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Pa., 1840-53; of the same at Franklin and Mar- shall college at Lancaster. Pa., 1853-73 ; of English literature and belles lettres there, 1872-86, and was professor emeritus, 1886-92. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dickinson college in 1881. He was married to Hannah Jane McClay of Siiippensburg, and secondly, in 1854, to Mrs. Adelaid (Mellier) Irwin, daughter of Amadie Mellier of Switzerland. He contributed to reli- gious periodicals and is the autiior of verse and prose. He died in Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 11, 1892.

NEVIUS, Elbert, missionary clergyman, was born at Six Mile Run. Franklin Park, N.J., Sept. 4, 1808 : son of John P. and Gertrude (Hageman) Nevius, and grandson of Peter P. Nevius and of Benjamin Hageman. He was a lineal descendant of Johannes and Adriaentze (Bleyck) Nevius. Joiianues Nevius was born inZoclen, Gelderland, Holland, in 1627, settled in New Amsterdam, previous to 1652, where he held government office, and died in Brooklyn in 1672. Elbert attended the Ovid academy and was graduated from Rutgers college in 1830 and from the theolo- gical seminary at New Brunswick in 1834. He was married. November, 1835, to Maria Louisa Condict. He was ordained bj' the classis of Cayuga in 1834 and was pastor in Cayuga county, 1834-36 ; missionary to tlie Island of Borneo, ex- ploring regions which no white man had pre- viously penetrated, 1836—44, and in 1844 returned to the United States and presented the cause among the churches, 1844-46. He was pastor of the Reformed church of Stuyvesant. N.Y., 1846- 86. He is the author of : Sketch of Classis of Rensselaer ; an article on Rev. W. J. Pohlman in " Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit," and contributions to the Christian Intelligencer and other religious journals. He died at Stuy- vesant. N.Y.. Sept. 29, 1897.

NEVIUS, John Livingston, missionary, was lx)rn in Ovid, N.Y., March 4, 1829; son of Benjamin Hageman and Mary (Denton) Nevius ; grandson of John P. and Gertrude (Hageman) Nevius, and a descendant of Joliannes Nevius, the immigrant. He was a student at Ovid academy, 1838-45 ; was graduated at Union college in 1848 ; was prin- cipal of Ovid academy, 1849-50, and engaged in teaching school in Columbus, Ga., 1850. He was graduated at Princeton theological seminary in 1853: was ordained by the presbytery of New Brunswick, May 4, 1853, and engaged in mission- arj- work. He was a missionary of the Presbyterian board at Ningpo. China. 1853-59 ; at Hang Cliau. 1859-60 ; spent nine months in Japan, 1860, and was at Tung-Chau and Chefoo in Shantung, 1861-93. He is credited with having been the first to introduced American fruits in China, and the Ciiinese government presented him with testimonials for his aid in distributing relief to

the natives in the famines of 1877 and 1889. He visited England and the United States, 1864-68, and made a second visit to the United Statfs in 1881-82, and a third in 1890-92. He was a mem- ber of the committee for revising the Scriptures in Mandarin about 1892. He was married, June 5, 1853, to Helen S. Coan, daughter of Dr. Coan of Seneca county, N.Y. She accompanied him to China, Sept. 19, 1853, reaching Shanghai, March 12, 1854, aided him in his missionary work and is the author of : A Catechism of Chris- tian Doctrine, in Ciiinese (1856); Onr Life in China (1857), SLud The Life of John Livingston iYer/i<.s (1895). Dr. Nevius received the degree of D.D. from Union in 1869. He published in English : China and the Chinese (1868) ; San Poh, or North of the Hills ; Methods of 3Iissio7i Work (1886), and Demon Possessions (1892); and in Chinese, classic Chinese and tlie Ningpo dialect : Guide to Heaven (1857); The Two Lights; Errors of Ancestral Worship) ; Guide to Evangelists ; Systematic TJieology (3 vols.); explanation of the True Doctrine ; Commentary on the Acts ; Mark's Gospel u'ith Notes ; 3Ianual for Liquirers, Evan- gelists and Cut-Stations ; Questions on Matthetc's Gospel on the Acts, icith Commentary ; Questions on the Romans icith Analysis for Bible and Tlieo- logical Classes ; Defence of Protestantism against Romanism (1890), and with other writers Ttie Westminster Standards and a Mandarin Hymn- Book. He died at Temple Hill, Chefoo, Shantung, China, Oct. 19, 1893.

NEW, Anthony, representative, was born in Gloucester county, Va., in 1747. He served as colonel in the Revolutionary army, and was an anti-Federalist representative in the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7tli and 8th congresses, 1793-1805. He re- moved to Elkton, Todd countjs Ky., and was a representative from that state in the 12th. 15th and 17th congresss, 1811-13, 1817-19 and 1821-23. He died near Elkton. Ky., March 2, 1833.

NEW, Jeptha Dudley, jurist, was born in Vernon, Ind., Nov. 28, 1830; son of Hickman and Smyra Ann (Smytha) New, and a descendant of Jethro New, a soldier in the Revolution. He was prepared for college at Vernon seminary, matriculated at Bethany college, but did not graduate. He learned the cabinet making trade of his father, taught school and began the prac- tice of law in Franklin, Ind., in 1856, removing to Vernon in 1857. He was married, April 5, 1857, to Sallie Butler. He was district attorney, 1862-64 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1864-68 ; a Democratic representative from the fourth district of Indiana in the 44th and 46th congresses, 1873-75 and 1677-79. He served as chairman of the committee to investigate charges against George W. Seward, U.S. minister to China, and of the committee sent to Louisiana