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law passed early in 1864 abolishing the office of commissary of prisons. His removal from office was unsuccessfully contested until Feb. 16, 1865. when he retired to North Carolina and engaged in farming, but was arrested by the government in July, 1865, and confined in Richmond until November of that y^ar. He settled on a farm in Charlottesville, Va., in 1866, where he resided for many years. He is the author of: The Confeder- ate Commissariat at Manassas in " Battles and Leaders of the Civil AVar" (Vol. I., p. 261, 1887) in wliich lie defends himself against the charges of General Beauregard. He died in a soldier's home at PikosviUe. Md.. Feb. 9. 1S94.

NORTHRUP, Ansel Judd, lawyer and author, was born in Smithtield, Madison county, N.Y., June 30. 1833; son of Rensselaer and Clarissa (Judd) Northrup; grandson of Amos and Betsey (Stedman) Northrup, and of Ansel and Electa (Jones) Judd, and descended from Joseph North- rup, immigrant from England, one of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., in 1639. He was graduated at Hamilton college, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, studied law at Columbia Law school. New York city, 1858-59, and settled in practice in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1859. He was U.S. circuit court commissioner, 1870-97; judge of Onondaga county, N.Y., 1882-94; commissioner to revise the statutes and codes of New York, 1895-1900, and in June, 1897. was made a U.S. commis- sioner. He was vice-president and president of the Loyal League during and after the civil war, and a lay commissioner to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, at Saratoga, N.Y., in 1890. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college in 1895. He was married Nov. 24, 1863, to Eliza S., daughter of Thomas Brocka- ■way and Ursula Ann (Elliott) Fitch, of Syracuse, N.Y. He is the author of: Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks, and Grayling Fishing m Xorthern Michigan (1880); Seonset Cottage Life (1881 and 1901); The Powers and Duties of Elders in the Presbyterian Church (1890); Slavery in X'lc York, a Historical Sketch (1900); Northrup Genealogy, and other papers and addresses.

NORTHRUP, Birdsey Grant, educationist, was born in Kent, Conn.. July 10, 1817; son of Tliomas G. and Aurelia (Curtis) Northrup, and grandson of Lieut. Amos Northrup, Yale, A.B., 1762, A.M., 1765. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1841, and at Yale Tlieological seminary in 1845. He was married Feb. 18, 1840, to Harriet Eliza Cliichester. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church, Saxonville, Mass., March 10, 1847, and resigned in 18.57. He was agent of the Massachusetts board of education, 1857-67, and secretary of the Connecticut board of edu- cation. 1867-83, where he directed the movement for educating Chinese and Japanese youth in

American colleges and schools. In 1872 the gov- ernment of Japan invited him to establish a sys- tem of public education in that country, which he declined, believing that he could serve them better in the United States. He went abroad in 1871, and again in 1877, to investigate the educational systems of Europe, and the schools for the studj- of forestry and those for industrial education. He devoted much time to tree-plant- ing; originated and introduced the observance of Arbor Day in the public schools, and for his at- tention to sanitary and aesthetic home surround- ings he was called the " Father of Village Im- provement Societies." He was a member of the board of visitors of the U.S. Military academy, 1863-64; president of the American Institute of Instruction, 1804-66; of the National Association of School Superintendents in 1866, and of the National Educational association in 1873. It was through his influence that Daniel Hand, of Guil- ford, Conn., gave to the American Missionary society $1,. 500, 000 for the education of the colored people in 1888. In 1895 he visited Japan, where he was received as the guest of the nation and was also presented with a set of china by the Japanese government in acknowledgment of his services. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1853, and the honoi-ary degree of LL.D. from Williams college in 1872. He is the author of: Education Abroad; Forestry in Europe; Lessons from European Schools, and pamphlets. He died in Clinton, Conn.. April 27. 1898.

NORTHRUP, George Washington, educator, was born in Antwerp, JeflfersDU county, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1826; son of "William Northrup; grand- son of Remington and Amy (Knowles) Northrup, and a descendant (through Nicholas, Nicholas and Stephen) of Stephen Northrup, immigrant, of Providence and Kingston, signer of the " Origi- nal Compact" of the settlers "19th, llmo., 1645." George W. Northrup was graduated at Williams college in 1854, and at Rochester Theo- logical seminary in 1857, remaining as instructor in church history, 1857-58, and professor of churcli historj-, 1858-67. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Rochester in 1857, was pastor of the First Baptist church. Rochester, 1857-58, and preached in neighboring churches, 1858-67. He was president and professor of systematic theology. Baptist L^nion Theological seminary, Morgan Park, Chicago, 111., 1867-92, and pro- fessor of sj'stematic theology at the University of Chicago, 1892-1900. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Rochester in 1864, and that of LL.D. from Kalamazoo college in 1879. He was twice married, and by his first wife he had one daughter and two .sons. By his second wife, Naomi Sayles, of Cliicago, he had one cliild. He died at Chicago, 111., Dec. 30, 1900.