. S. He is an astronomer of distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the navy department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics at Johns Hopkins university in 1884-93. He is the author of Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy; Geometry; Analytic Geometry; Essentials of Trigonometry; Calculus; A Plain Man's Talk on the Labor Question; Principles of Political Economy; and The A. B, C, of Finance.