Nourse, Joseph Everett – Nye, Mortimer
Nourse, Joseph Everett
educator, author, was born April 17, 1819, in Washington, D. C. He was a professor in the naval academy in 1850-81; and the author of Astronomical and Meteorological Observations; and American Explorations in the Ice Zones.
Novell, Winslow A
journalist, manufacturer, public official, was born Jan. 31, 1840, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was an alderman of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1872; commissioner of public works in 1873-76; and postmaster of Milwaukee during 1889-93. For many years he has been chief clerk of the assembly of the Wisconsin state legislature.
Novy, Frederick George
educator, author, was born Dec. 9, 1864, in Chicago, Ill. He fills the chair of hygiene and physiological chemistry in the university of Michigan. He is the author of works on bacteriology, physiological chemistry, and has contributed valuable papers to American and foreign journals.
Nowlin, Samuel Henry
soldier, journalist, public official, was born April 11, 1844, in Stewartsville, Va. At the age of seventeen he entered the confederate army, and served through the entire war.
For three terms he was a mayor of Salem, Va., in which city he conducted a drug business for ten years. In 1877 he moved to Arkansas; was commissioner in charge of state exhibits made by Arkansas at the Louisville exposition of 1883; was general manager of the State exposition at Little Rock in 1887; and during 1884-88 he was state statistician for the United States department of agriculture. He was the founder of the American Horticultural society in 1879-80; and during 1894-98 was president of the Arkansas State Horticultural society. In 1878-82 he edited Spirit of Arkansas; edited the Rural Southwest in 1882-85; edited the Arkansas Farmer in 1889-94; and since 1894 has been engaged in encyclopedic work.
Noyes, Arthur Ames
educator, author, was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
Noyes, Charles Henry
lawyer, author, poet, was born in 1849 in Michigan. He is a lawyer and poet of Warren, Pa., who has published Studies in Verse.
Noyes, Crosby Stuart
journalist, was born Feb. 16, 1825, in Minot, Maine. In 1867 he became editor-in-chief of the Washington Star, wnich position he still fills.
Noyes, Edward Follensbee
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Oct. 3, 1832, in Haverhill, Mass. In 1861 he entered the union army as major of the thirty-ninth regiment Onio volunteer infantry; and was subsequently brevetted a brigadier-general. In 1867 he was elected probate judge of Hamilton county, Ohio, for a term of three years. In 1871 he was elected governor of Ohio. In 1877 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to France. He died Sept. 4, 1890, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Noyes, George Rapall
clergyman, author, was born March 6, 1798, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard university since 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation of the New Testament. He died June 3, 1868, in Cambridge, Mass.
Noyes, Henry Drury
ophthalmologist, author, was born in 1832 in New York. He is an ophthalmologist of New York city; and the author of Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; and Text Book on Diseases of the Eye.
Noyes, James
clergyman, author, was born in 1608, in England. He was a puritan clergyman of Newbury, Mass., pastor of the church there in 1635-56, and the author of The Temple Measured; and Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State. He died Oct. 22, 1656, in Newbury, Mass.
Noyes, James Oscar
physician, journalist, author, was born June 14, 1829, in Niles, N. Y. He was a physician and journalist of New Orleans, and the author of Roumania; and The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner of Life. He died Sept. 11, 1872, in New Orleans, La.
Noyes, John
congressman, was born in 1763. He was elected a representative in congress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1841.
Noyes, John Humphrey
author, was born Sept. 6, 1811, in Brattleborough, Vt. He was a noted religionist who founded the Oneida community, and other associations of socialists. He was the author of The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith; History of American Socialisms; and House Talks. He died April 13, 1886, in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Noyes, Joseph C
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1798, in Portland, Maine. He was a member of the state legislature in 1833; and a representauve in congress from Maine from 1837 to 1839. He was collector of the Passamaquoddy district from 1841 to 1843; and was subsequently treasurer of a Portland savings bank. He died July 21, 1868, in Portland, Maine.
Noyes, Stephen Butterick
librarian, was born Aug. 28, 1833, in Brookfield, Mass. In 1857 he was in charge of the Athenæum library, out of which grew the Mercantile library, and subsequently the Brooklyn library. He was congressional librarian in Washington in 1866-68, but in the next year returned to his post at the Brooklyn library, where he labored for ten years in the preparation of its catalogue. He died March 8, 1885, in Deland, Fla.
Noyes, William Albert
educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1857, in Independence, Iowa. He has filled the chair of chemistry in the university of Tennessee, and since 1896 in the Rose Polytechnic Institute of Terre Haute, Ind. He is the author of a work entitled Qualitative Analysis, and another entitled Organic Chemistry for the Laboratory.
Nuckolls, Stephen F
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1825, in Grayson county, Va. He was one of the founders of Nebraska City; and was a member of the legislature in 1859. In 1860 he went to Colorado territory, and engaged in mining. From 1864 to 1867 he resided in New York city. He settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming territory, in 1867; and upon the organization of Wyoming territory in 1869 he was elected a delegate to the forty-first congress.
Nuckolls, William C
lawyer, congressman, was born in South Carolina.
He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1827 to 1833.
Nugen, Robert H
congressman, was born in 1809, in Wasnington county, Pa. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress.
Nunn, David A
state senator, congressman, was born July 26, 1832, in Haywood county, Tenn. In 1863 he was elected to the Tennessee state senate; in 1865 to the state house of representatives; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the fortieth and forty-third congresses.
Nunnally, Gustavus Alonzo
college president, was born March 24, 1841, in Walton county, ua. From 1890-- 93 he was presiden. of Mercer university.
Nute, Alonzo
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1826, in Milton, N. H. In 1861. he entered the union army in the sixth New Hampshire volunteers and served until incapacitated for duty on the staffs. of Generals Griffin and Rush Hawkins.
He was elected a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1866; and of the state senate for 1867-68.
He was elected to the fifty-first congress. as a republican.
Nutt, William
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 5, 1836, in Topsham, Vt. During the civil war he served with. distinction and was rapidly promoted until he was brevetted colonel of volunteers. During 1871-72 he served two. terms in the general court of Massachusetts. He was trial justice of Natick, Mass., for six years; and is now a successful lawyer of that city. He has filled all the important offices in his city and county in the gift of the people.
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, James Warren
lawyer, United States senator, was born June 10, 1814, in De Ruyter, N. Y. In 1861 he was. appointed governor of Nevada territory, in which position he continued until the adoption of the state constitution, when he was chosen a senator in congress from. the new state for the term commencing in 1865 and ending in 1867. In 1867 he was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1873. He died Dec. 25, 1876, in White Plains, N. Y.
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.