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of the 17t}i army corps. 1S61-65. He was con- structional engineer and superintendent of the Bessemer steel works, Steelton, Pa., 18G6-74. He was a Republican representative in the Massa- chusetts legislature in 1883; state senator, 1885- 86; a trustee of the Worcester Insane hospital. 1888-98: a memher of the Massachusetts Free Public Library commission. 1890-1903; a member of the Massachusetts board of charity. 1898-1903, and became a member of the Massachusetts His- torical society, of the American Antiquarian soci- ety and of kindred organizations. He is the author of: Early Records of Lancaster, 10^3-17^5 (1884); The Story of the 55th Regiment of Illinois In- fantry (1887); The Military Annals of Lancaster, 1740-1SC5 (1889); The Birth. Marriage and Death Register, etc., of Lancaster, 1S43-50 (1890); His- tory of the Town of Harvard, Mass. (1891); The Ninth Report of the Free Public Library Commis- sion (1899), and many pamphlets and- contribu- tions to historical and literary publications.

NOURSE, Joseph, treasury official, was born in Loudon. England. July 16, 1754. He immi- grated with his parents, who were Presbyterians (the family including his brother Michael who became a colonel in the American army), and they settled in Virginia in 1769. He reached his majority wlien the Revolution broke out, and he entered the army as secretary to Gen. Charles Lee in March, 1776, and served with that general wliile he was engaged in organizing the cavalry of Virginia. He was made assistant adjutant- general's clerk and paymaster of the board of war, serving in that capacity, 1777-81, and as register of the U.S. treasury, 1781-1829. He was a vice-president of the American Bible society, 1816-41. He died near Washington. Sept. 1, 1841. NOURSE, Joseph Everett, clergyman, was born in Wasliington, D.C., April 17, 1819; son of Col. Michael and Mary (Rittenhouse) Nourse. Col. Micliael Nourse came from London, England, with liis brotiier Joseph (q.v.) in 1769; settled in Virginia, .served in the Revolutionary army, and afterward resided in Wasliington, D.C. Joseph attended the classical academy of Salmon P. Cha.se in Washington, D.C, and was graduated at Jefferson college. Pa., in 1837. He tauglit in Rittenhouse academy, AVashington. D.C, 1837-40, and WHS principal of that institution, 1840-49, He was marrieil Dec. 21. 1841, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas C. Wriglit. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Baltimore in May, 1849; was professor of etliics and Engli.sh studies and acting chaplain at the U.S. Naval academy, 1850-64, and profes.sor of mathematics. 1864-81. He was stated sui)ply at Fort Adams. 1861-65; on duty at the naval observatory, 1865-79, and on special duty in the U.S. Naval department, 1879-81. He was also a stated .supply at the

Fifteenth Street Presbyterian church, Washing- ton, D.C, 1876-86, and at Clifton, Va., 1886-89. He represented the U.S. government at the Inter- national geographical congress that met in Paris in 1875. He is the author of: The Maritime Canal of Suez; Brief Memoir of the Enterprise and Comparison of its Probable Results with those of a Shijy-Canal across Darien (1869); Astronom- ical and Meteorological Observations (1871); Memoir of the Founding and Progress of the U.S. Naval Observatory (1873); Medals Aivarded to AmeHcan Arctic Explorers by Foreir/n Societies (1876); Nai^ative of the Second Arctic E.rplora- Hon by Charles F.Hall (1879); American Ex- ploration in the Ice Zones (1884): and The Mari- time Canal of Suez from its Inauguration Nov. 17, 1869, to the Year ISS4. (1884). He died in Washington, D.C, Oct. 8, 1889.

NOVY, Frederick George, bacteriologist and chemist, was born in Chicago, 111., Dec. 9, 1864; son of Joseph and Frances Novy. He was grad- uated at the University of Michigan, B.S. (chem- istry) 1886, Sc.D., 1890, M.D., 1891; was assistant in organic chemistry, 1887; instructor in hygiene and physiological chemistrj', 1887-91; assistant professor of the same, 1891-93, and in 1893 was made junior professor. He was married in 1891, to Grace, daughter of Dr. V. D. Garwood of Ann Arbor, Mich. He studied in Koch's laboratory, Berlin, 1888, in Prague, 1894 and in Pasteur In- stitute, Paris, 1897. He was U.S. commissioner to investigate the plague of 1901. In January, 1902, with Professor P. C Freer, he announced the discovery of the germicidal action of the or- ganic peroxides which under the designation of acetozone or benzozone have come to be widely known. He is the author of numerous papers besides the following works: Cocaine and its Derivatives (1887); Laboratory Work in Bacteri- ology (2 ed.) and Laboratory Work in Physiologi- cal Chemistry (2 ed.), and joint author with Vaughan of Cellular Toxins (4 ed.), which became a recognized standard text-book in the universities of the United States.

NOYES, Arthur Amos, chemist, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 13, 1866; son of Amos and Anna (Andrews) Noj'es; grandson of David and Harriet (Cook) Noyes, and of James Henry and Ruth (Bott) Andrews, and a descendant of Nicholas Noyes, of Newburj-, Mass., who came to America from England in 1635. He was grad- uated from the Massachusetts Institute of Tecli- nology.B.S., 1886, M.S., 1887; was a.ssi.stant and instructor in organic chemistry at the institute, 1887-88, and 1890-93; was graduated from the University of Leipzig. Ph.D. in 1890, and was ap- pointed a-ssistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894. He edited the Review of American Chemical Re-