Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice – Norcross, Amasa
Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice
(MAT- THEWS), author, was born in England.
She was a writer on domestic science whose home was at Plainfield, N. J., and was the author of Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop's Family; and Progressive Housekeeping. She died in 1889.
Niven, Archibald C
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847; and a member of the state legislature in 1864.
Nixon, John
soldier, was born March 4, 1725, in Framingham, Mass.
He was appointed brigadier-general in 1776, and intrusted with the command of Governor's Island, New York harbor. He died March 24, 1815, in Middlebury, Vt.
Nixon, John Thompson
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1820, in Fairton, N. J. He served in the New Jersey legislature from 1848 to 1850, during the last year as speaker. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1870 was appointed United States judge for the district of New Jersey. He died Sept. 28, 1889, in Stockbridge, Mass.
Noah, Mordecai Manuel
journalist, author, was born July 14, 1785, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a once noted journalist of New York city, who endeavored unsuccessfully to found a Jewish colony on Grand Island, in the Niagara river. He was the author of Travels in England, France and Spain; Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote several successful plays, among which are, The Siege of Tripoli; and The Fortress of Sorrente. He died May 22, 1851, in New York city.
Noatman, Franklin S
poet, was born July 31, 1858, in Wethersfield, N. Y.
He is the author of numerous hymns and religious poems, and has published work entitled Glimpses of the New Jerusalem. He is known in his native state as the Bard of North Java. a
Noble, Annette Lucile
author, was born July 12, 1844, in Albion, N. Y.
She is a fiction writer of Albion, N. Y., among whose works are Uncle Jack's Executors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love and Shawl-Straps; After the Failure; and The Silent Man's Legacy.
Noble, Calista
educator, poet, was born Jan. 11, 1835, in Crawford county, Pa. After receiving a liberal education, she became a school teacher, and has attained success as an educator. She has written both prose and verse for the periodical press, and some of her poems have been included in several national collections.
Noble, David A
lawyer, congressman, was born in Massachusetts. On moving to Michigan, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Noble, Edmund
journalist, author.
He is a journalist who traveled in Russia in 1882-84, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. He is the author of The Russian Revolt.
Noble, James
state senator, was born about 1790 in Battletown, Va. He was a senator in congress from Indiana from 1816 to 1831. He died Feb. 26, 1831, in Washington, D. C.
Noble, John Willock
lawyer, soldier, was born Oct. 26, 1831, in Lancaster, Ohio. He served two years as city attorney of Keokuk, Iowa. He entered the service as first lieutenant in 1862, and was brevetted brigadier-general for distinguished and meritorious services in the field. He was appointed United States district attorney for eastern Missouri in 1867, which office he resigned in 1870. He was appointed secretary of the interior in 1889.
Noble, Louis Legrand
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1813, in Lisbon, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the state of New York; and the author of Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; and A Voyage to the Arctic Seas. He died Feb. 6, 1882, in Ionia, Mich.
Noble, Patrick
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born in 1787 in Abbeville district, S. C. He was a state representative from South Carolina in 1812; was speaker from 1818 to 1824, and again from 1832. In 1836 he was president of the state senate, and was governor from 1838 to 1840. He died April 7, 1840, in Abbeville, S. C.
Noble, Thomas Satterwhite
artist, was born May 29, 1835, in Lexington, Ky. He studied art in Paris, and has attained success as a painter of history, genre and portraiture. In 1865 he exhibited his first important canvas, The Slave Market; in 1866 he exhibited Margaret Garner, a tragedy from real life; and in 1867 he painted The Price of Blood, a successful picture depicting slave life. In 1868 he was elected to fill the chair of fine arts in the university of Cincinnati, the art department of. which institution in 1884 was transferred to the Cincinnati Museum association, of which Mr. Noble is still the presiding officer. Other of his works are: John Brown; Witchill; Forgiven; and other subject pictures; and his principal portraits are of Joseph Longworth, Reuben R. Springer, Col. George Ward Nichols, David Sinton, and others.
Noble, Warren P
lawyer, legislator, was born June 14, 1820, near Berwick, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Ohio, and graduated from the academy of John McGreggor in Wadsworth, Ohio. He then taught in the public schools of Fostoria, and had for his pupils Hon. Charles Foster, Judge Lawrence and Judge Caplee. Since 1843 he has been engaged in the practice of law, and has become one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Tiffin.
He served two terms in the house of representatives of Ohio, and was twice elected prosecuting attorney of his county. During 1861-65 he served with distinction as a member of congress. He was one of the organizers of the Ohio State university; was a director of the railroad from Tiffin to Toledo; and for many years was president of the Commercial bank of Tiffin, of which he is now vicepresident.
Noble, William H
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 in New York. He served three years in the assembly of that state from Cayuga county, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. He died Feb. 5, 1850, in Rochester.
Noel, Edmond Favor
lawyer, legislator, was born March 4, 1856, near Lexington, Miss. During 1882-84 he was a member of the Mississippi state legislature; and in 1896 he was elected a member of the state senate for four years. He is an able lawyer of Lexington, Miss., and during 1887-91 served with distinction as district attorney.
Noell, John W
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1816, in Bradford county, Va. He served four years in the state senate of Missouri. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He died March 14, 1863, in Washington.
Noell, Thomas E
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 3, 1839, in Perryville, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirtyninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth congress. He died Oct. 3, 1867, in St. Louis.
Nokes, Sylvester D
soldier, farmer, politician, was born Feb. 11, 1835, in Franklin county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted in company E, one hundred and nineteenth Illinois volunteer infantry; he was mustered in as second lieutenant, and was subsequently promoted to captain. He is a successful farmer of Brown county, Ill.; is prominent in the political affairs of his county and state; and has filled a number of important public offices.
Nolan, Daniel M
merchant, poet, was born June 17, 1842, in Ireland. He emigrated to America in 1865, and is now a successful merchant of Haverhill, Mass., and is known in New England as the Grocer-Poet. He has written extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press, and is the author of a volume of his collected poems, which contain wit, humor and pathos.
Nolan, Michael N
manufacturer, congressman, was born in May, 1834, in Ireland. He was elected mayor of the city of Albany, N. Y., in 1878, re-elected in 1880, and again re-elected in 1882, while serving as a member of congress. He was elected to the forty-seventh congress as a democrat.
Nolen, James Theodore
educator, college president, was born April 22, 1863, in Franklin, N. C. He attended the Emory and Henry college, Virginia, and the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn. This successful educator has been principal of the Williston academy, Tennessee, and is now president of the Florida Conference college of Leesburg, Fla.
Noon, Alonzo Arthur
railroad president, was born June 28, 1837, in England. He has been president of the Salt Lake and Mercur Railroad company since its organization.
Noonan, George H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He practiced law in Texas until elected judge of the district court in 1862, and has held the office of judge continuously from that 'time to the present. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Norcross, Amasa
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1824, in Rindge, N. H. He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1858, 1859 and 1862; was assessor of internal revenue from 1862 to 1873, and was mayor of Fitchburg in 1873 and 1874. He was a state senator in 1874; and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
He is president of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance company and other institutions,