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into several foreign languages and liad a large circulation in Holland. Siie is tiie author of: Eleanor Willoiighby (1870); St. August iiu's Lad- der (1872); Judge Branard's Infantry (If^lo); Under Shelter (1876); Out of the Tlav/ (1877); The Queer House in Rugby Court (1878); Silas Gower's Daughter (1878); Uncle Jack's E.vecutors (1880); Eunice Lathrop, Spinster (1881); Hoiv Billy u^ent rip in the World (1883); Miss Janet's Old House ( 1884); The Professor's Dilemma (1885); The Crazy Angel (1888), and many stories for the young.

NOBLE, Frederick Alphonso, minister, was born in Baldwin, Maine, March 17, 1833; son of James and Jane (Cram) Noble; grandson of George and Sarah (Spencer) Noble, and of Joseph and Abigail (Pugsley) Cram, and a descendant of Christopher Noble, a soldier in the Revolution, whose ancestors came to America from England at a date not established. He was graduated from Yale in 1858; attended Andover Theological seminary, ilass., 1858-GO, and Lane Theological seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861, and was or- dained to the ministry by the presbytery of Min- nesota, July 16, 1862. He was pastor of the House of Hope church, St. Paul, Minn., 1862-68; tiie Tliird church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1868-75; Center church. New Haven, Conn., 1875-79. and Union Park church, Chicago, 111.. 1879-1901. He re- signed his pastorate in 1901, and gave his time to literary work. He was twice married: first. Sept. 15, 1861, to Lucy Augusta Perry of Dummerston, Vt., who died. June 7, 1895, and secondly, July 1, 1897. to Leila Moss Crandon of Evanston, 111. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Western Reserve college in 1872, and that of LL.D. by Oberlin college in 1899. He was elected president of the American Missionary as- .sociatioii in 1898; first president of tiie New West Education commission in 1882, and was a delegate to the missionary conference held at London, England, in 1888; to the International council of the Congregational churches, London, in 1891, and to the second council held at Boston, Mass., in September, 1899, of which last he was first vice-president. He is the author of: Divine Life in Man (1896); Discourses on Philippians (1897): Oar Redemption (1898); Typical Xeir Testament Conversion (1901); The P/Vf/rir/is (1902). and many pamphlets on civil, educational and religious sub- jects. He was a resident of Phillips, Franklin county, Maine, in 1902.

NOBLE, James, senator, was born near Berry- ville, Clarke county, Va., Dec. 16, 1785; son of Thomas and Betty Clair (Sedgwick) Noble. His parents removed to Campbell county, Ky. . in 1795, and he studied law vmder Richard South- gate of Newport, Ky., and was admitteil to the bar in Lawrenceburgh, Ind. He was married.

April 7. 1803. to Mary Lindsey of Cincinnati, Oliio. He -settled in Brookville, Franklin county, Indiana Territory, in 1811; served as a member of the territorial legislature for several years, and on the admission of the state in 1816 was elected to the U.S. senate, and was re-elected in 1821 and 1827, serving until his death, which occurred in Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 1831.

NOBLE, John Willcox, cabinet officer, was born in Lancaster, Ohio. Oct. 26, 1831; son of John and Catharine (McDill) Noble, and grand- son of Samuel and (Mary Patter.son) Noble. He attended Miami university; was graduated at Yale, 1851; studied law at Columbus, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar there in 1853, and in St. Louis, Mo., in 1855. He practised in Col- umbus, Ohio. 1853, St. Louis,Mo., 1855-1856; and in Keokuk, Iowa, 1856-1861; was city attorney of Keokuk, 1859-60, and in 1861 enlisted in the 3d Iowa volunteer cav- alry, being mustered 1st lieutenant and ad- jutant in August, 1861, and becoming major, lieutenant-col- onel and colonel in tliis regiment. He

was judge advocate of the Army of the South- west and afterward of the department of the ^Missouri. He took part in the battle of Pea Ridge and the siege of Vicksburg, and served under Gen. Andrew J. Smith against Forrest, and under Gen. James H. Wilson in Alabama and Georgia. He was brevetted brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers to date, March 13, 1865. and was mustered out of the service in August, 1865. He was married, Feb. 6, 1864, to Lizabeth, daughter of Hatfield Halstead of Northampton, Mass. He resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., 1865; was U.S. district attorney for Ililissouri, 1867-70; received the thanks of President Grant before the cabinet in 1869, and declined the solicitor generalship offered by tiie President. He was secretary of the inte- rior in President Harrison's cabinet, 1889-93. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Miami university in 1889 and from Yale uni- versity in 1891.

NOBLE, Louis Legrand, clergyman, poet and author, was born in New Lisbon, N.Y., Sept. 26, 1811; son of Sylvanus and Sally (Tuttle) Noble; grandson of Elnathan and Johannah (Bostwick) Noijle, and of Jeremiah Tuttle, and a descendant of Thomas and Hannah( Warriner) Noble. Thomas

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