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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Thomas, James

Edition of 1889.
​THOMAS, James, governor of Maryland, b. in St. Mary's county, Md., 11 March, 178o ; d. there, 25 Dec, 1845. His father, William, served as a private in the " Maryland line," and was for many years president of the state senate. The son was educated at Charlotte Hall academy, and was graduated at the Philadelphia medical college in 1807. In April, 1812, he was commissioned major of the 4th volunteer cavalry, and he afterward became major-general of Maryland militia. Subsequently he served in the state senate, and in 1833-'6 was governor of Maryland.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Thurston, Asa

Edition of 1889.
​THURSTON, Asa, missionary, b. in Fitchburg, Mass., 12 Oct., 1787; d. in Honolulu, Hawaii, 11 March, 1868. He worked at the trade of scythe-making till he was twenty-two years old, then fitted himself for college, was graduated at Yale in 1816, and passed through the course of theological instruction at Andover seminary. On his graduation in 1819 he was ordained as a missionary, and on 23 Oct. sailed with his wife for the Sandwich islands. He established himself at Kailua, Hawaii, where he resided for more than forty years, retiring to Honolulu when incapacitated by paralysis for continued active work. He was a pioneer among the missionaries to the Sandwich islands, and instructed two of the kings while they still resided at Kailua. He also translated a large part of the Bible into the Hawaiian language.—His wife, Lucy Goodale, b. in Marlborough, Mass., 29 Oct., 1795; d. in Honolulu, Hawaii, 13 Oct., 1876, was educated at the academy in Bradford, Mass., and taught until she married and went to the Sandwich islands. She left an autobiography which was completed by Persis G. Taylor, her daughter, and Rev. Walter Freer, and published under the title of “Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston” (Ann Arbor, 1876).—Their son, Thomas Gairdner, was graduated at Yale in 1862, studied theology, and returned to Hawaii, where he preached until the time of his death in 1884.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/From the Epistles of Alexander/From an Epistle to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria

IV. From an Epistle to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria.
And he—i.e., Demetrius—has added to his letter that this is a matter that was never heard of before, and has never been done now,—namely, that laymen should take part in public speaking, when there are bishops present. But in this assertion he has departed evidently far from the truth by some means. For, indeed, wherever there are found persons capable of profiting the brethren, such persons are exhorted by the holy bishops to address the people. Such was the case at Laranda, where Evelpis was thus exhorted by Neon; and at Iconium, Paulinus was thus exhorted by Celsus; and at Synada, Theodorus also by Atticus, our blessed brethren. And it is probable that this is done in other places also, although we know not the fact.

## Footnotes

* ↑ In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., ch. xix.
* ↑ Demetrius is, for honour’s sake, addressed in the third person. Perhaps ἡ σὴ ἁγιότης or some such form preceded.
* ↑ ὁμιλεῖν.
* ↑ [This precise and definite testimony is not to be controverted. It follows the traditions of the Synagogue (Acts xiii. 15), and agrees with the Pauline prescription as to the use of the charismata in 1 Cor. xiv. The chiefs of the Synagogue retained the power of giving this liberty, and this passed to the Christian authorities.]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/From the Epistles of Alexander/From an Epistle to Origen

III. From an Epistle to Origen.
For this, as thou knowest, was the will of God, that the friendship subsisting between us from our forefathers should be maintained unbroken, yea rather, that it should increase in fervency and strength. For we are well acquainted with those blessed fathers who have trodden the course before us, and to whom we too shall soon go: Pantænus, namely, that man verily blessed, my master; and also the holy Clement, who was once my master and my benefactor; and all the rest who may be like them, by whose means also I have come to know thee, my lord and brother, who excellest all.

## Footnotes

* ↑ In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., ch. xiv.
* ↑ [This contemporary tribute confirms the enthusiastic eulogy of the youthful Gregory. See p. 38, supra.]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/From the Epistles of Alexander
## Contents

* An Epistle to the People of Antioch
* From an Epistle to the Antinoites
* From an Epistle to Origen
* From an Epistle to Demetrius, Bishop of Alexandria
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/From the Epistles of Alexander/An Epistle to the People of Antioch

From the Epistles of Alexander.
I. An Epistle to the People of Antioch.
Alexander, a servant and prisoner of Jesus Christ, sends greeting in the Lord to the blessed church of Antioch. Easy and light has the Lord made my bonds to me during the time of my imprisonment since I have learned that in the providence of God, Asclepiades—who, in regard to the right faith, is most eminently qualified for the office—has undertaken the episcopate of your holy church of Antioch. And this epistle, my brethren and masters, I have sent by the hand of the blessed presbyter Clement, a man virtuous and well tried, whom ye know already, and will know yet better; who also, coming here by the providence and supervision of the Master, has strengthened and increased the Church of the Lord.

## Footnotes

* ↑ A fragment. In Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.
* ↑ It was the opinion of Jerome in his Catalogusthat the Clement spoken of by Alexander was Clement of Alexandria. This Clement, at any rate, did live up to the time of the Emperor Severus, and sojourned in these parts, as he tells us himself in the first book of his Stromateis. And he was also the friend of bishop Alexander, to whom he dedicated his book On the Ecclesiastical Canon, or Against the Jews, as Eusebius states in his Eccles. Hist., book vi. ch. xiii. (Migne). [But from the third of these epistles one would certainly draw another inference. How could he, a pupil of Clement, describe and introduce his master in such terms as he uses here?]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/From the Epistles of Alexander/From an Epistle to the Antinoites

II. From an Epistle to the Antinoites.
Narcissus salutes you, who held the episcopate in this district before me, who is now also my colleague and competitor in prayer for you, and who, having now attained to his hundred and tenth year, unites with me in exhorting you to be of one mind.

## Footnotes

* ↑ In Euseb., Hist. Eccles., book vi. ch. xi.
* ↑ συνεξεταζόμενός μοι διὰ τῶν εὐχῶν. Jerome renders it: Salutat vos Narcissus, qui ante me hic tenuit episcopalem locum et nunc mecum eundem orationibus regit.
* ↑ ηνυκώς.
* ↑ The text gives ὁμοίως ἐμοὶ φρονῆσαι. Several of the codices and also Nicephorus give the better reading, ὁμοίως ἐμοὶ ὁμοφρονῆσαι, which is confirmed by the interpretations of Rufinus and Jerome.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/Note by the American Editor

Note by the American Editor.
If Alexander died in the Decian persecution, it is noteworthy how far the sub-apostolic age extended. This contemporary of Cyprian was coadjutor to Narcissus, who may have seen those who knew St. John. See vol. i. p. 416, note 1, this series; also vol. i. p. 568, Fragment ii.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Alexander of Cappadocia/Translator's Biographical Notice

Alexander of Cappadocia.
Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[a.d. 170–233–251.] Alexander was at first bishop of a church in Cappadocia, but on his visiting Jerusalem he was appointed to the bishopric of the church there, while the previous bishop Narcissus was alive, in consequence of a vision which was believed to be divine. During the Decian persecution he was thrown into prison at Cæsarea, and died there, a.d. 251. The only writings of his which we know are those from which the extracts are made.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Euseb., Hist. Eccles., vi. 11. [Narcissus must have been born about a.d. 121. Might have known Polycarp.]
* ↑ Ibid., vi. 46. [Narcissus lived till a.d. 237, and died a martyr, aged 116.]
* ↑ [He was a pupil of Pantænus, continued under Clement, and defended Origen against the severity of Demetrius. Two dates which are conjectural are adjusted to these facts. I find it difficult to reconcile them with those implied by Eusebius.]
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Anatolius of Alexandria
## Contents

* Translator's Biographical Notice
* The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria
* Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Anatolius of Alexandria/The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria
## Contents

* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* The moon's age set forth in the Julian Calendar
* The Paschal or Easter Table of Anatolius
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Noble, John Willock

Edition of 1900.
​NOBLE, John Willock, lawyer, b. in Lancaster, Ohio, 26 Oct., 1831. He was educated at Miami university, Ohio, and at Yale, where he was graduated in 1851, studied law, and was city attorney of Keokuk, Iowa, in 1859-'60. He became 1st lieutenant and adjutant in the 3d Iowa cavalry in August, 1861, and took part in the battle of Athens, Mo., as a private before he was mustered into service. He became judge-advocate of the Army of the Southwest, and afterward of the Department of Missouri, 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-general of volunteers, 13 March, 1865, mustered out at Atlanta in August, and resumed the practice of law, serving as IJ. S. district attorney at St. Louis in 1867-'70, and receiving the thanks of Gen. Grant before the cabinet in 1869. He has won reputation in his profession, and has taken part in many important suits.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Noort, Olivier Van

Edition of 1900.
​NOORT, Olivier Van (nort), Dutch navigator, b. in Utrecht in 1568; d. after 1621. Some merchants of his country equipped an expedition to go to the South sea by the Strait of Magellan, and Noort received the command. He left Rotterdam on 13 Sept., 1598, touched at Rio Janeiro, but was driven back, and along the coast suffered many losses by the attacks of the Indians. He resolved to winter in the deserted island of Santa Clara, whence he sailed again on 2 June, 1599. On the 29th he discovered an island near the coast of Patagonia, and stopped there to repair damages. On 23 Nov. he entered the Strait of Magellan, and landed on the northern coast, where he was attacked by the Indians and suffered many losses. Soon afterward he anchored among the Penguin islands, and subsequently he discovered the bays of Olivier, Mauritius, and Henry, but could not explore the latter on account of the ice. On 6 Feb. he left the Strait of Magellan, and, entering the South sea, sailed along the Chilian and Peruvian coasts, pillaging and burning as he went, and capturing several Spanish ships. The viceroy, Luis Velasco, sent a fleet to capture him, but Noort sailed for the Ladrone group. He pillaged the Philippines, visited Java and Borneo, and, sailing round the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Rotterdam, 26 Aug., 1601. A narrative of his voyage was published under the title of “Beschrijving van de moeyelyke reis rondo m de werldaar de globe, door Olivier van Noort, waarin zyne vreem de lotgevallen in voorkomen” (Amsterdam, 1612; German translation by Gotthard Arties, Leipsic, 1613; French translation, Antwerp, 1613).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nores, Simon de

Edition of 1900. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with extra caution. There are anachronisms in the subject's travels.
​NORES, Simon de (no'-res), Dutch naval officer, b. in Muyden, near Amsterdam, in 1581; d. in Amsterdam in 1643. He was the son of a pilot, and followed the same profession till about 1610, when he entered the service of the Dutch East Indian company. In 1624 he proposed to John Usseling, president of the company, a plan for attacking the Spanish possessions in South America, which was accepted. An expedition was sent out on 22 Dec., 1624, under Admiral Jacob Wilekens, Nores commanding the first division of the fleet, and taking an active part in all the operations of the campaign. He remained as lieutenant of Piet Hein (q. v.) when Willekens returned to Holland in August, 1525, and, being left in command of Bahia during Hein's expedition against Espiritu Santo, defended the city against a powerful Spanish and Portuguese fleet. After holding it for two months, he was forced to sign a capitulation in October, 1525, and was detained a prisoner for several months, till Hein's return from Holland and his recapture of the city, 3 May, 1526. Being appointed vice-admiral on his return to Holland, he commanded from 1627 till 1631 several expeditions that ravaged the Venezuelan and Brazilian coasts, and twice captured the treasure-ship that bore the yearly tribute of the colonies to Spain. He retired in 1632, settled in Amsterdam, and at his death was one of the consulting directors of the Indian company.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nolte, Vincent

Edition of 1900.
​NOLTE, VINCENT, merchant, b. in Leghorn, Italy, in 1779; d. after 1852. He became a merchant in Leghorn and afterward in Hamburg, but went to Paris in 1804, and made several visits to the United States as agent of a commercial house between that year and 1838, travelling widely over the country, and residing here for several years at a time. He was long in New Orleans, and was an eye-witness of the British defeat there in 1815. This and his other experiences in this country he describes in "Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres" (English translation, New York, 1854). He devoted himself to literature for some time in Trieste, and in 1848–'9 edited the "Deutsche Freihafen," a free-trade journal, in Hamburg. He contributed to the press on finance and political economy, and among other works published "View of the Commercial World in 1846"; and a revised edition of William Benecke's "System of Insurance" (Hamburg, 1852).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nordhoff, Charles

Edition of 1900.
​NORDHOFF, Charles, journalist, b. in Erwitte, Westphalia, Prussia, 31 Aug., 1830. In 1835 he came with his parents to this country, and attended school in Cincinnati, where he was apprenticed to a printer in 1843. In 1844 he went to Philadelphia and worked in a newspaper office, but he soon shipped in rhe U. S. navy, where he served three years, making a voyage around the world. He remained at sea in the merchant, whaling, and mackerel fishery service until 1853, when he again became employed in newspaper offices, first in Philadelphia, and afterward in Indianapolis, Ind. From 1857 till 1861 he was editorially employed by a publishing-house in New York. From 1861 till 1871 he was on the staff of the New York “Evening Post,” and he subsequently contributed to the “Tribune.” He travelled in California in 1871-'2, and visited the Hawaiian islands in 1873. Since 1874 he has been the special Washington correspondent of the “New York Herald.” He edited an American edition of Kern's “Practical Landscape Gardening” (Cincinnati, 1855), and is the author of “Man-of-War Life: a Boy's Experience in the U. S. Navy” (Cincinnati, 1855); “The Merchant Vessel” (1855); “Whaling and Fishing” (1856); “Nine Years a Sailor” (1857); “Stories from the Island World” (New York, 1857); “Secession is Rebellion: the Union Indissoluble” (1860); “The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance, Character, Condition, and Customs” (1863); “America for Free Working Men” (1865); “Cape Cod and All Along Shore,” a collection of stories (1868); “California for Health, Pleasure, and Residence” (1872); “Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands” (1874); “Politics for Young Americans” (1875); “The Communistic Societies of the United States” (1875); “The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875” (1876); and “God and the Future Life” (1881).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nordheimer, Isaac

Edition of 1900.
​NORDHEIMER, Isaac, educator, b. in Memelsdorf, Germany, in 1809; d. in New York city, 3 Nov., 1842. After receiving a thorough education preparatory to becoming a rabbi, he entered the gymnasium of Würzburg in 1828, was transferred to its university in 1830, and completed his studies at Munich, where he obtained the degree of Ph. D. in 1834. To secure a wider field, Dr. Nordheimer came to New York in 1835, and received the appointment of instructor in sacred literature at Union theological seminary, where he remained from 1838 till 1842. He held the professorship of Hebrew and cognate languages at the University ​of the city of New York in 1836-'42. His learning and character made him successful as a teacher, and he enjoyed the friendship of the notable biblical scholars of his time, while many of his pupils now occupy posts of eminence. In 1888 he published in New York the first volume of his Hebrew grammar, and in 1841 the second volume (2d ed., with additions and improvements, 2 vols., New York, 1842). His other works, besides contributions to the “Biblical Repository,” were “A Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture, or a Chrestomathy” (New York, 1838); and “The Philosophy of Ecclesiastes” in the “Biblical Repository” (July, 1838). His great clearness, his perfection of analysis, his philosophic method, and his thorough command of Oriental languages made his instruction of signal value. Dr. Nordheimer left several works in manuscript; a Chaldee and Syriac grammar and an Arabic grammar in German; a larger Arabic grammar in English; a Hebrew concordance, incomplete; Ecclesiastes translated and explained, in German; and a mass of philological notes.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Noyes, Edward Follensbee

Edition of 1900. middle name “Follansbee”
​NOYES, Edward Follensbee, soldier, b. in Haverhill, Mass., 3 Oct., 1832; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 4 Sept., 1890. After an apprenticeship in a printing-office, he prepared for college, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1857, and at the Cincinnati, Ohio, law-school in 1858, practising in that city till the beginning of the civil war. He then turned his office into a recruiting headquarters, and on 27 July, 1861, was commissioned major of the 39th Ohio infantry. He continued in this command during all of its operations in Missouri, and was under Gen. John Pope at the capture of New Madrid and Island No. 10. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and colonel, and while building bridges in Prospect, Tenn., he was also engaged in securing veteran enlistments, with the result of a larger addition of veterans to his regiment than to any other in the National army from Ohio. He participated in all the important engagements of the Atlanta campaign till after the battle of Ruff Mills, where he was severely wounded, subsequently suffering the loss of a leg. On his recovery he was assigned to the command of Camp Dennison. He received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers in April, 1865, and was the same month elected city solicitor, and two years later judge of probate of Hamilton county, Ohio. He was chosen governor of Ohio in 1871, but was defeated at the next election, and in 1877 was appointed by President Hayes U.S. minister to France. During his service there he was sent on a special mission to the East, visiting all the countries that border on the Mediterranean. He resigned in 1881, and resumed practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Noyes, Eli

Edition of 1900.
​NOYES, Eli, missionary, b. in Jefferson, Me., 27 April, 1814; d. in Lafayette, Ind., 10 Sept., 1854. He was self-educated, began preaching in 1834, and in the next year, accompanied by his wife, sailed as a missionary of the Free-Will Baptist church to India. On his arrival he took charge of the mission at Orissa, was successful as a teacher and evangelist, became a skilled linguist, and published a Hebrew grammar. He returned to the United States on account of the failure of his health, was for some time a pastor in Boston, Mass., and edited "The Morning Star," a Free-Will Baptist journal. He delivered and subsequently published " Lectures on the Truths of the Bible" (Boston, 1853).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Noyes, George Rapall

Edition of 1900.
​NOYES, George Rapall, clergyman, b. in Newburyport, Mass., 6 March, 1798; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 3 June. 1868 He was graduated at Harvard in 1818, studied divinity there, was licensed to preach in 1822, served as tutor in 1823-'7, and in the latter year was ordained pastor of the 1st Unitarian society of Petersham, Mass. From 1840 until his death he was professor of Hebrew literature and other oriental languages, and lecturer on biblical literature at Harvard, where he received the degree of D. D. in 1839. Dr. Noyes was an eminent Greek and Hebrew scholar, and proficient in sacred literature. He devoted many ​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.