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the original proprietors of Farmington, Conn. He was graduatetl at Union college, N.Y., A.B., 1866, A.M.. lb')!), and taught natural science in Pougli- keepsie, N.Y.. 1856-57. He studied chemistry in Bonn, Leipzig and Heidelberg, Germany, in 1857, was a tutor at Union college in 1857; principal of the Hamilton iiigh school. 1858: instructor in natural science in the Cleveland liigh school, 1856-66; was graduated at Miami Medical college in 1869; was professor of chemistry there, 1867-72; acting professor of physics at Union college in 1873, and the same year became professor of chemistry in the Ohio State- university at Col- umbus, and served as professor of chemistry in Starling Medical college two years. He received the degree M.D. from Western Reserve col- lege in 1869; honorary Ph.D. from Kenyon col- lege in 1878. LL.D. from Wooster university in 1881, and from Union university in 1899. He was married in 1864, to Sarah J. Chamberlin, of Cleveland, Ohio, who died in 1868, and secondly in 1876. to Jessie Carter, of Columbus, Ohio. He edited Weld and Quackenbos's English Gram- 7Her (1863), and is the author of: Elements of yatiirdl Philosophij (1870); Essays and Notes (1874): Ele ments of Pit ysics (1875); Elemen ts of Inorganic Chemistry (1878); Organic Chemistry (1884), and of various scientific and educational papers.

NORTON, Thomas Herbert, diplomatist hnd educator, was born in Rushford, N.Y.,June 30, 1851; son of the Rev. Robert and Julia Ann Granger (Horsford) Norton; grandson of Lewis Mills and Laura (Foote) Norton, and of the Hon. Jerediah Horsford of Moscow, N.Y., and a descendant of Tliomas Norton, who emigrat- ed from Oakley, Sur- rej', England, to America in 1639, settled at Guilford, Conn., and became the miller of the col- ony. His grandfather, Lewis Mills Norton, was a noted inventor ' ' '-^^ ^ and genealogist.

^p—-/y ^^^-- ^ ^ Thomas Herbert was <y, /]/ry/?^:f-^f^ graduated at Hamil- ton college, A.B., and valedictorian in 1873, Sc.D. honoris causa, 1875, and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Pli.D. in 1875, where he made a specialty of the study of chemistry. He was an assistant in chemistry at the University of Berlin in 1877, and manager of chemical works of the Compagnie Generale des Cyanures, Paris, France, 1878-83. He traveled 12,000 miles on foot through Europe

and Asia, engaged in scientific research. He was elected professor of chemistry and librarian of the University of Cincinnati in 1883. He was manned, Dec. 27, 1883, to Edith Eliza, daughter of Col. James D. Ames of Lockport, N.Y. In 1900 President McKinley appointed him to establish a U.S. consulate at Harpoot in Asia Minor, where the American college had been destroyed and many Americans massacred. On his arrival in Constantinople the porto asserted that no consul was needed there, and the question was not settled until Oct. 9, 1901, wlien the exequatur of Consul Norton so long withlield was granted. He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as its secretary in 1893, vice-president in 1894. and librarian in 1897; was councillor of the American Cliemical society, 1892-98, a member of the chemical societies of Berlin, St. Petersburg, London and Paris, and of numerous historical, patriotic and hereditary societies. He made im- portant discoveries in the metals of the ceriun group and in organic chemistry, and notewortliy researches and discoveries along the headwaters of the Euphrates, and is the author of scientific papers relating to these researches.

NORTON, William Augustus, educator, was born in East Bloomfield, N.Y., Oct. 25,1810; son of Herman and Julia (Strong) Noi'ton, and grandson of Nathaniel and Mary (Beebe) Norton, and of Elisha and INIary (Beebe) Strong. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academj', seventh in the class of 1831, and was pi'omoted 2d lieu- tenant, 4th U.S. artillery, July 1,1831. He was assistant professor of natural and experimental philosopliy at the academy, 1831-33. He resigned from the U.S. army Sept. 30, 1833, and was assistant in natural philosophy in the University of the City of New York, 1833-38. He was married, Jan. 15, 1839, to Elizabeth Emery, daughter of Samuel Bingham and Joanna (Val- som) Stevens of Exeter, N.H. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Dela- ware college, Newark, Del., 1839-50; president of Delaware college, 1850; professor of natural philosophy and civil engineering in Brown uni- versity, 1850-52, and professor of civil engineering at Yale, 1852-83. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of various otlier scientific societies, and received the honor- ary degree A.M., from the Universitj' of Vermont, in 1840. and from Yale in 1867. His scientific work includes researches in molecular physics, terrestrial magnetism, and astronomical physics, the results of which were published in the American Journal of Science; and read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and before the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of: Elementary Treatise