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NOTT NUBANCB. 



uatod t South Can.Vmi C .liege in 1S14, was admitted 

 Iwr in 1*1 N', and wax professor of |"L-IC an. I 

 philosophy in lii.t .-l/Hi-i M>iirr fur thirteen years. 

 \Vhile returning from New York he was drowned off 

 theeoartof North ('.ir..lii,.-i. Oct I.;. 1837. Ho pub- 



',lt,,,.f,, .-' Vols . I- 



thers .ti .I'-IAII C: AUK N<m (I SIM- 1 s::{). eth- 



nolugist w.i- U.n- at Columbia, S. C . March ::l. IsuJ. 

 .dilated at South Carolina College in IS'Jl. and 

 obtained l! f M . l>. ill Philadelphia in ISJ7. 



After acting :L- demonstrator of anatomy to I>r. Phys- 

 ick for two \ear>. he IH-IMII pradiiv at Columbia. S, C. 

 In IN.;:, he went to Kiirope, and after his return set 

 tied at Mobile. In Is."i7 he was made professor of 

 aiiat-iinv in the I'nivcrsity of Ixiuisiana. and in I.N.YN 

 cstabli-'hcd a medical coll. -ire at Mobile which received 

 an endowment from the Stale of Alabama. He died 

 lie. March :il. 1S7.(. He published Biblical 

 ,in,( l'hii*ir>il ///Von/'/ M'ui (isi'.i) ; Pkjfttonl History 

 of thf Jnri,h /{.iff ( IS50) : 7>/;x-x of Mankind (1854) ; j 

 and Iniliijrnoii* It'ifrs of I/if /,'<////! (IS.~>7). being: 

 assisted iii the last two by(J. H. (iliddon. He held 

 the theory of a diverse origin of the several races of 

 mankind and the inferiority of the neirro. 



Another son. C'-IVMS Ap'U.I'lirs NOTT (1810- 

 beeani'- professor of anatomy in the University 

 ii.-iana in ls:i'.. and materia medica and thera- 

 peutics in I s I s - He was a surgeon in the Confederate 

 army, lie died at Montgomery. Ala.. June >, 1875. 

 \"TT. RuraAUT (1773-1866), president of Union 

 College, was IMIHI at Ashford. Conn.. June 1!5, 1773. 

 dilated at Brown I'niversity in 17'.i5and became 

 of a Presbyterian church and principal of an 

 ny at Cherry Valley. N. \. In 17'.iS be re- 

 nimed to Albany, where he acquired celebrity as a 

 pulpit orator. His sermon on the death of Alexander 

 Hamilton is one of the most famous specimen- of 

 American pulpit eloquence. In 1804 he was elected 

 president of Tnion College. Scheneetady, N. Y., which 

 was then a feeble institution with only 14 students; but 

 under his judicious management it increased steadily 

 in numbers and usefulness. In 1854 the semi-centen- 

 nial anniversary of his inauguration was celebrated 

 with great enthusiasm by over 600 graduates. Alto- 

 gether more than 3700 students graduated in his pres- 

 idency. Towards the end of his life he was relieved 

 to some extent of the duties of his office. He had 

 also been prominent in church affairs, and in 1811 was 

 moderator of the Presbyterian (leneral Assembly. 

 Besides taking much interest in natural science he 

 made several useful inventions. His noteworthy im- 

 proveni-nts in stoves caused them to be generally 

 n- d instead of open hearths for heating dwellings. 

 Philanthropic movements, and especially the temper- 

 ance cause, enlisted his services. After a long life 

 spent iii active lM-neficencc, he died at .Schenectady, 

 N. Y.. Jan. '2'J. ISGo. Among his publications are 

 i'oiin'il* in YOIIHI/ .\fm (isi(i) ; Luxiiire* on I 



is 17); ReatrrtetitM of Chrint (IX7i>). II is .}(<- 

 iiiim were published by II. Van Sanlvoord (|S7o). 



II - brother. S \\H-KI. NO-IT. I). It (1764-1862), WM 

 lx>ni at Saybrook. Conn.,. Ian _:;. 17.M. lie jrradu- 

 atcd at Yale Colleire in I7S;I and became pastor of the 

 Con '.'relational t-lmreh at Fairfield. Conn, in 17S-J. 

 IH- laUired for seventy years, until his death, 

 .M iy J' 1 -. I 



SVMI KI. NIITT (1788-18G9), son of the preceding. 



'nion College in |SUS and at Andover 



: Seminary in IslO. Being ordained Feb. 



'-. |N|-J. Iii! was sent as misionary to India by the 



Amei I of Commissioner- of Foreign Mis 



On account of ill hci.lth he returned in 1816,) 

 and t.iuirht in New York until lsJ. He afterward* 

 held I. Y., and \Vaieham. 



\i the i liter in ISJ'.I he founded an a<-ademy 

 .ii.l i-le I until is',-. He died at Hartford'. 

 Conn.. Juno I. 14091 He piii.li-he.l ,S'/./r<ry ,/,/ tlif 

 /,-. 



NOYKS. flr-onr.E RAP\U. (170S-lRf,s). Biblical 

 seholar, was born at Newburyport. Mi-- , M.udi r.. 

 I7'.IS lie .graduated at Harvard Colleu'e in IMS and 

 studied theology at Cambridge Mivinitv School, He 

 was licensed to preach in ISl'J and held pastorates at 

 Brookfleld and at I'etersham. M;iss. Ill ISll) he was 

 made professor of llelirew and Oriental languages and 

 IVxtcr lecturer on Bililical literature. Besides many 

 reviews and sermons he published new translation-, 

 with notes, of several book.- of tin- Old Testament. 

 After his death his translation of the New Ti -lament 

 from Tischendorf s text was edited by l>r. K/.ra Ali- 

 bot (1868). He died at Cambridge, Mass., June 3, 



NOYKS. JOHN HI-.MIMIRKY (1811-188C), oom- 

 inunist, was lirn at Brattleboro. Vt.. Sept. ',',, isll. 

 He graduated at Dartmouth College in I Sit), studied 



y at Andoverand New Haven, and was li 

 to preach in 1833. A year later he U-gan to advocate! 

 "perfectionism.'' and his license wa- revoked. In 

 |N.;S he established a communistic society at Putney, 

 Vt.. and in 1*47 removed it to Madi.-on co. , N. Y., 

 when' it was called the Oneida Community, for which 

 see KM-VCI.I.I'.KIIIA BUITANMCA. A s--coiid commu- 

 nity was established at \Vallingford.Conu. In JssiJ 

 the people of Oneida county became thoroughly 

 roused against the immoral practices prevailing in the. 

 Community and obt ined power from the legislature 

 to stop them. The members then renounced their 

 obnoxious practices at i formed a business corporation. 

 ' lis 



N'oycs ]inblished some periodicals, of which the 

 Circiilnr was t!ie chief. I ! also puhli.-hed Tli? l> 

 Sulrittinn fnnn Sin, liibli' ('niii/iiiiiiisin. Ilixlnry nf 

 Ani'-i-ii-'in S'H-iii/ix/iix. lie died at Niagara Falls, 

 Canada. April 13. I8t 



NTBAli PASHA, an K-yptian statesman, was 

 born at Smyrna in January. l^J"). of an Armenian 



Christian family. He was early taken to F.uropc and 

 educated in Switzerland and France. In 1842 he went 

 to Kgypt to become secretary of Bogos-Bey. a relative, 

 who was then minister of foreign affairs. Two years 

 later he became secretary-interpreter to Mehcmet Aii 

 and afterwards to Ibrahim Pasha. His influence. 

 steadily increased, and Abbas Pasha, in 1850, sent 

 him to London to support the claims of Kgypt against 

 Turkey, and also on other diplomatic missions. Under 

 Said Pasha (I854-C3), though not always iu favor, he 

 was able to construct the railroad from Suez to Cairo, 

 in spite of great natural and financial difficulties. Is- 

 mail Pasha employed Nubar as his agent with the 

 Sultan, and thus obtained various important conces- 

 sions. His next negotiations were at Paris with refer- 

 ence to the Suez Canal, and on his return to Kirypt he 

 was made minister of (ho public works. Towards tlie. 

 end of Jsi'iii he was made minister of foreign affairs, 

 and, having gone to Constantinople, he obtained from 

 the Sultan for his master the title of Khedive, while 

 Kirypt was made practically independent. Nubar 

 Pashas efforts were then directed to introducing 

 Kuropean customs into the administration of affairs. 

 He was driven from power in May. l>7t. but was re- 

 stored a year later. Again removed early in 1870, he 

 did not return until Kngland and France had inter- 

 vened and required a complete reconstruction of the, 

 financial afl'.iii's in favor of the bondholders of Western 

 Knrope. Nubar Pasha become president of the. 

 cabinet Anir. -'. 1S7S, hut the discontent of the native 

 Iv-'.vptians with the new methods of taxation and ad- 

 ministration obliged him to resign six months later 

 and even to leave the country for a time. Durini; the 

 revolt of AKAHI PASHA (</. r.) and the Knulish inter- 

 vention. Nubar Pasha remained quiet. At last, "ii 

 Jan. S, ]s v l. he was called airain to the head of :if- 

 f.itis. an I Iii- administration has been favorable to the 

 interest- of the British government, and yet more ae- 

 ,-. pt-ilile lo i lie F.L-yptians than fmnierly. 



NTIS \NCIv American law has el,.-i-l\- followed 

 ilr- KiiL-li.-h in defining ibis tenn and pruacribtng tka 



