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ent of schools for Walton county. He was pastor at Rome, Ga., 1875-84, superintended the church building department of the South- ern Baptist church, 1884-85, pastor at Eufaula, Ala., 1885-87, and at Anniston, Ala., 1887-89. He was president of Mercer university, Macon, Ga., as successor to Dr. Archibald J. Battle, 1889-92, and during his term of service raised money for new buildings, which doubled the capacity of the university. He resumed minis- terial duties as pastor of the Baptist church at Memphis, Tenn., in 1892, and in 1895 at La Grange, Ga., where he became president of the Southern Female college.

NURSE, Amos, senator, was born in Bolton, Mass., Dec. 17, 1794; son of Jonathan and Ruth (Barrett) Nourse ; grandson of David and Rebecca (Barrett) Nourse, and a descendant of Francis and Rebecca (Towne) Nourse, Salem, Mass., im- migrants. He was graduated at Harvard A.B., 1812, A.M., 1815, andM.D., 1817. He practised in Wincasset, Me., in that year, and removed to Hallowell, where he was postmaster, and to Bath in 1845. He was a lecturer on obstetrics in Bow- doin college, 1846-54, and professor of obstetrics there, 1854-66. He was collector of customs at Bath, by appointment of President Polk, 1845-46, and was elected U.S. senator to fill the unexpired term of Hannibal Hamlin, who resigned, Feb. 6, 1857, to accept the governorship of Maine, and served to the close of the term, March 3, 1857. He was elected judge of probate of Sagadahoc county in 1860. He died in Bath, Maine, April 17, 1877.

NURSE, Rebecca, reputed witch, was born in Yarmouth, England, in 1621. Her maiden name was Towne, and she married Francis Nurse, and with him settled in Salem, Mass., about 1675. She was held in the highest re- spect by her townspeople, but in March, 1692, was accused of witchcraft. Slie was tried in June, and the jury pronounced her not guilty. But the judges were dissatisfied and sent the jury out again, and this time obtained a A-erdict of guilty. She was hanged, with four others, July 19,'l692.

NUTT, Cyrus, educator, was born in Trum- bull county. Ohio, Sept. 4, 1814. He was grad- uated at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., in 1831 ; was principal of the preparator}- depart- ment of Allegheny college, 1831-37 ; of Indiana Ashbury (now DePauw) university, Greencastle, Ind., 1837-38 ; professor of Latin and Greek languages, 1838—4.2 ; of the Greek and Hebrew languages. 1842-43 ; of Greek language and litera- ture, 1846-49, and of mathematics, 1857-60. He was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bloomington Station. Ind., 184.3-45. and at Salem, Ind., 1845-47 ; president of Fort Wayne Female

college, 1849, and of Whitewater college, Wayne county, 1850-55. He resigned in 1855, and was presiding elder of the Richmond district, Ind., 1855-57. He was acting president of De Pauw university, 1857-59, and a trustee of the corpora- tion, 1851-57, and president of Indiana university at Bloomington, 1860-75, being formally inau- gurated, June 7, 1861. He was married, April 26,1838, to Amanda Standiford of Greencastle, Ind. He received the degree D.D. from Allegheny college and from Ohio Wesleyan university in 1859, and LL.D. from the University of Missouri and from Hanover college, Indiana, in 1873. He died in Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 23, 1875.

NUTTALL, Thomas, botanist, was born in Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire, England, Jan. 5, 1786. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade, was a journeyman printer under his uncle in Liverpool for several years, and then went to London, where he was unsuccessful. He immigi-ated to Phil- adelphia, Pa., in 1807, where Prof. Benja- min Smith Barton encouraged him to engage in scientific study and became his instructor. He made a trip along the coasts of Delaware, Mary- land, Virginia and North Carolina, and on his return visit- ed the region of the upper Missouri river

with John Bradbury, the Scotch naturalist, on a collecting tour, 1809-11, when Bradbury was captured by the Indians, but effected his escape. Mr. Nuttall remained in Philadelphia during the winters of the next eight years, studying the collections made in his summer excursions east of the Mississippi, from the Great Lakes to Florida. He lectured on botany to classes in Philadelphia, 1820-22, and was lecturer on natural history and curator and director of the botanic garden. Harvard college, 1825-34. He made a journey over the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia river in 1834, spent two months in 1835 in the Sandwich Islands, and the spring and summer of 1835 on the Pacific coast, returning to the Sandwich Islands and reaching Pliiladelphia. October, 1835. He returned to England in December, 1841. and made a visit of six months in the United States. 1847-48. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Har- vard in 1826 : was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; a member of the 4merican Philosophical society and Academy of

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