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 NOYES

NUNNALLY

A.M., 1877, and from the Columbian Law school, LL.B., 1882, LL.M.. 1883. He was a reporter on the Washington Star, 1877-81; practised law in South Dakota, 1883-87. and a.ssumed the editor- ship of the Wasliington Star in 1887. He was chosen a trustee of the Columbian university in 1889; was elected president of the Alumni associa- tion in 1891; became president of the board <>f trustees of the Wasliington Public library in

1896, and of the Washington board of trade in

1897. He is the author of: The National Capital (1893); News2}a})cr Libels (ISOi); Xotes of Travel (1894); Warof the Metals (ISdd); and Conditions in the Philippines (1900).

NOYES, William Curtis, jurist, was born in Scliodack. Keiisselaer cuunty. N.Y., Aug. 19,

180."): son of George and (Friend) Noyes,

and a descendant of the Rev. James and Sarah (Brown) Noyes. The Rev. James Noyes, a na- tive of Cliolderton, Wiltshire, England, immi- grated to America in 1G34, and settled in Newbury, Mass.. in 1635. William Curtis Noyes studied law in Alban}-, N.Y., 1819, and with Judge S. B. Ludlow, in Nassau, N.Y., 1820-21. He re- moved to Whitesboro, Oneida county, with his parents, completed his law studies under Henry R. Storrs. and was admitted to the bar in 1827. He practised in Rome, N.Y., and afterward in Utica, was district attorney of Oneida county, and removed to New York city in 1838. He was a commissioner with Alexander W. Bradford and David Dudley Field to codify the laws of the state, 18.57-64: was the defeated Republican can- didate for attorney-general of the state in 1857, and was appointed by the state legislature a member of the Peace commission in 1861. He was one of the popular Republican candidates for the nomination to the U.S. senate in 1861, and was prominently supported as an available succes.sor to Chief-Ju.stice Taney in 1864. He was said to have no efjual as an equity lawj'er and as a cross-examiner. He served on the executive committee of the American Temperance union; was a member of the charitable committee, and was also president of the New England society. Hamilton college gave him the honor- ary d<-gree of LL.D. in 1856. and he bequeathed to that institution his valuable law library, containing over .5000 volumes. He died in New York r-ity, Dpc. 25, 1801.

NUCKOLLS, William Thompson, representa- tive, was Ijorn near Hancockville, on the Pacolet river, Union district, S.C, Feb. 23. 1801; son of John and Nancy (Thompson) Nuckolls, and grand- son of John and Agatlia (Bullock) Nuckolls of Vir- ginia, who removeil to Spartanburg district, S.C, about 1770 and made the settlement of Whig Hill. John Nuckolls, Sr., joined the ])atriots, and about 1779 was killed by the Tories while at a mill, his

young son John, who was with him, escaping, Tiie family was of English origin. William Thompson Nuckolls was graduated at South Carolina college in 1820, and became a lawyer at Spartanburg C.H., S.C. He was admitted to the bar in 1823, and was a friend of John C. Cal- houn, who said of him that he was one of the best informed men in puljlic life. He was a representative from the ninth South Carolina district in the 20th, 21st and 22d congresses, 1827- 33. He married his cousin, Susan Dawkins, and they had no children. He died on his plantation near Hancockville, S.C, Sept. 27, 1855.

NUNN, David Alexander, representative, was born in Haywood county, Tenn., July 20, 1833; son of David and Alice (Koonce) Nunn, both na- tives of North Carolina. David A. Nunn was a student at the College of West Tennessee, Jack- son; was graduated from the Lebanon Law school in 1853,. and began practice at Browns- ville, Tenn. He was married in 1853 to Mary E. Tliompson, who died in 1873, and secondly, in 1875, to Tennessee Whitehead of Haywood county. He was a member of the Whig and Re- publican party, and was a presidential elector on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860, and on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in 1864. Immediately after the war he was elected state senator. He represented Haywood county in the state legisla- ture, 1866-67; was the Republican representative from the Memphis district in the 40th congress, 1868-69; was defeated for the 41st congress in 1868, and represented the ninth district of Tenn- essee in the 43d congress, 1873-75. He was ap- pointed by President Grant U.S. minister resi- dent to Equador in 1875. He was secretary of the state of Tennessee, 1881-85, and collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Tenn- essee, 1889-93 and 1897-1901. He resigned in 1901, after the death of President McKinley, and re- sumed the practice of law at Brownsville, Tenn.

NUNNALLY, Gustavus Alonzo, educator, was born in Walton county, Ga., I^larcli 24, 1841; son of William Branch and Mary Hale (Talbot) Nun- nally, and grandson of John Nunnally. His father and mother were born in Virginia and set- tled in Walton county, Va., in 1819. He was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1859, the youngest man to receive a diploma in the history of the university; was married, Nov. 23, 1859, to Mary, daughter of Rali)li Briscoe, of Wal- ton county, Ga.; was professor of mathematics in Hamilton Female college, 1859-61, and principal of the Johnston institute, 1861-68. He was qtiartermaster of the 9th Georgia militia. Col. P. H. Mell; entered the B;iptist ministry in 1865, and preached in Walton and the surrounding counties, 186.5-76, also engaging in farming, in editing the Southern Witness and as .superintend-