NOBLE, James, senator, b. in Battletown, Fred- erick CO., Va., about 1790 ; cl. in Washington, D. C, 26 Feb., 1831. In his youth he removed to Ken- tucky with his family, and he subsequently settled in Indiana, educated himself, and became iniluen- tial in tlie politics of that state. He was one of the first U. S. senators from Indiana, serving from 12 Dec. 1816, until his death.
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.
NOBLE, Louis Legrand, clergvman. b. in
Lisbon, N. Y., 26 Sept., 1813 ; d. in Ionia, Mich., 6
Feb.. 1882. He was graduated at Bristol college,
Pa., in 1837, and at the General theological semi-
nary in Xew York city in 1840, was ordained dea-
3on, 28 June, 1840, by Bishop Benjamin T. Onder-
donk, and priest, 4 June, 1841, by Bishop Ives. He
was assistant minister in St. Peter's church, Al-
banv, N. Y., in 1840. rector of Christ church,
Elizabeth City, N. C, in 1841-'4, rector of St.
Luke's church, Catskill, N. Y., in 1844. of Grace
Church. Chicago, 111., in 1855. of the Church of
the Messiah. Gfenn's Falls, X. Y., in 1856, of Trinity
church, Fredonia, X. Y., in 1857, of Christ church,
Hudson, X. Y., in 1859, and of St. John's church,
Ionia, Mich., in 1880. In addition to parochial
work, Mr. Xoble also served as professor of English
and history in St. Stephen's college, Annandale,
N. Y., being appointed in 1874. Besides shorter
poems, he published " Xe-Ma-Min, an Indian
Story," in three cantos (1852) ; " The Course of
Empire, Voyage of Life, and other Pictures of
Thomas Cole, X. A., with Selections from his Let-
ters and Miscellaneous Writings, Illustrative of his
Life, Character, and Genius" (Xew York, 1853);
" The Lady Angeline, a Lay of the Appalachians ;
the Hours, and other Poems" (1857); and "A
Voyage to the Arctic Seas in Search of Icebergs,
with Church, the Artist " (1861).
NOBLE, Patrick, governor of South Carolina,
b. in Abbeville district, S. C, in 1787 ; d. there, 7
April, 1840. He was graduated at Princeton in
1806, studied law with John C. Calhoun, and was
his partner after being admitted to the bar in 1809.
He was elected to the state house of representatives
in 1812, and was its speaker from 1818 till 1824,
and again in 1832. In 1836 he was made president
of the state senate, and he was governor of South
Carolina from 1838 till 1840. He was a state-rights
Democrat, and was popular with the masses.
NOBOA, Diego, South American statesman, b.
in Guayaquil inl789 ; d. there, 3 Xov., 1870. He
studied law in Quito and afterward returned to
Guayaquil, where he took part in the revolution of
9 Oct., 1820. The government appointed him treas-
urer of the province, which post he retained when
the latter was incorporated with Colombia as a de-
partment. In 1827 he was elected intendant of
Guayaquil, to oppose the dictatorship of Simon
BciiVar, but, when the reaction in favor of the latter
took place a few months afterward, Noboa was
obliged to go into exile. He returned in 1830,
when Ecuador was declared an independent repub-
lic, and was appointed minister to Peru. After-
ward he was elected senator of the republic, and
later, by popular vote, member of the provisional
government that was established in consequence of
the revolution of 6 March, 1845, against Gen.
Flores. In 1850 he was elected supreme chief of
the republic, and afterward the national convention
at Quito appointed him constitutional president of
Ecuador. On 17 July, 1851, a military revolution
overthrew his government and obliged him to go
to Central America and Peru. In 1856 he returned
to Guayaquil, where he died in retirement.
NOBOA. Manuel Vasquez de, Chilian states-
man, b. in Concepcion in 1783 ; d. in Santiago in
1855. In 1803 he was graduated in law, but, when
in 1810 the war of independence began, he took
part in it on the pati'iot side. At a popular meet-
ing in Concepcion. to appoint a junta like that of
Santiago, he was elected one of its members. When
the Spanish expedition under Gen. Pareja (q. r.)
landed in San Vicente. 26 March, 1812, the latter
proposed to the junta a basis of arrangement by
which they should recognize Ferdinand VII. No-
boa, who presided over the junta, fearing that the
members might be inclined to submit, refused to
discuss the conditions, and left for the capital in
quest of the army. At La Angostura he met Gen.
Carrera, who marched against Concepcion, and
Noboa took part in the campaign of the south as
military judge. After the defeat of Rancagua he-
emigrated with his family to the Argentine Repub-
lic, where he met the rival generals O'Higgins and
Carrera. When the two brothers Carrera were
shot in Mendoza, Xoboa was their defender, for
which act he was exiled to Buenos Ayres, where he
suffered great poverty. Afterward he went to
Montevideo, where he was appointed attorney-
general of the province, but, fearing that the
Spaniards would take possession of Montevideo
again, he returned to Chili in 1819. On his arrival
at Valparaiso he was imprisoned by order of the
supreme director, and exiled to Peru, where he was
appointed district attorney of Trujillo. He re-
turned to Chili after the fall of O'Higgins, and, in
consequence of the dissensions between the three
provinces, was appointed a member of the commis-
sion that promulgated the act of union of the prov-
inces and the organic laws. During the govern-
ment of Freire he formed part of the senate that
passed the law for the abolition of slavery in Chili,
24 July, 1823, and in 1825 he was appointed min-
ister of the supreme court of justice. He was
deputy to the convention of 1828, and afterward
councillor of state.
NOBREGA, Manoel de (no-bray-gah), b. in Portugal in 1517; d. in Brazil in 1570. He entered the Jesuit novitiate of Coimbra in 1544, and embarked for Brazil in 1549 at the head of a band of
missionaries. After landing he endeavored to reform the Portuguese colonists, whose vices interfered with his success in converting the natives. Not succeeding in this, he set out alone and on foot to travel among the native tribes, many of whom were cannibals. He was the first Jesuit in America that attempted this task. He induced thousands of Indians to give up their roving life and to form Christian colonies, where they were gradually trained to habits of industry. Even in his old age
