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528 NOBLE, James, senator, b. in Battletown, Fred- erick CO., Va., about 1790 ; cl. in Washington, D. C, 26 Feb., 1831. In his youth he removed to Ken- tucky with his family, and he subsequently settled in Indiana, educated himself, and became iniluen- tial in tlie politics of that state. He was one of the first U. S. senators from Indiana, serving from 12 Dec. 1816, until his death.

NOBLE, John Willock, lawyer, b. in Lancaster, Ohio, 26 Oct., 1831. He was educated at Miami university, Ohio, and at Yale, where he was graduated in 1851, studied law, and was city attorney of Keokuk, Iowa, in 1859-'60. He became 1st lieutenant and adjutant in the 3d Iowa cavalry in August, 1861, and took part in the battle of Athens, Mo., as a private before he was mustered into service. He became judge-advocate of the Army of the Southwest, and afterward of the Department of Missouri, took part in the battle of Pea Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and served under Gen. Andrew J. Smith against Forrest, and under Gen. James H. Wilson in Alabama and Georgia. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, 13 March, 1865, mustered out at Atlanta in August, and resumed the practice of law, serving as IJ. S. district attorney at St. Louis in 1867-'70, and receiving the thanks of Gen. Grant before the cabinet in 1869. He has won reputation in his profession, and has taken part in many important suits.

NOBLE, Louis Legrand, clergvman. b. in Lisbon, N. Y., 26 Sept., 1813 ; d. in Ionia, Mich., 6 Feb.. 1882. He was graduated at Bristol college, Pa., in 1837, and at the General theological semi- nary in Xew York city in 1840, was ordained dea- 3on, 28 June, 1840, by Bishop Benjamin T. Onder- donk, and priest, 4 June, 1841, by Bishop Ives. He was assistant minister in St. Peter's church, Al- banv, N. Y., in 1840. rector of Christ church, Elizabeth City, N. C, in 1841-'4, rector of St. Luke's church, Catskill, N. Y., in 1844. of Grace Church. Chicago, 111., in 1855. of the Church of the Messiah. Gfenn's Falls, X. Y., in 1856, of Trinity church, Fredonia, X. Y., in 1857, of Christ church, Hudson, X. Y., in 1859, and of St. John's church, Ionia, Mich., in 1880. In addition to parochial work, Mr. Xoble also served as professor of English and history in St. Stephen's college, Annandale, N. Y., being appointed in 1874. Besides shorter poems, he published " Xe-Ma-Min, an Indian Story," in three cantos (1852) ; " The Course of Empire, Voyage of Life, and other Pictures of Thomas Cole, X. A., with Selections from his Let- ters and Miscellaneous Writings, Illustrative of his Life, Character, and Genius" (Xew York, 1853); " The Lady Angeline, a Lay of the Appalachians ; the Hours, and other Poems" (1857); and "A Voyage to the Arctic Seas in Search of Icebergs, with Church, the Artist " (1861).

NOBLE, Patrick, governor of South Carolina, b. in Abbeville district, S. C, in 1787 ; d. there, 7 April, 1840. He was graduated at Princeton in 1806, studied law with John C. Calhoun, and was his partner after being admitted to the bar in 1809. He was elected to the state house of representatives in 1812, and was its speaker from 1818 till 1824, and again in 1832. In 1836 he was made president of the state senate, and he was governor of South Carolina from 1838 till 1840. He was a state-rights Democrat, and was popular with the masses.

NOBOA, Diego, South American statesman, b. in Guayaquil in''l789 ; d. there, 3 Xov., 1870. He studied law in Quito and afterward returned to Guayaquil, where he took part in the revolution of 9 Oct., 1820. The government appointed him treas- urer of the province, which post he retained when the latter was incorporated with Colombia as a de- partment. In 1827 he was elected intendant of Guayaquil, to oppose the dictatorship of Simon BciiVar, but, when the reaction in favor of the latter took place a few months afterward, Noboa was obliged to go into exile. He returned in 1830, when Ecuador was declared an independent repub- lic, and was appointed minister to Peru. After- ward he was elected senator of the republic, and later, by popular vote, member of the provisional government that was established in consequence of the revolution of 6 March, 1845, against Gen. Flores. In 1850 he was elected supreme chief of the republic, and afterward the national convention at Quito appointed him constitutional president of Ecuador. On 17 July, 1851, a military revolution overthrew his government and obliged him to go to Central America and Peru. In 1856 he returned to Guayaquil, where he died in retirement.

'''NOBOA. Manuel Vasquez de''', Chilian states- man, b. in Concepcion in 1783 ; d. in Santiago in 1855. In 1803 he was graduated in law, but, when in 1810 the war of independence began, he took part in it on the pati'iot side. At a popular meet- ing in Concepcion. to appoint a junta like that of Santiago, he was elected one of its members. When the Spanish expedition under Gen. Pareja (q. r.) landed in San Vicente. 26 March, 1812, the latter proposed to the junta a basis of arrangement by which they should recognize Ferdinand VII. No- boa, who presided over the junta, fearing that the members might be inclined to submit, refused to discuss the conditions, and left for the capital in quest of the army. At La Angostura he met Gen. Carrera, who marched against Concepcion, and Noboa took part in the campaign of the south as military judge. After the defeat of Rancagua he- emigrated with his family to the Argentine Repub- lic, where he met the rival generals O'Higgins and Carrera. When the two brothers Carrera were shot in Mendoza, Xoboa was their defender, for which act he was exiled to Buenos Ayres, where he suffered great poverty. Afterward he went to Montevideo, where he was appointed attorney- general of the province, but, fearing that the Spaniards would take possession of Montevideo again, he returned to Chili in 1819. On his arrival at Valparaiso he was imprisoned by order of the supreme director, and exiled to Peru, where he was appointed district attorney of Trujillo. He re- turned to Chili after the fall of O'Higgins, and, in consequence of the dissensions between the three provinces, was appointed a member of the commis- sion that promulgated the act of union of the prov- inces and the organic laws. During the govern- ment of Freire he formed part of the senate that passed the law for the abolition of slavery in Chili, 24 July, 1823, and in 1825 he was appointed min- ister of the supreme court of justice. He was deputy to the convention of 1828, and afterward councillor of state.

NOBREGA, Manoel de (no-bray-gah), b. in Portugal in 1517; d. in Brazil in 1570. He entered the Jesuit novitiate of Coimbra in 1544, and embarked for Brazil in 1549 at the head of a band of missionaries. After landing he endeavored to reform the Portuguese colonists, whose vices interfered with his success in converting the natives. Not succeeding in this, he set out alone and on foot to travel among the native tribes, many of whom were cannibals. He was the first Jesuit in America that attempted this task. He induced thousands of Indians to give up their roving life and to form Christian colonies, where they were gradually trained to habits of industry. Even in his old age