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Margaret Tayler, daughter of Dr. Cliarles D. and Margaret (Van Valkenburg) Cooper. Margaret Van Valkenburg was a niece and adopted daugh- ter of Lieut.-Gov. John Tayler (q.v.). He was a member of the state assembly, 1850. He was president of the State Agricultural society, 1841, when he directed the first state fair, at Syracuse. He died in Guilderland, N.Y., May 23, 1878.

NOTT, John, educator, was born in Albany, N.Y., Dec. 11, 1801; son of Eliphalet and Sallie (Benedict) Nott. He was graduated at Union college in 1823, attended Andover Theological seminary, 1823-25, and Princeton Theological seminary, 1836-27. He was ordained by the pres- bytery of Albany, May 19, 1837, was tutor at Union college, 1830-39; assistant professor of rhetoric, 1839-51; assistant pastor of the Re- formed Dutch church, Rotterdam, N.Y., 1839-41, and pastor, 1841-54; pastor of Presbyterian churches at Goldsboro and Evansville, N.C., 1854- 61, and assistant pastor of the Reformed Dutch church, Auriesville, X.Y., 1861-78. He died at Fonda. N.Y., May 13, 1878.

NOTT, Josiah Clark, ethnologist, was born in Columbia, S.C, March 34, 1804; son of Judge Abram and Angelica (Mitchell) Nott. He was graduated at South Carolina college, A.B., 1824, and at the Universitj- of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1827. He was a demonstrator of anatomy in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1827-29; practised medi- cine in Columbia, S.C. 1829-34, and studied in the hospitals of Paris, 1835-36. He practised in Mobile, Ala., 1836-57; was professor of anatomy in the University of Louisiana, 1857-58; estab- lished the medical school of the State university at Mobile, in 1858, and was professor of surgery there, 1859-61. He served on the medical staff of General Bragg. 1861-65, and in 1867 removed to New York city where he practised medicine, but subsequently returned to Mobile. He was married in March, 1832, to Sarah Chesnut, daugh- ter of James Sutherland and Margaret (Chesnut) Deas, and sister of Zachariah C. Deas (q.v.). Mrs. Nott died in New York city, April 17, 1883. Dr. Nott denied the theory of the unity of the human race and is the author of: Two Lectures on the Connection between the Biblical and Phys- ical History of Man (1849); TTie Physical History of the Jewish Race (1850); Types of Mankind (1854), and Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857). In an article published in the New Orleans Med- ical Journal (1S4S); relative to the contagion of yellow fever Dr. Nott demonstrates with remark- able clearness that the disease is spread by in- sects and not by germs, and suggests mosquitoes as one of the insects. This paper was published fifty-four years before the " discovery " was pub- lished by the U.S. war department in 1902. He died in Mobile, Ala., March 31, 1873.

NOTT, Samuel, educator, was born in Frank- lin, Conn., Sept. 11, 1788; son of the Rev. Samuel Nott, D.D. (1754-1852), Yale, 1780, pastor of Con- gregational church. Franklin, Conn., 1781-1852, and known as the " Patriarch of the New Eng- land Clergy." Samuel Nott, Jr., was graduated at Union college in 1808, and at Andover Theo- logical seminary in 1810. He was ordained, Feb. 6, 1812, and became one of the first missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. sent to India, serving, 1812-16, His health becoming broken he returned to tixe United States in 1816, and was a school-teacher in New York city, 1816-23; pastor at Galway, N.Y., 1823-39, and at Wareham, Mass., 1829-49, and founder and proprietor of a private academy at Wareham, 1849-66. In 1866 he returned from active labor and resided at Wareham and at Hartford, Conn. He is the author of: Sixteen Years' Preaching and Procedure at Wareham (1845); Slavery and the Remedy (1856); and various published sermons and addresses. He died in Hartford, Conn., June 1, 1869.

NOURSE, Elizabeth, artist, was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio: daugliter of Caleb E. and Eliza- beth Le Breton (Rogers) Nourse; and a descend- ant of an old Huguenot family, who settled in Massachusetts where her parents were born; and of Rebecca Nourse, who was hanged as a witch near Salem, July 19, 1692. Elizabeth Nourse studied art in Cincinnati and then in Paris, under Boulanger, Lefebvre and Julian, where she opened a studio of her own. She tlien worked independently under the criticism of such men as Carolus-Duran and Dagnan-Bouveret. In the summer of 1901 she was elected societaire of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, which honor entitled her to exhibit in the annual salon withovit submitting her pictures to the jury. Ten of lier works were shown in the New Salon of 1902, an honor never before conferred upon an American woman. She chose as subjects the rugged types of peasant life.

NOURSE, Henry Stedman, civil engineer, was born in Lancaster, Mass., April 9, 1831; son of Stedman and Patty (Howard) Nourse: grand- son of Oliver and Mary (Houghton) Nourse, and of George and Parnel (Ames) Howard; and a descendant of Fi-ancis and Rebecca (Towne) Nurse (the latter judicially murdered as a witch on Gallows Hill, Salem, July 19, 1692) and of John Howard, immigrant to Duxbury before 1643, representative, 1678; also of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, Mayflower pilgrims, tlirough their daughter Ruth. He was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1853. A.M., 1856, and was professor of ancient languages at Phillips Exeter academy, 1853-55. During the civil war he served in the Federal army as captain in the 55th lUiimis volunteer infantry and as commissary of musters