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search, publislied monthly by the American Chemical society, and is the author of : A De- tailed Course of Qualitative Chemical Analysis of I)wrga7iic Substances (1895); Tlie General Prin- ciples of Physical Science (1901); and, with S. P. Mulliken, Laboratory Experiments on the Class Reactions and Identification of Organic Sub- stances (1899) ; also of forty original papers de- scribing reseaches in theoretical and organic chemistry.

NOYES, Edward Follensbee, governor of Ohio, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Oct. 3, 1832; son of Theodore and Hannah (Stevens) Greely Noyes. H(^ learned the printer's trade in Dover, N.H., prepared for college at Kingston academy, grad- uated at Dartmouth college in 1857, and studied law under William Wier Stickney and Amos Tuck, at Exeter, N.H. He was graduated at the Cincinnati Law school in 1858, practised in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858-61, and enlisted in the 39th Ohio volunteer infantry. He was appointed major of the regiment, July 8, 1861, served in the Missouri campaign of that year ; at the siege of New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Corinth, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel, July 8, -1862, and colonel, Oct. 1, 1862. He was with his regiment in the battles of luka, Parker's Cross Roads, Resaca, Dallas, and Bluff Mills, Ga., where he lost a leg, while leading an assault upon the enemy's works, July 4, 186-4. He took command of Camp Dennison, Ohio, in the autumn of 1864 ; was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and left the army April 22, 1865. He was married, Feb. 15, 1863, to Margaretta, daughter of Benjamin Proctor of Kingston, Ohio. He was city solicitor of Cincinnati, 1865-67 ; judge of the probate court for Hamilton covmty, 1867-70, and was elected governor of Ohio by the Republican party in 1371, serving, 1871-73. He was de- feated for re-election in 1873, by William Allen, Democrat, was appointed U.S. minister to France by President Hayes in 1877, and made several of- ficial visits to Turkej' during the Russo-Turkish war, and was a special U.S. commissioner to the Paris exposition. He re- turned in August, 1881, resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati, and was elected judge of the superior court of Hamilton county for a term of five years in 1889. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1890.

NOYES, George Rapall, theologian, was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 6, 1798; son of Nathaniel and Mary (Rapall) Noyes ; and a de- scendant of William Noyes who was instituted rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire, England, in 1602, and of his son Nicholas, who with his brother the


Rev. James Noyes, came to Ipswich, Mass., in the Mary and John in 1604. He was fitted for college at Newburyport academy, and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1818, A.M., 1821. During his college course he taught school three winters and after leaving college took charge of the academy in Framingham for one year. He studied at the Cambridge divinity school, 1819-22, and was licensed to preach in 1822, but remained in Cambridge as a teacher until 1825, then as tutor in the college until 1827, devoting his spare time to the study of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures and literature. He was married, May 8, 1828, to Eliza Wheeler Buttrick, of Framingham, Mass. He was pastor of the First Congregational church at Brookfield, 1827-34 ; pastor of the First Uni- tarian society at Petersham, Mass., 1834-40 ; and Hancock professor of Hebrew and other oriental languages, and Dexter lecturer on biblical litera- ture at Harvard college, 1840-68. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Harvard in 1839, was chosen a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1844, and was generally recognized as an eminent Greek and Hebrew scholar. His published works include : An Amended Version of the Book of Job, u-ith Introduction and Notes (1827); A New Transla- tion of the Book of Psalms (1831): A Neti' Translation of the Hebrew Prophets arranged in Chronological Order (3 vols., 1833-37); A Neiv Translation of the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Canticles (1846); TJieological Essays from Various Authors {1S6Q); and TlieNew Testament Translated from the Greek Text of Tischendorf (1869). He also published numerous tracts, sermons and periodical articles. A revised edition in four volumes of his old testament translations was published in 1867-68. He died in Cambridge, Mass., June 3, 1868.

NOYES, Stephen Buttrick, librarian, was born in Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 28, 1833 : son of the Rev. George Rapall and Eliza Wheeler (Buttrick) Noyes. He was graduated at Harvard in 1853, and removed to Brooklyn, N.Y.. in 1857 to take charge of the library of the Brooklyn Athengeum which under his direction outgrew its home and became the Mercantile library and later the Brooklyn library. He assisted Ains- worth R. Spofford, the librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1866-68, and in 1871-81 pre- pared a complete cross-reference catalogue of the 60.000 volumes in the Brookh'n library which was publislied in 1881 and accepted by librarians of the United States and England as a model. He died in Deland, Fla., March 8, 1885.

NOYES, Theodore William, editor, was born in Washington, D.C.. Jan. 26,1858 ; son of Crosby Stuart and Elizabeth Selina (Williams) Noyes. He was graduated fron: Columbian university,