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the United States. He was elected assistant secretary and librarian of the Book Publishers' association upon its organization, turning over to the use of the association his Gazette and re- linquishing the editorial management in July, 1855. He served throughout the civil war, attain- ing the rank of brevet brigadier-general U.S.V. He was a commissioner to the World's Fair in London in 1851 ; a juror of the fair iu New York in 1853, and United States and New York state commissioner to the Paris exposition IStJT. residing in Paris 1867-1 S70, where he pub- lished the Continental Gazette in English. He was the first to propose the Centennial exhibition of 1873-76, and the foreign exhibition held at Boston in 1883, of which he was manager. He removed to Chicago in 1890, on the invitation of tlie managers of the Columbian exposition, to aid in the organization of that enterprise. He edited the Civil Service Chronicle in 1888 ; and is the author of Rifled Guns and Munitions of War (1869); History of the Centennial Ejcjjosition, illustrated in colors (1877); and World's Fairs (1891). He died in Chicago. 111., Jan. 29, 1891.

NORTON, Charles Eliot, author, was born in Cambridge. 3Iass., Nov. IC, ]S-27 ; son of Andrews and Catherine (Eliot) Norton. He was grad- uated at Harvard, A.B., 1840, A.M. 1849. While employed in an East India house-in Boston, Mass., 1846-49, he .sailed to the East Indies as super- cargo. He travelled extensively in that portion of Asia, made a tour of Europe, returned to Boston in 1851, and was in.structor in French at Harvard in the course of that year. He travelled in Europe, 18.5.5-57 and 1868-73 ; and edited, with Dr. Ezra Abbot, Andrews Norton's " Translation of the Gospel with Notes" (2 vols., 1855) and his" Inter- nal Evidencesof the Genuineness of the Gospels " (1855). He was married in 1862. to Susan, daughter of Theodore and Sara (Ashburn) Sedgwick of Stockbridge and New York. He edited the papers issued by the Loj-al Publication society at Boston, 1862-65, and was joint editor with James Russell Lowell of the North American Review, 1804-68. He was a university lecturer at Harvard, 1863-64 and 1874-75, and in 1875 was made professor of the history of art. He became known as a Dante scholar and as an authority on art. He resigned his chair in Harvard in 1898. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Imperial German Archjeological society. He received the degrees : Litt.D. from the University of Cambridge. England, in 1884; LL.D. from Harvanl in 1887; L.II.D. from Columbia in 1888, D.C.L. from the University of Oxford, England, in 1900 and LL.D. from Yale in 1900. He edited The Poems of Arthur Hugh Cloiigh (18G2); Philosophical Discussions by

Chauncey Wright (1877); Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson (1883) ; Correspondence of Goethe and Carlyle (1887); The Reminiscences and the Letters of Tliomas Carlyle (1886-87); Letters of James Russell LoaW/ (1893) ; Writings of George William Curtis (1894) ; Letters of Emerson to a Friend (1899) ; and (for the Grolier Club) The Poems of John Donne (1895) and Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle (1898). He is the translator of Dante's Vita Nuova (1867) and Divinn Commedia (1891). He is the author of a large number of books including : Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories (1853); Notes of Travel and Study in Italy (1860) ; and Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: J'enice, Siena, Florence (1880).

NORTON, Charles Ledyard, soldier, author, was born in Farmington, Conn., June 11, 1837; son of John Treadwell and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Norton ; grandson of Romanta and Dolly (Tread- well) Norton and of Mason F. and Mary Ledyard Cogswell and a descendent of Col. Ichabod Norton, of Gov. Jonathan Treadwell of Connecticut and of Col. William Ledyai-d, killed in action at Ft. Groton, Conn., Sept. 7, 1781. He was graduated at Yale, A. B., 1859, and continued his studies in chemistry in the Y\ale Scientific school until 1861. He enlisted as a private in the 7th regiment of the New York National Guard in 1861, and served in Maryland. In September, 1882, he became a lieutenant in the 25th Connecticut volunteers. He served in Gen. N. P. Banks's expedition to the gulf as aide to Gen. Henry W. Birge, was promoted captain in February, 1863, and was engaged in the Red River campaign and in the siege of Port Hudson. He helped to organize and was assigned to the 29th Connecticut volunteers in October, 1863. He was married, Sept. 1, 1863, to Electa Melanie, daugiiter of Gustavus Mason Richards of New York. He was commissioned colonel of the 78th U. S. colored troops in December, 1803. and served mainl}' in garrison and outpost duty in the department of the Gulf until the close of the war. He commanded a district in western Louisi- ana and received and despatched the troojis on their way north on the conclusion of peace until he was mustered out of the service in January, 1866. He conducted a cotton plantation near New Orleans, La., 1866-67, travelled in Europe for his health, 1867-68, and was a member of the staff of the Christian Union, New York city, 1869-76 ; and managing editor, 1876-79; an invalid, 1879-81 ; managing editor of the Continent, 1881-84 ; of the Domestic Monthly. 1884-86, of the American Canoeist, 1885-87, and of Outing, 1892-93. He was one of the founders of the New York Canoe club, and became a member of the University, Authors and Quill clubs, of tiie American Canoe association and of the Military