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McKinley U.S. minister to the Netherlands in 1897, and was a member of the American delega- tion to the peace conference held at the Hague in May. 1899.

NEWELL, Frederick Haynes, hydrographer, \v;i5 born in Bradfonl. Pa.. Marcli 5, 18G2; son of Augustus William and Annie M. (Haynes) Newell; ist of Needham, Mass., and a descendant in the ninth generation from Abraham Newell, who came from Ipswich, England, in 1G34, and died in Roxbury, Mass., in 1672. He attended the public schools at Needham, and the high school at Newton, Mass.; engaged in mining in Colorado, 1882, and was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.E., in 1885. He was an assistant on the Ohio geological survey, 1885, and in mining and civil engineer- ing in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1886-87. In 1888 he was appointed hydrographer of the U.S. geological survey under ilajor Powell, and was made chief of the division of hydrography in 1890. He was married, April 3. 1890, to Effie Josephine, daughter of John Sherman Mackintosh, a de- scendant of Roger Slierman of Connecticut. He Xvas secretary of the National Geographic society, 1893-93, and 1897-99, and secretary of the Ameri- can Forestry association from 1895. He was elected a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences; fellow of the Geological Society of America, and of the American Association for the Advancament of Science, and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is the author of: Hydrography of the Arid Regions of the United States (1891); Agriculture by Irrigation (189-t); The Pul>lic Lands of the United States (1895); Irrigation in t/ie United States (1902); the annual reports of the U.S. division of hydro- grapliy, a series of pamphlets entitled. Water Supply. Irrigation Papers, and is a writer on geographic, economic and engineering subjects in current magazines.
 * randson of Artemivs Newell, a noted horticultur-

NEWELL, Peter, artist, was born near Ma- omb, 111., Marcli 5, 1862; son of George F. and Louisa (Dodge) Newell, and grandson of Henry and Amanda Dodge. After attending the local schools he engaged in the tobacco trade for a brief period in 1879, and was then employed by a firm of pliotographers and makers of crayon por- traits in Jacksonville, 111. With money saved from his salary he began to study at the Art Stu- dents' league in 1882, and continued to employ his leisure time in making liumorous drawings, which he contributed chiefly to the Harper publi- cations. He won his widest reputation through his work in flat tones, dating from 1893. Some of his serious work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design and at the Atlanta exposi- tion. Besides his quaint drawings with original

captions in verse, his work includes: Topsy Turvey Books (3 vols., 1893, 189-1 and 1902), and illustrations for several books, notably: " The Houseboat on the Styx; " "The Pursuit of the Houseboat," and "Mr. Munchausen,'' by John Kenrick Bangs; " The Great Stone of Sardis," by Frank R. Stockton; " Whilomville Sketches," by Stephen Crane, and a new edition of Lewis Carroll's " Alice in Wonderland'" (1901). Some of his drawings were published in book form as Pictures andRIiynies (1900).

NEWELL, Robert Henry (Orpheus C. Kerr), author, was born in New York city, Dec. 13, 1836. He was a pupil of the public schools; literary editor of the New York Mercury, 1858-62; war correspondent of the New York Herald, 1862-63; a writer on the New York World, 1869-74, and was editor of the Hearth and Home, a weekly journal, 1874-76. He wrote a series of humorous letters on the Civil war under the pen-name Orpheus C. Kerr, which were published in 4 volumes (1862- 68), and is the author of: The Palace Beautiful and other Poems (1865); Avery Glibun, or Between Two Fires, an American romance (1867); 77*6 Cloven Foot, an adaptation of " The Myster}" of Edwin Drood " to American scenes and American readers (1870); Versatilities, poems (1871); The Walking' Doll, novel (1872); Studies in Stanzas (1882). and TJiere Was Once a Man (1884). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y.. about July 1, 1901.

NEWELL, William Augustus, governor of New Jersey, was born in Franklin, Ohio, Sept. 5, 1817; son of James H. and Eliza D. (Hankin- son) Newell; grandson of Hugh Newell, and a descendant of Hugli Newell, a native'of Ireland, who settled in Monmouth county, N.J. He was graduated at Rutgers college, A.B., 1836. A.M., 1839, and from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1839, and practised successively at Mana- hawkin, Imlaystown and AUentown. N.J. He was a Whig representative in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51, introducing on Feb. 6, 1851, a resolution that led to the establishment of the agricultural bureau, and while in congress at- tended professionally John Quincy Adams when stricken with fatal illness in the Representative chamber. He was also family physician to President Lincoln and was selected by New Jersey to represent the state at the funerals of both ex- President Adams and Presi- dent Lincoln. He secured in 1848 an approi)riation of ^10.- 000 for the establishment of life-.saving stations along the New Jersey coast. He was married in December, 1848, to Joanna, daughter of Dr. Will- iam Van Deursen of New Brunswick. He was the first Republican governor of New Jersey,