years to the translation of the Old and New Testaments, to which he added copious notes. His works, which are chiefly in the department of Hebrew philology, are “An Amended Version of the Book of Job” (Cambridge, 1827; 2d ed., Boston, 1838); “The Psalms” (1827); “The Prophets” (1843; 3d ed., 2 vols., 1866); “Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles” (1846); “Theological Essays, Selected from Various Authors” (1856); and “New Translation of the Old Testament,” published after his death (1869). — His son, Stephen Butterick, librarian, b. in Brookfield, Mass., 28 Aug., 1833; d. in Deland, Fla., 8 March, 1885, was graduated at Harvard in 1853, removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1857, and was in charge of the Athenaeum library, out of which grew the Mercantile library, and subsequently the Brooklyn library. He was congressional librarian in Washington. D. C., in 1866-'8, but in the next year returned to his post at the Brooklyn library, where he labored for ten years in the preparation of its catalogue (1881). This work is unrivalled in its system of cross-reference, and is used in other libraries as well as in that for which it was prepared. During his occupation of the office of librarian the Brooklyn library grew from 3,000 to 83,000 volumes.
NOYES, James, clergyman, b. in Wiltshire,
England, in 1608; d. in Newbury, Mass., 22 Oct.,
1656. He was educated at Oxford, came to this
country in 1634, and after a short service in
Medford was pastor of the church in Newbury from 1635
till his death. He published “The Temple Measured”
(London, 1647); “Catechism” (1650,
reprinted in 1691); and “Moses and Aaron, or the
Rights of Church and State” (1661). — His son,
James, clergyman, b. in Newbury, Mass., 11 March,
1640; d. in Stonington, Conn., 30 Dec., 1719, was
graduated at Harvard in 1659, began to preach in
1664, and was pastor of the church in Stonington
from 1674 until his death. He was one of the first
trustees of Yale, a councillor in civil affairs in the
critical periods of his colony, and also practised
medicine with success. — The second James's cousin,
Nicholas, clergyman, b. in Newbury, Mass., 22
Dec., 1647; d. in Salem, Mass., 13 Dec., 1717, was
graduated at Harvard in 1667, and, after preaching
thirteen years in Haddam, removed in 1683 to
Salem, where he was pastor until his death. Although
learned and devout, he engaged bitterly in the
witchcraft persecutions, and was active in the legal
inquiries that were instituted in 1692. He afterward
retracted his opinions, and publicly confessed
his error. He published “Election Sermon” (1698);
a poem on the death of Joseph Green (1715); and
verses prefixed to Cotton Mather's “Magnalia.”
NOYES, James Oscar, author, b. in Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y., 14 June, 1829; d. in New Orleans, La., 11 Sept., 1872. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1850 and at the medical department of Harvard in 1853. He then went abroad, continued his studies in the University of Vienna, visited Wallachia, and was appointed on the medical staff of Omar Pacha, the commander of the Turkish forces. He was afterward correspondent in Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt of the New York "Tribune," the Detroit "Free Press," and other journals. On his return to New York he engaged in literary pursuits, and became proprietor and chief editor of the "Knickerbocker Magazine" in 1858. He went to Fort Monroe, Va., as a newspaper correspondent at the beginning of the civil war, engaged in various army contracts, and subsequently in planting. He settled in New Orleans after the war, was appointed commissioner of immigration for the state of Louisiana, and in that capacity revisited Europe. He was the originator of an enterprise for connecting Mississippi river with the Gulf of Mexico by a ship-canal below New Orleans, and of one for draining that city. At the time of his death he was an active member of the New Orleans academy of arts and sciences. He published "Roumania" (New York, 1857) and "The Gypsies" (1858).
NOYES, John Humphrey, religionist, b. in Brattleborough, Vt., 6 Sept., 1811; d. in Niagara Falls, Canada, 13 April, 1886. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1830, and studied law, but subsequently took a theological course at Andover and Yale seminaries, and was licensed to preach in 1833. While a theological student he fell under the influence of revivalist preachers, and in 1834 experienced what he called a "second conversion," and announced himself a perfectionist. His license to preach was annulled, and he began to speak and teach on the subject of his new faith, his doctrine being that the existing forms of religion were all wrong, that God possessed a dual body — male and female — and that salvation from sin was a special phase of experience that had for its basis spiritual intercourse with this dual divinity, and was able, even in this life, to perfect its believers. Having founded a community, to whose members he gave the name of Perfectionists, he settled with them in Putnam county, Vt., and for the first twelve years of his ministry confined his labors to them. But, having adopted some of the principles of Fourierism, and induced his followers to attempt the experiment of communal living, he was driven out of Putnam county by the force of public opinion, and in 1848 removed with his followers to Oneida, Madison co., N. Y., and established there what has since been known as the Oneida community. He made many attempts to establish similar organizations, but only two prospered. The one at Oneida consisted in 1874 of 235 members, and that at Wallingford, Conn., of 40. They adopted what they called "complex marriage," maintained the equality of the sexes in social and business life, lived in a "unity house," and engaged in farming and manufactures, owning about $500,000 worth of property. A few years later they were forced to abandon the institution of complex marriage, and their other customs fell into disuse. A few followers still survive (1888), but the community is without a leader and little esteemed in its own locality. Noyes edited the "Oneida Circular" in 1834-'40, in which he promulgated his views, and published "The Second Coming of Christ" (Wallingford, Conn., 1859); "Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith" (1869); "History of American Socialism" (Philadelphia, 1870); and several expositions of the practices in his community.
NOYES, William Curtis, jurist, b. in Schodack, Rensselaer co., N. Y., 19 Aug., 1805; d. in New York city, 25 Dec, 1864. He began the study of law, when he was fourteen years of age, in the office of Samuel B. Ludlow, of Albany. His parents soon afterward removed to Oneida county, where he entered the office of Henry R. Storrs, and in 1827 completed his studies and was admitted to the bar. While yet under the age of thirty he was appointed district attorney of Oneida county, and soon rose to the front rank of the profession there. Later he removed to New York city. He was never a politician, but took a deep interest in public affairs, being a man of extensive reading and learning. His conversational powers were of the highest order. His appreciation of beauty, art, and literature was cultivated and pure, and he was surrounded
