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538 Protestant Episcopal Church," beginning with Bishop White (1857). followed by Bishop Seabury and fifteen others (1857-'9); "Life of Bisliop Heber" (1858); "Life of George Washington" (1860); "Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Frankfort, Ky., 1861); "Life of Archbishop Cranmer" (1863); "Life of Archbishop Land" (Boston, 1864); "Short Sermons" (1858); "Sketches, Literary and Theological" (1872); "The King's Ferry-Boat," sermons (1876); and "Old Paths," sermons (1880). — His brother, George Hatley, clergyman, b. in Ontario county, N. Y., 7 May, 1824, entered Hobart college in 1838, but was not graduated. He studied law in Fauquier county, Va.. in 1840-'3, but, resolving to enter the ministry, went to the Theological seminary of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1846. He was ordained deacon in July, 1846, by Bishop Meade, and priest in May, 1848, by the same bishop. He accepted the rectorship of St. James's church, Warrenton, Va., in 1846, and held that post for twelve years, but removed to Ohio in 1858, and became rector of Trinity church, Columbus. In 1859 he was called to St. Paul's church, Alexandria, Va., which post he holds at the present date (1888). He received the degree of D. D. from William and Mary in 1868. Dr. Norton has held various offices of trust in church affairs. He was delegate to the general council of his church in the seceding states in 1862-'5, deputy to the General convention in the United States in 1868-'86, and has been a member of the standing committee of the diocese and a trustee of the Theological seminary of Virginia since 1865. He was elected professor of systematic divinity in the theological seminary in 1874, and president of Kenyon college, Ohio, in 1876, but declined both posts. Dr. Norton has contributed to some extent to current religious literature, and has also published an "Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church" (Philadelphia, 1853). NORTON, John Pitkin, chemist, b. in Albany, N. Y., 19 July, 1822; d. in Farmington, Conn., 5 Sept., 1852. He early determined to be a farmer, a choice in which his parents acquiesced with the provision that he should be educated for that occupation, and so, while his summers were devoted to the care of his father's farm in Farmington, the winters were spent in scientific studies in New Haven. In 1844 he went to Edinburgh, where he spent two years in the laboratory of the Agricultural chemical association. While he was m Scotland he prepared several scientific papers, two of which were read before the British association for the advancement of science, and for an essay on oats he received a prize of fifty sovereigns from the Highland agricultural society. On his return to the United States he was made first professor of agricultural chemistry and of vegetable and animal physiology in Yale, to date from 19 Aug., 1846, but, as the giving of instruction in these branches was deferred for one year, he returned to Europe for the purpose of further study at Utrecht. He entered on the active duties of his chair in the autumn of 1847, and continued there until his death. The large number of students that attended his scientific lectures and those of the younger Silliman led to the ultimate founding of the Yale (now Sheffield) scientific school. Prof. Norton delivered numerous addresses before agricultural societies, which were published in pamphlet-form, and contributed papers to the "American Journal of Science." He was a regular contributor to the Albany "Cultivator," and published "Elements of Scientific Agriculture" (Albany, 1850) and "Appendix to Stephen's Book of the Farm," the American appendix to the "Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture" (2 vols., New York, 1858).— His brother, Charles Ledyard, author, b. in Farmington, Conn., 11 June, 1837, was graduated at Yale in 1859, and continued his studies in the direction of chemistry until the autumn of 1860. He enlisted as a private in the 7th regiment, New York National guard, in 1861, and served in Maryland. In September, 1862, he was appointed a lieutenant in the 25th Connecticut volunteers and attached to an expedition to the Department of the Gulf under Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, becoming an aid to Gen. Henry W. Birge. He was promoted captain in February, 1863, and participated in the first Red river campaign and the siege of Port Hudson. In October, 1863, he was assigned to the 29th Connecticut volunteers, and organized that regiment in New Haven. Conn. He was commissioned colonel of the 78th U. S. colored troops in December, 1863, and joined his regiment in Louisiana, serving in the Department of the Gulf until the end of the war, mainly in garrison and Outpost duty. Col. Norton was then given command of a wide district in western Louisiana during the early reconstruction period. In November, 1865, he was ordered to New Orleans and charged with the reception and despatch of troops in transit to the north for discharge. He was mustered out of service in January, 1866, and spent a year in cotton-planting in Louisiana and in travel in Europe. On his return he entered journalism in New York city, and was on the staff of the "Christian Union" in 1869-'79, and was managing editor the last three years of that time. In 1881-4 he was managing editor of the "Continent" magazine. He has since devoted his attention to literature, contributing to magazines on historical and out-of-door topics. He was one of the founders of the New York canoe club, and is the author, with John Habberton, of "Canoeing in Kanuckia" (New York, 1878).

NORTON, Lewis Mills, chemist, b. in Athol, Mass.. 26 Dec, 1855; d. in Auburndale, 26 April, 1893. He studied at the Massachusetts institute of technology, received a certificate of chemistry, and then served as assistant. Subsequently he studied at the school of medicine in Paris, and at the chemical laboratories in the universities of Berlin and Gottingen, receiving in 1879 the degree of Ph. D. at the latter. After his return to the United States he was chemist of the Amoskeag manufacturing company in Manchester, N. H., until 1882, when he returned to the institute of technology, becoming in 1883 professor of organic and industrial chemistry. Dr. Norton published papers that give the results of his scientific researches in the proceedings of the German chemical society and in the "American Chemical Journal." He was a member of scientific societies, and had in preparation a "Dictionary of Chemical Synonyms."

NORTON, Sidney Augustus, educator, b. in Bloomfield, Ohio, 11 Jan., 1835. He was graduated at Union college in 1856, taught natural science in Poughkeepsie, was tutor at Union in 1857, and in 1858 became principal of a high-school in Hamilton, Ohio. He was connected with the Cleveland high-school in 1858-'64, and was then professor of chemistry in Miami medical college. In 1873 he was called to fill a similar chair in Ohio state university, which he has since held. Prof. Norton has studied chemistry in the universities at Bonn, Leipsic, and Heidelberg, in Germany. He received the degree of M. D. from Miami in 1869 in course, and from Western Reserve in 1869, that of Ph. D. from Kenyon in 1878, and that of LL. D. from Wooster in 1881. Besides writing various scientific and edu-