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NORTHWAY, Stephen Asa, representative, ■was born in Christian or Lafaj^ette Hollow, Onon- daga county, N.Y., June 19, 1833; son of Orange and Maria (Graff) Noithway, and grandson of Zenas Northvvay. He removed to Orwell, Ashta- bula county, Ohio, with his parents in 1840, and they occupied a pioneer's cabin in the woods where he assisted in clearing a farm. He at- tended and taught the district school; was a student at Kingsville and Orwell academies; was admitted to the bar in 1859, and settled in prac- tice in Jefferson, Ohio. He was married in Jan- uary, 1863, to Lydia A., daughter of Anson and Harriet (Rockwell) Dodge, of Lenox, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Ashtabula county, 1861-65, and resigned in 1865, having been elected a representative in the state legislature for the term 1866-68. He resumed the practice of law in Jefferson in 1868, and was a Republican repre- rentative from the nineteenth Ohio district in the 53d, 54th and 55th congresses, 1893-98, and on his death in 1898, Charles Dick, of Akron, was elected to complete the term. He died in Jefferson town- ship. Ohio, Sept. 8. 1898.

NORTON, Andrews, theologian, was born in Hiugham, Mass., Dec. 31, 1786; son of Samuel and Jane (Andrews) Norton; grandson of John and Anne (Belknap) Norton, and of Joseph Andrews, and a descendant of the Rev. William Norton, a native of Starford, Hertfordshire, England, who with his brother, the Rev. John Norton, emigrated to America in 1634. William settled in Ipswich, Mass., and married Lucy Downing. Andrews Norton was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1804, A.M., 1807; pursued a post graduate course, and studied theology. He was a tutor at Bowdoin college, 1809-10, at Harvard, 1811-13, and editor of the General Repository, a theological publication, in 1812. He was Dexter lecturer on Biblical criticism at Harvard, 1813-19; librarian at Harvard, 1813-21, and Dexter pro- fessor of Biblical criticism, 1819-30. He was married in 1821 to Catherine, daughter of Samuel Eliot of Boston. In 1828 he visited England, He resigned his professorship in 1830 and thence- forth led the life of a retired scholar, residing at Cambridge, Mass., and making Newport, R.I., his summer home, 1849-52. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin college in 1815, and declined that of D.D. offered him by Harvard college. He edited the MisceUaneous Writings of Charles Eliot (1814); the Poems of Mrs. Hemans (1826); and in conjunction with Charles Folsom Hie Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature {i: vols., 1833-34). He is the avithor of: A Statement of the Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians concerning the Nature of God and the Person of Christ (1833. new edition with a memoir of the author, 1856); His-

torical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels (3 vols., 1837-44; The Latent Form of Infidelity (1839); Tracts concernhig Christianity (1852); A Translation of the Gospels with Notes (2 vols., 1855); The Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels (1855) and several poems. He died in Newport, R.I., Sept. 18, 1852,

NORTON, Asahel Strong, clergyman, was born in Farmington, Conn., Sept. 20, 1765; son of Col. Ichabod and Ruth (Strong) Norton; grand- son of Thomas Norton, and of Asahel and Ruth (Hooker) Strong, and a descendant of John Norton, the founder of the family in Farmington, Conn., whose name first appears on the records of the town of Branford in 1646. He was grad- uated at Yale, A.B., 1790, studied theology under Dr. Strong of Haddam, and Dr. Smalley of Berlin, and was licensed to preach by the as- sociation of Hartford county, in 1792, He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Clinton, N,Y,, in September, 1793. He was married Jan, 19, 1795, to Mary Clap, daughter of the Rev. Timothy and Temperance (Clap) Pit- kin, of Farmington, Conn. He was dismissed from his pastorate at his own request in Novem- ber, 1833, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was one of the founders of Hamil-

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ton college m 1812, delivered the Latin address at the inauguration of the Rev, Azel Backus, its first president, and was a member of the cor- poration of the college, 1812-33, He received the honorary degree D.D, from Union college in 1815. He died in Clinton, N.Y., May 10, 1853. NORTON, Charles Benjamin, publisher and author, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 1, 1825; eldest son of Major Benjamin Hammatt and Augusta (Ware) Norton. He was educated in Boston and in Sanbornton, N.H., and was engaged in the book business in Boston until 1848, when he removed to New York city, where he was in the house of D. Appleton & Co. until 1850, when he went into the publishing and bookselling business for himself. He made a special study of book collections for libraries, and in 1852 engaged in publishing Norton's Lit- erary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, and Norton's Literary Letter. He published many important works, including the first issue of Poole's " Index to Periodicals," and Stewart's " Naval Dry Docks " and " Naval Steamships " of