Northway, Stephen A – Norton, John Dudley
Northway, Stephen A
lawyer, congressman, was born June 19, 1833, in Christian Hollow, N. Y. In 1861 he was elected prosecuting attorney and located in Jefferson, Ohio, where he resided and practiced law until his death. In 1863 he was re-elected prosecuting attorney. In 1865 he was elected to the state house of representatives and served two years. He was elected to the fifty-third congress; was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He died Sept. 8, 1898, in Jefferson, Ohio. 1857. After resigning the judgeship in 1860 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress.
Norton, Frank Henry
journalist, author, was born March 20, 1836, in Hingham, Mass. He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; and Daniel Boone, a romance.
Norton, Frederick Calvin
journalist, author, was born March 24, 1873, in Guilford, Conn. He received a liberal education, and has since been engaged in journalism. He is the editor of the Echo of Guilford, Conn.; and the author of The History of Christ Church; Lives of the Governors of Connecticut; and other works.
Norton, George Habley
clergyman, author, was born May 7, 1824, in Ontario county, N. Y. He was an epispublished Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church. He died in 1893.
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.
Norton, Charles Eliot
educator, author, was born Nov. 16, 1827, in Cam- He is a distinguished bridge, Mass.
Dante scholar and a high authority on the history of art, and since 1875 professor of the history of art in Harvard university. He has edited the Letters of J. R. Lowell; the Writings of G. W. Curtis; the Goethe and Carlyle Correspondence; the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated Dante's Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia. His other works include, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in Italy; and Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories.
Norton, Charles Ledyard
journalist, author, was born June 11, 1837, in Farmington, Conn. He is a journalist of New York city; since 1893 editor of Outing; and the author of Handbook of Florida; Political Americanisms; Jack Benson's Log; and A Medal of Honor Man, a book for boys.
Norton, Daniel Sheldon
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born April 12, 1829, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected to the Minnesota state senate, declining reelection in 1859; and was again re-elected in 1860, and also in 1863 and 1864, having been a member of the state house of representatives in 1862. In 1865 he took his seat as a senator in congress from Minnesota for the term ending in 1871. He died July 14, 1870, in Washington, D. C.
Norton, Ebenezer F
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served in the state assembly from Erie county in 1823; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.
Norton, Elijah H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1821, in Logan county, Ky. In 1852 he was chosen a judge of the circuit court of Missouri; and was re-elected to the same position in
Norton, George Pierce
lawyer, was born Nov. 19, 1872, in Dover, N. H.
He graduated from the law department of the Columbia college of New York city; and has attained success as an able lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.
Norton, Herman
evangelist, author, was born July 2, 1799, in New Hartford, N. Y. He was a presbyterian evangelist in New York state, and the author of The Christian and Deist in Contrast; Signs of Danger and Promise; and Startling Facts for American Protestants. He died Nov. 20, 1850, in Hartford, N. Y.
Norton, James
educator, jurist, public official, was born Sept. 9, 1833, in Hiram, Ohio. He was the son of a carpenter, and was disabled by an accident in 1845. In 1851 he began school teaching at Hiram, Ohio, the same term as did A. Garfield. teaching for several years he was elected county recorder of Portage county in 1861; was re-elected and served six years James After school in all, residing in the county seat of Ravenna. In 1867 he returned to Garrettsville, which has ever since been his home. He was one of the founders of a bank in Garrettsville, and was its cashier. He subsequently became superintendent of the Garrettsville schools; was mayor of his city two terms; has been a member of the board of education for seven terms of three years each; was clerk of the board for twenty years; and for many terms served with distinction as a justice of the peace.
His son, James Edgar, was born March 18, 1866, in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1873 he Ohio. commenced his course in the Garrettsville schools schools and completed the course when sixteen years old. The subject of his oration at graduation was The Heirs of the Ages; suggested by Tennyson's Poets of Locks Hall. In 1884 he was examined by the county board of school examiners and received a certificate for three years. As he was hastening to his rooms in the Garfield House he slipped and fell against the east corner of the upper step, and died from his injuries on May 3, 1887.
Norton, James
farmer, legislator, member of congress, was born Oct. 8, 1843, in Marion county, S. C. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and graduated from the Crouchatow academy. In 1870-72 he was school commissioner of his native county; in 1886-87, and 1890-92 he served with distinction as a member of the South Carolina house of representatives; and in 1894 was elected comptroller general of his state, receiving the re-election in 1896.
In 1897 he resigned that position to serve in the fifty-fifth congress of the United States. He is a successful farmer of Mullins, S. C.
Norton, James Albert
soldier, physician, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1843, in Seneca county, Ohio. He served six years in the Ohio house of representatives from 1873 to 1879; and was speaker pro tempore of that body for two years. He was appointed commissioner of railroads and telegraphs; and resigned to accept a position in railroad service. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Norton, Jesse O
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Vermont. In 1847 he was a member of the Illinois state constitutional convention; and was a member of the state legislature in 1851 and 1852. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. In 1857 he was elected judge of the eleventh judicial district of Illinois, holding the office until 1862. In 1863 he was again elected a representative in congress.
Norton, John
clergyman, author, was born May 6, 1606, in England. He was a puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of the church at Boston. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; and Life of Mr. John Cotton. died April 5, 1663, in Boston, Mass.
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Norton, John
clergyman, poet, was born in 1651, in Ipswich, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at Hingham in 1678-1716, and is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet, a poem of some force and merit. He died in 1716.
Norton, John Dudley
lumber merchant, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Van Buren, N. Y. His early life was spent on a farm .
Prior to entering college he attended the Eldridge academy, and the Cortland academy. In 1867 he graduated from the Hamilton college of Clinton, N.Y. He then moved west and in 1868 became largely interested in Michigan pine lands, and an made Pontiac his home. In 1874 and 10.6 he was elected on the democratic ticket from Oakland county to the Michigan state legislature. In 1876 he was a delegate to the national democratic convention; subsequently was a candidate for state treasurer; and always took active part in political affairs. He was a charter member of the First National bank, now known as the First Commercial bank of Pontiac. From 1883 he was the treasurer of the Eastern Michigan Insane Asylum; and was a strong financial supporter of the Michigan Military academy of Orchard Lake. He died March 21, 1895.