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Rh NASH, George Kilbon, jurist, b. in Medina county, Ohio, 4 Aug., 1842. He was educated at Western Reserve university and Oljprliii college, taught school and studied law, being admitted to the bar in IHQb. He edited for a year the "Ohio State .Journal," became chief clerk in the office of secretary of slate of Ohio, was prosecuting attor- ney of Franklin county for thi^ee years, and in 1883 he was elected judge of the state supreme court. Two years later he returned to the practice of law in Columbus. Judge Nash is an active Republican, has been member and chairman of the state committee for several years, and in 1899 was elected governor of Ohio bv 50,000 plurality.

NELSON, Cleland Kinlock, I'. K. bishop, b. near Cobham, Va., 16 Sept., 18.'52. He studied at St. John's college, of which his father was presi- dent, and was graduated at the I'niversity of the South. Later he attended lectures at Berkeley divinity school, and received orders in the Episco- pal church in 1876, l>ecoining rector of St. John the Baptist in Germantown, Pa., where he re- mained for si.x years. In 1882 he was called to the Church of the Nativity in South Bethlehem, Pa., of which parish he continued as rector for ten years, and until elected bishop of Georgia in 1892.

NELSON, Edward Beverly, educator, b. 20 May, IH-W, at Poughkeepsie, X. Y.,was educated at the military academy at Poughkeepsie, at Phillips Exeter, which he entered in 1867, and at Harvard, where ho was graduated in IHTS. In the autumn of 1873 he was appointed professor in the New York citv institution for the instruction of deaf- mutes, ^'hile in attendance there he gave hisafter- noons to the study of law at Columbia law-school. In 1876 he was appointed principal of the Central New York institution for deaf-mute.s, at Rome. Under his care the institution has been put ufmn an independent biusis, and the number of teachers, instnietors, and pupils greatly increa.sed. He re- ceived the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1894.

NELSON, Knute, senator, b. in Kvangcr. Nor- way. 2 Feb., 1843. He came to the United .States in 1849, and resided in Chicago, III., until iHiiO, in the fall of which year he removed to Vis<'onsin, and attended for a time the Albion academv. He served in the civil war as a member of the 4th Wisconsin, being wounded and captured at Port Hudson in June, 1863. In the si)ring of 1867 he began the practice of law. and later wa.s a mem- ber of the Wisconsin legislature. In 1871 he re- moved to Minnesota and was elected prosecuting attorney for Douglas county in 1872-'4. For the four years following he served as slate senator, and ill 1880 as j)residential elector on the I{epul)- lican ticket. For a time he was a member of the Imard of regents of the state university, and for six years he represented the Sth Minnesota dis- trict in the house of representatives. In 1892 he was elected governor of Minnesota, and was re- elected in 1894, serving until Febniarv, ISW."). In January of that year he was elected U. S. senator for the term ending in March, 1901.

NELSON, Thomas Leverett, jurist, b. in Haverhill,. II.. 4 March. 1827; d. in Worcester, Mass., 21 Nov., 1897. He entereil Dartmouth, where he stndieil for two vcars. and was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1846. The next five years were spent in the practice of his original profession, that of civil engineer. An accident to his knee compelled him to give up engineering, and during the long months which elapsed before his recovery he began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1855, and later became associated with Senator George F. Hoar. Mr. Nelson acquired a large and lucrative practice in Worcester, ami was especially success- ful in equity and bankruptcy law. He was ap- pointed ll. >S. district judge for Massachusetts by President Hayes in 1879, to succeed John Lowell, who was promoted to the circuit court. Judge Nelson was a member of the jmerican antiquarian society, and in 1879 he received the degree of LL. D. from the Universitv of Vermont.

'''NELSON. William''', lawyer, b. in Newark, N. J., 10 Feb., 1847. He was educated in the pub- lic si'hools of his native city ; engaged in journal- ism for several years in Newark and at Paterson, having resided since 1865 in the latter city, where he practises law. He has been secretary of the New Jersey historical society since 1880. for .sev- eral years a member of the board of managers of the American authors' guild, and is an hono- rary or corresponding member of many histori- cal, literary, and scientific societies in the United States and Europe. In 1896 Princeton universitv conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. >f. Mr. Nelson is the editor of the " New Jersey Archives,'' in which he has given the most com- plete account yet issued of American printers and printing prior to 1801 : and has published about fifty biographical, historical, legal, ami scientific monographs. He is the author of " The Indians of New Jersey" (Paterson, 1894); "The Doremus Family in America" (1897): and "The History of the "City of Paterson " (1898).

NEWBERRY, Walter Cass, merchant, b. at Waterville, N. Y., 2!^ Dec, 1835. -His father, Ania.sa .S., brother of the founder of the Newberry library, was a colonel in the New York state mili- tia, a inend)er of the legislature of 1838-'9, and U. S. loan commissioner under President Polk. The son was educated at Cazenovia and Geneva, entered the commercial house of his uncle, Oliver NewlK'rry, of Detroit, in 1H68, and was one of the executors of his estate. When the civil war be- gan he returned to New York and enlisted as a private in the 81st regiment, being commissioned lieutenant in 1861, captain in 1862. major in 1863, colonel in 1864, and orevetted brigadier-general, 31 March, 186.5, for services at Dinwiddle Court- Hou.se, where he was severely wounded. He set- tled in Petersburg in September, 1865. and was appointed mayor of that city in 1869. an office which he resigned for that of sui)erintendent of public profierty of the state of irginia, that he retained for four years. He was one of the con- tractors of the reservoir water-works of Rich- mond, and upon their completion, in 1876, settled in Chicago as a merchant, and in the care of the large estate left by his uncle Walter, a part of which he inherited. Gen. Newberry was post- master of Chicago. 1888-'9, under Cleveland, and in 1890 he was elected to congress, serving for two vears. In 1892 lie became a trustee of the New- berrv librarv. and is still a member of the board.

NEWHALL, Charles Stedman, author, b. in Boston. 4 Oct., 1842. He was educated at Amherst, from which he graduated in 1869, and studied for the ministry at Union theological seminary. He saw service in the civil war as corporal in the 45th Massachusetts regiment of infantry.