Norton, John Nicholas – Nourse, Joseph
Norton, John Nicholas
clergyman, author, was born in 1820, in Waterloo, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman of Louisville, among whose many works are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for Families; The King's Ferry Boat; and Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. He died Jan. 18, 1881, in Louisville, Ky.
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.
Norton, Nelson I
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 30, 1829, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. He was appointed a justice of the peace; was six years a county assessor; and five years a county supervisor. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1861; and was a presidential elector in 1872; and in 1875 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.
Norton, Richard Henry
lawyer,, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1849, in Troy, Mo. He has practiced law since 1870 in Troy, Mo. He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Norton, S. F
journalist. He is one of the oldest and ablest editors in the west; and the founder of the Chicago Sentinel.
Norton, Sidney Augustus
educator, author, was born Jan. 11, 1835, in Bloomfield, Ohio. He is a scientist who has been professor of chemistry in Ohio university from 1873; and is the author of Elements of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic Chemistry; and Organic Chemistry.
Norton, Thomas Herbert
scientist, author, was born June 30, 1851, in Rushford, N. Y. During 1878-85 he was manager of chemical works in Paris, France; and since 1883 has filled the chair of chemistry in the university of Cincinnati. He is the author of numerous researches in chemistry.
Norton, William Augustus
educator, author, was born Oct. 25, 1810, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. He was a professor of civil engineering in Sheffield Scientific school, Yale university, from 1852. He was the author of Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; and First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. His contributions to current publications on scientific subjects were highly valued. He died Sept. 21, 1883, in New Haven, Conn.
Norton, William Harmon
geologist, author, was born April 3, 1856, in Willoughby, Ohio. He is now special assistant of the Iowa state geological survey. He is the author of Artesian Wells of Iowa; and has written several scientific papers on geology and paleontology.
Norval, Theophilus L
lawyer, 1847, in Fulton county, Ill. In 1879 he jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 26 , was elected to the Nebraska state senate.
In 1883 he was appointed judge of the and filled that office continuously until sixth judicial district to fill a vacancy, elected in 1889 a judge of the supreme court. He has also held that office continuously since, serving one term as chief justice; and was re-elected in 1895 for the term expiring in 1902.
Norvell, John
journalist, state senator, was born in 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the editor of a newspaper in Philadelphia; and was subsequently appointed postmaster of Detroit, Mich. Having become identified with the territory of Michigan, he became one of the senators in congress from the new state, serving in that capacity from 1835 to 1841.
He died April 11, 1850, in Detroit, Mich.
Norwood, Hal L
lawyer, was born in 1871. He was admitted to the bar in 1893, and has attained success as a rising lawyer of Lockesburg, Ark., and has filled several positions of honor.
Norwood, Thomas Manson
lawyer, United States senator, congressman, was born April 26, 1830, in Talbot county, Ga. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He moved to Savannah in 1852; and was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1861 and 1862. He presidential elector in 1868; and was elected to the United States senate in 1871 for the term was a ending in 1877, serving on the committees on pensions, transportation, land claims, and revolutionary claims. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Norwood, William
soldier, lawyer, was born April 15, 1843, in Ireland. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1846; and received his education in Cincinnati and Eaton, Ohio. During 1861-65 he served gallantly as a soldier in the union army, and is now a prominent lawyer of Pittsburg, Pa.
Nothomb, Henry Ed
educator, poet, was born Oct. 10, 1865, near Rockford, Ill. He graduated in 1887 from the Iowa State normal school of Cedar Falls, with the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Didactics. He has attained success as an educator, and has been professor of rhetoric, literature and oratory in the Iowa institutes and the schools of a Illinois. He is the author of number of meritorious poems which have appeared in Poets of America and other standard collections.
Nott, Abraham
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1768, in Saybrook, Conn. In 1794 he settled on the Pacolet river, S. C., and continued the practice of his profession. He was a representative in congress from 1799 to 1801, when he was elected a judge of the court of appeals, and judge of the superior court. He died June 18, 1830, in Fairfield, S. C.
Nott, Charles Cooper
soldier; lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1827, in Schenectady, N. Y. He served as a captain of cavalry and also lieutenant-colonel and colonel of New York volunteers dur-- ing the rebellion. In 1865 he was appointed one of the judges of the court of claims in Washington.
Nott, Edward
governor, was born. in 1657. He was governor of Virginia from 1705 until his death. He died Aug; 23, 1706, in Williamsburg, Va.
Nott, Eliphalet
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 25,. 1773, in Ashford, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman. of note; and president of Union college in 1804-66, being president for nearly sixty years.
As a pulpit orator he will retain his celebrity by his sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton. He was the author of Counsels to Young Men; and Lectures on Temperance. He died Jan.. 29, 1866, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Nott, Josiah Clark
physician, author, was born March 24, 1804, in Columbia, S. C. He was a physician of Mobile, who wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was co-author with Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind; and of Indigenous Races of the Earth. He died March 31, 1873, in Mobile, Ala.
Nott, Samuel
clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 23, 1754, in Saybrook, Conn.
In 1781 he became pastor of the congregational church in Franklin, Conn., where he continued until his death, a period of seventy-one years. He died May 26, 1852, in Franklin, Conn.
Nott, Samuel
missionary, author, was born Sept. 11, 1788, in Franklin, Conn. He was pastor successively of churches in Galway, N. Y., and Wareham, Mass., and established at the latter place in 1849 a private academy, which he conducted successfully for seventeen years. His publications include Sixteen Years" Preaching and Procedure at Wareham; and Slavery and the Remedy. He died June 1, 1869, in Hartford, Conn.
Nourse, Amos
physician, educator, United States senator, was born Dec. 17, 1794, in Bolton, Mass. He was a medical lecturer at Bowdoin college from 1846, to 1854; and medical professor since 1854..
He was also postmaster of Hallowell, Maine; and collector of customs at Bath.
He was a senator in congress from Maine from January to March in 1857. He died April 17, 1877, in Bath, Maine.
Nourse, James Duncan
journalist, author, was born Sept. 26, 1817, in Bardstown, Ky. He was a journalist of St. Louis, and the author of The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the Mississippi; and God in History. He died June 1, 1854, in St. Louis, Mo.
Nourse, Joseph
soldier, public official, was born July 16, 1754, in England. He entered the revolutionary army in 1776, as secretary to General Charles Lee; was clerk and auditor of the board of war from 1777 until appointed assistant auditor-general in 1781; and was register of the United States treasury from 1789 to 1829. He was a vice-president of the American Bible society. He died Sept. 1, 1841, in Georgetown, D. C.