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Rh state senate in 1861-’2, and since 1880 has been president of the Essex bar association. He has published numerous magazine articles and ad- dresses and speeches, and a volume of " Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects " (Salem, 18(3!)).

NORTHROP, Cyrus, educator, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 30 Sept., 1884. He was graduated at Yale in 1857, and at the law-school in 1859, and in 1861-'3 was clerk, first of the Connecticut house of representatives, and then of the senate. He was professor of rhetoric and English literature in Yale from 1863 till 1884, when he became president of the University of Minnesota. From 1869 till 1881 Prof. Northrop was collector of the port of New Haven. He has delivered many addresses, of which a dozen or more have been published.

NORTHROP, Harry Pinckney, R. C. bishop, b. in Charleston, S. C, 5 May, 1842. He began his classical studies at Georgetown college, D. C, but his health failed, and he was removed to Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, Md., where he was graduated in 1860. The same year he entered the theological seminary there, and after studying four years went to Rome and entered the American col- lege. He was ordained priest in Rome in June, 1865. On his return to the United States he was for several months attached to the Church of •the Nativity in New York. In 1866 he went to Charles- ton, S. C., and was stationed at St. Joseph's church for one year as assistant pastor. In 1868 he volun- teered for the missions in North Carolina, and was four years at New Berne in that state. Again re- turning to Charleston, he was for six years assist- ant pastor of the pro-cathedral and pastor of Sul- livan's island. His next charge was St. Patrick's church, Charleston, of which he was pastor for one year. He was raised to the episcopate on 8 Jan., 1882, as vicar-apostolic of North Carolina, receiving the title of bishop of Rosalia. He was consecrated in the cathedral of Baltimore by Archbishop Gib- bons. By papal brief of 27 Jan., 1883, he was trans- ferred to the see of Charleston, S. C, retaining the administration of the vicariate of North Carolina. He was present at the third plenary council of Baltimore in 1884.

NORTHROP, Lucius Bellinger, soldier, b. in Charleston, S. C, 8 Sept., 1811 ; d. in Pikesville, Md., 9 Feb., 1894. He was graduated at the U. S. mili- tary academy in 1829, and appointed 2d lieutenant of dragoons and stationed at Fort Gibson and other places in the west for eight years. He was severe- ly wounded while following an Indian trail, and returned to Charleston on sick-leave, never resum- ing active service, fie studied medicine at Jeffer- son college, Philadelphia, and on his return to Charleston practised occasionally for charity only. The war department, having been informed that he was practising medicine, dropped him from the army, but when Jefferson Davis became secretary of war he not only reinstated him, but promoted him to the rank of captain with full pay. When South Carolina seceded he was among the first to resign his commission, and when a provisional government was established at Montgomery, Ala., Jefferson Davis offered him the place of commis- sary-general, which, after declining twice, he ac- cepted at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Davis, who had been his classmate at West Point and his friend ever since. When Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy he removed to that city and remained at the head of the commissary de- partment until within a few weeks of the fall of the Confederacy. It is related that, after the first battle of Bull Run, on being requested to make some provision for feeding the prisoners then in Libby prison, he replied : " I know nothing of Yan- kee prisoners : throw them all into the James river," and subsequently did all in his power to thwart the efforts of those who were humanely laboring to render the subsistence received by the prisoners less precarious. By the spring of 1864 Northrop had succeeded in having a law passed abolishing the office of commissary of prisons, thus leaving the whole matter of providing food for them in his own hands. " From this date," says Edward A. Pollard in his "Secret History of the Confed- eracy," " whatever there was of distress for food among the pi'isoners is to be properly and dis- tinctly charged to one man in the Confederacy, Northrop." tie was referred to in the Confederate congress as " a certain commissary-general who is a curse to our country," " and has attempted to starve the prisoners in our hands." Senator Orr, of South Carolina, with the aid of several congress- men, attempted to procure his removal from office, but was defeated by the opposition of Jefferson Davis, whose " affection for Northrop " is declared by Mr. Pollard to be " grotesque, inexplicable, in- sane." After the fall of Richmond, Northrop retired to North Carolina and engaged in farming, but in July, 1865, he was arrested by the National authori- ties and confined in Richmond until the following November, when he was released. He then bought a farm near Charlottesville, Va., upon which he afterward resided. He died in a soldiers' home.

NORTHRUP, Ansel Judd, author, b. in Smith- field, Madison co., N. Y., 30 June, 1833. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1858, studied in Columbia law-school, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, since which time he has practised his pro- fession in Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1883 he has been county judge for Onondaga county. He has pub- lished " Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks, and Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan" (Syracuse, 1880), and " Sconset Cottage Life " (New York, 1881). He has in preparation (1888) a gene- alogy of the Northrup family.

NORTHRUP, George Washington, educator, b. in Antwerp. Jefferson co., N. Y., 15 Oct., 1826. Pie was graduated at Williams in 1854, and at Rochester theological seminary in 1857. In 1858 he was called to the professorship of church history in the Rochester seminary, and in 1867 he became president of Chicago Baptist theological semi- nary, Morgan Park. He was early ordained to the Baptist ministry, and has attained note as a preacher. He received the degree of D. D. from Rochester in 1864, and that of LL. D. from Kala- mazoo college in 1879.

NORTHRUP, Jeremiah, Canadian senator, b. in Falmouth, N. S., in 1815. He is descended from Jeremiah Northrup, a loyalist, who went to Nova Scotia from the United States at the close of the Revolution and represented Falmouth in the first provincial parliament that sat in Nova Scotia for twenty-five years until his death. Jeremiah was educated at Plalifax, became a merchant and ship- owner, director of the Ocean marine insurance company, a member of the committee of the Prot- estant industrial school, and a governor of Dal- housie college. He was a commissioner for sign- ing treasury notes, and represented Halifax in the provincial legislature from 1867 until he was elected to the Dominion senate, 10 Oct., 1870.

NORTON, Asahel Strong, clergyman, b. in Farmington, Conn., 20 Sept.. 1765 ; d. in Clinton, N. Y., 10 May, 1853. His father, lehabod Norton, was a colonel in the war of the Revolution. The son was graduated at Yale in 1790. licensed as a Congregational preacher in 1792, and in 1793 be-