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 NORTHROP

NORTHROP

state legislature from Hancock county, 1887-79 and 1880-81 ; a state senator, 1884-85, and served as chairman of the educational committee. He was governor of Georgia, 1890-94, and in 1894 be- came manager of the Georgia Immigration and Investment ■lureau. He was president f the Hancock County farmers' club, vice-president of the State Agricultural society for several years, and president of the same, 1886- 88, and president of the Young Farmers' Club of the Southern States, 1884. He was elected a trustee of Mercer university in 1877 ; was president of the trustees of Washington institute for eight years, and received the degree LL.D. from Mercer university in 1892, from Richmond college, Va., in 1894, and from Baylor university, Texas, in 1900. He contributed to leading agricultural and educational journals in the south.

NORTHROP, Cyrus, educator, was born in Ridgefield. Conn., Sept. 30. 1834"; son of Cyrus and Polly Bouton (Fancher) Northrop; grandson of Josiah and Rebecca (Olmstead) Northrop and a descendant of English ancestors. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1857, and LL.B., 1859 ; was admitted to the bar in 1860, settled in practice in Norwalk, Conn., and was clerk of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1861 and of the state senate in 1862. He was married, Sept. 30, 1862, to Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Davenport Warren of Stamford, Conn. He was editor-in-chief of the New Haven Daily Palladium, 1862-63 ; was professor of rhetoric and English literature in Yale college, 1863-84, and served as collector of the port of New Haven. In 1884 he was elected president of the Univei-sity of Minnesota. He was moderator of the Con- gregational National Council at Worcester in 1889, and assistant moderator of the first In- ternational Congregational Council in London, England, in 1891. He received the degree of L-L.D. from Yale in 1886, and published several ad- dresses.

NORTHROP, Henry Pinckney, E.G. bishop, was born in Charleston, S.C, May 5, 1842; son of Ciaudian Byrd and Hannah Eliza (Anderson) Northrop ; grandson of Amos and Mary (Bellinger) Northrop, and adescendant of Edmund Bellinger, landgrave, surveyor-general to his Majesty's plan- tations in the Carolinas, and of Joseph Northrop, the English immigrant, Milford, Conn., 1639. He studied at Georgetown college, was graduated at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., in 1860, and attended the theological seminary at Emmitsburg. 1860-64. and the American college at Rome, Italy. 1864-65. He was ordained priest at Rome, Italy, June 25, 1865 ; was assistant

at the Church of the Nativity, New York city, 1865-66 ; assistant pastor at St. Joseph's, Charles- ton, S.C, 1866-68, and missionary priest at New Berne, N.C., 1868-72. He was assistant rector of the pro-cathedral and pastor at Sullivan's island, Charleston, S.C, 1872—77, and was rector of St. Patrick's, Charleston, S.C, 1877-82. He was ap- pointed vicar-apostolic of North Carolina and was consecrated as titular bishop of " Rosalia "at Baltimore, Md., by Archbishop Gibbons, assisted by Bishops Keane and Becker. He was trans- ferred by papal brief to the see of Charleston, S.C, Jan. 27, 1883, as successor to Bishop Patrick N. Lynch, who died, Feb. 26, 1882, but continued the administi-ation of the vicariate of North Caro- lina imtil July 1, 1888, when he was relieved by Bishop Leo Haid, O.S.B. He was a member of the third plenary council of Baltimore in 1884.

NORTHROP, Lucius Bellinger, soldier, was born in Charleston, S.C, Sept. 8, 1811 ; son of Amos and Mary (Bellinger) Northrop. He was graduated at the United States Military acad- emy and bre vetted 2d lieutenant in the 7th infantry, July 1, 1831. He served on frontier and scouting duty, 1831-34 ; was transferred to the 1st dragoons, Aug. 14, 1833, was promoted 2d lieutenant of the 1st dragoons, July 21, 1834. was stationed at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, in 1835, and on a sick leave of absence, 1835-37. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Juh- 4, 1836, and served on frontier duty at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1837-39. He returned to Charleston, S.C, in 1839, attended Jetferson Medical college at Philadelphia, Pa., and practised occasionally on charity patents in his native city. He was dropped from the U.S. army for that reason, Jan. 8, 1848, but when Jefferson Davis became secretary of war, he was re-appointed with his former rank and promoted captain of the 1st dragoons, July 21, 1848. He practised medicine in Charleston, S.C, 1853-61. He resigned from the U.S. army Jan. 8. 1861, was appointed commissary-general by President Davis, JNIarch 16, 1861, and was head of the commissary department at Richmond, Va., until Feb. 16, 1865, when he was succeed- ed by Gen. I. M. St. John. He gained the ill- will of General Beauregard after the battle

of Bull Run, that officer charging him with de- laying tlie progress of the battle by failing to supply provisions, which charge he denied. He was also charged with treating Federal prisoners inhumanely and with being responsible for the