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his own request to become pastor of the ^ladison Avenue Congregational cliureh in New York city, where General Grant attended, and served the cliurch, 1883-84. He was re-adinitted to the New York conference in 1885, visited CaUfornia and returned to New York on learning of the fatal illness of General Grant and acted as his spiritual adviser. He was transferred to the Baltimore conference in 1886, was pastor of the Metropolitan church. Washington, D.C., 1880-88, and was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church at the general conference held in New York, 1888, tliough not a member of tliat body. In 1896 he was appointed resident bisliop of California. He served as a commissioner to re-establish fraternal relations between the cimrch north and south in 1876, and was a delegate to the Methodist Ecu- menical conference in London, England, in 1881. He delivered the discourse at General Grant's funeral in 1885, and at Gen. John A. Logan's funeral in 1887. He received the degree D.D. from the University of Rocliester in 1863, and LL.D. from the Otterbein university and Grant Memorial university in 1881. He was a member of the American Geograpliical society and the Society of Biblical Archieologv. He was married, in 1855, to AngelineF., daughter of the Rev. Datus Ensign of the Troy conference. He is the author of: Character of the Resurrection Body (1859); I'roin Dan to Beersheba (1864); Thrones and Palaces of Nineveh (1875); Religions Liberty (1875); Sermons (1877); Christianity Triumphant (1884); Evenings with the Prophets, or the Lost Empires of the World {\SS7); America for Ameri- cans (1880); The Mission of Science (1892); The Supremacy of Law (1892); Aurora Borealis, Amid Icebergs of Greenland's Mountains (1896) ; St. John the Prisoner of Patmos (1896) ; Entire S inctific'ttion (1898); Conversations icith Christ (postluim msly, 1900). His fortune of .$25,000 by the terms of his will was donated to Drew Theo- logical seminary after tiie death of his widow. His library was also given to the seminary. He died at Saratoga. N.Y.. .July 5. 1899.

NEWMAN, Samuel Phillips, educator, was born in Andover, Mass., June 0, 1797; son of Deacon Mark and Sally (Pliillips) Newman. His father, born 177:3. Dartmouth, A.B., 1793, A.M., 1796, was principal of Phillips academy, Andover, Mass. ; li- censed to prea;;li in the Congregational cliurch ; engaged in publisliing religious books; was a trustee of Andover Theological seminary, 179.5- ls36. and died in 1859. Samuel Pliillips Newman was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1816, A.M., 1819, attended Andover Tlieological seminary, 1810-17 ; was professor of the Latin and Greek languages and literature in Bowdoin college, 1820-24 ; of rhetoric and oratory there, 1824-39, and principal of the state normal school at

Barre, Mass., 1839-42. He is the author of: A Practical System of Rhetoric in the Principles and Practice of Style tvith Examples (1829), which passed through sixty editions and reached its sixth London edition in 1846 ; Elements of Politi- cal Economy (1837), and Tlte Southern Eclectic Reader, Parts I. IL and HI. He died at Andover, Mass.. Feb. 10, 1842.

NEWSHAM, Joseph Parkinson, representa- tive, was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, May 24, 1837 ; son of James and Nancy Newsliam. He immigrated to the United States with his parents who settled in Monroe county. III., 1839. He was educated in the public schools of St. Louis, was admitted to tiie bar and practised law in Edwardsville, 111., 1859-61. He entered the Federal army in 1861 ; served as 1st lieutenant of cavalry and on the staffs of Gen. John C. Fre- mont and Gen. Charles F. Smith respectively, 1861-62, and afterwards as adjutant of the 32d Missouri volunteer infantry in Blair's brigade, and was wounded at Chickasaw Bajou, Dec. 28, 1862. He resigned from the service, July 4, 1864, removed to Louisiana, was clerk of the court of Ascension parish, La., and practised law in Donaldsonville, 1865-67. He removed to St. Francisville, La., in 1867 ; was a member of the state constitutional convention, 1868-69 ; held several local offices, and established and edited the West Feliciana Republican, 1868-72. He was a Republican representative in the 40th and 41st congresses, 1808-71. Micliael Ryan, liis Democra- tic opponent, claimed election to the 41st con- gress, but the house decided in favor of Newsham, who took the seat. May 25, 1890. At the close of his term, March 3, 1871, he retired to his planta- tion and subsequently engaged in merchandising in St. Francisville.

NEWTON, Henry, geologist, was born in New York city, Aug. 12, 1845 ; son of Isaac Newton (1794-1858), naval architect. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York, A.B., 1800, and from the School of Mines, Columbia col- lege, E.M., 1809. He was assistant in mineralogy and geology at Columbia, 1870-75, and also as- sisted Prof. John H. Newberry in the Ohio geolo- gical survey. He served as assistant engineer in tlie geological expedition to the Black Hills sent out by the department of the interior, under AValter P. Jenney, 1870-77, and was appointed professor of mining and metallurgy at the Oiiio State university, but before he could enter upon his duties was stricken with the fever while in the Black Hills. The degree of Pli.D. was con- ferred on him by Columbia college in 1876. He was a member of many scientific societies and was a specialist on the metallurgy of iron and steel. He contributed many papers to scientific journals and a Report on the Geology and Re-