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elation; was a fonmier, secretary and president of the New York library club, and at the Pan-Amer- ican exposition, 1901, was awarded " honorable mention " for his catalogue of the Astor library. He was married, July 2o, 1873, to Emma, daughter of Benson and Eliza (Quick) Norris of Slaterville Springs, N.Y. He was the Boston correspondent of the American Bookseller. 1875-81; a member of the editorial stalT of The Tra^f/ima?jand of Zioii's Herald, 1876-88; compiled and edited Catalogue of the Astor Library (4 vols., 1886-88); edited Catalogue of the Avery Memorial Library (1895); comi»iIed Books on Education in the Libraries of Columbia Univei'sity (1901). and is the author of: Waltham, Past and Present (1879); Weston, in Samuel A. Drake's "History of Middlesex County, ^lass.'' (1888), and The ManuscrijJts and Early Printed Books Bequeathed to the Long Island Historical Society by S. B. Duryea (1897).

NELSON, Cleland Kinloch, third bishop of Georgia and 160th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Greenwood, near Cobham, Albemarle county, Va., May 23, 1853; son of Keating S. and Julia (Rogers) Nelson, and a lineal descendant of William Nelson, president of Virginia colony, and of Gen, Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. He was graduated at St. John's college, 1872; studied for the priesthood under his uncle, the Rev. Dr. C. K. Nelson, and at the Berkeley divinity school, Conn. He was ordained deacon in the church of the Ascension, Wasliington, D.C., Sept. 19, 1875, and priest in Holy Trinity church, Pliiladelphia, Pa., June 22, 187G. He was rector of the church of St. John the Baptist, Germantown, Pa., 1876-82, and of the Cliurch of the Nativity, Soutli Bethlehem, Pa., 1882-92. He was elected bishop of Georgia, Nov. 12, 1891, and was consecrated in St. Luke's cathedral, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24, 1892, by Bishops Quintard, W. B. W. Howe, Lyman, Whitehead, Rulison, Coleman, Jackson and Watson.

NELSON, David, educator, was born near Jonesbcjrough, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1793; son of Henry and Anna (Kelsey) Nelson. He was a student at Washington college, Tenn.; studied medicine at Danville, Ky., and in Pliiladelphia, and was a surgeon in the war of 1812, in Canada and in Alabama and Florida. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Holston in April, 1825, and while preaching in Tennessee conducted the Calvinistic Magazine, Rogersville. On the death of his brother, Samuel Kelsey Nelson, May 27, 1827, he succeeded him as pastor of the churcli at Danville, Ky. He was a trustee of Centre college, 1827-30. He founded Marion college, near Palmyra, Mo., in 1830, and was its president, 1830-36. In 1836 he removed to Quincy, 111., and established a school for young men. He

is the author of Cause and Cure of Lifidelity (1836.) He died in Oakland, 111., Oct. 17, 1844.

NELSON, Hugh, representative, was born in Yorktown, Va., Sept. 30, 1768; son of Gov. Tliomas and Lucy (Grymes) Nelson; grandson of Gov. AVilliam Nelson, and of Philip and Mary (Randolph) Grymes, and a great-grandson of Thomas Nelson, a native of Scotland, who .settled in Virginia in 1690, and founded the town of York in 1705. Hugh Nelson was graduated at the College of Williani and Mary in 1790, was a member of the house of delegates in the Virginia legislature, speaker of the house and a judge of the general court. He was married in 1799 to Eliza Kinlock. He was a presidential elector on the Pinckney and King ticket in 1808, and was a Republican representative in the 12th-lSth con- gresses, serving from Nov. 4, 1811, to Jan. 14, 1823. He resigned to accept the appointment by President Monroe of U.S. minister to Spain, and held the office until Nov. 23, 1824. He died in Albemarle county, Va., March 18, 1836.

NELSON, Jeremiah, representative, was born at Rowley. Mass., Sept. 18, 1768; son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Mighill) Nelson; grandson of Solomon and Mercy (Chaplin) Nelson, and a descendant of Thomas Nelson, who emigrated from England to America in Mr. Rogers's com- pany, and settled in Rowley, Mass., where he was made freeman, May 23, 1639. Jeremiah Nelson was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1790, A.M., 1793. He studied law, settling in New- buryport, Mass., as a merchant, became engaged in the West India trade, and in marine and fire insurance. He was the first president of the Newburyport Mutual Fire Insurance company, 1829-36; treasurer of the Newburyport Insti- tution of Savings, 1827-38; chairman of the selectmen of the town at the time of the great fire of 1811, and held several other important local offices. He married Mary, daughter of John Balch of Newburyport. He became a leader in Federal politics; was a representative to the general court in 1804; a presidential elector in 1812; a Federalist representative in the 9th congress, 1805-07, succeeding Rev. Man- asseh Cutler in 1805, and a W^liig representa- tive in the 14th-18th congresses, 1815-25, and in the second session of the 22d congress, from Dec. 6, 1832, to Marcli 2, 1833, to fill the unex- pired term of Rufus Choate, resigned. He was chairman of the committee on public buildings, 1821-24. From 1830 to 1836 he was prominently engaged in the pro.secution of Spanish and French claims, being attorney for most of the claimants in Newburyport and vicinity. He died at Newl)i]ryport, Mass., Oct. 2. 1838.

NELSON, John, cabinet officer, was born in Fredericktown, Md., June 1, 1791; son of Roger