state senate in 1861-’2, and since 1880 has been president of the Essex bar association. He has published numerous magazine articles and ad- dresses and speeches, and a volume of " Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects " (Salem, 18(3!)).
NORTHROP, Cyrus, educator, b. in Ridgefield,
Conn., 30 Sept., 1884. He was graduated at Yale
in 1857, and at the law-school in 1859, and in
1861-'3 was clerk, first of the Connecticut house of
representatives, and then of the senate. He was
professor of rhetoric and English literature in Yale
from 1863 till 1884, when he became president of
the University of Minnesota. From 1869 till 1881
Prof. Northrop was collector of the port of New
Haven. He has delivered many addresses, of
which a dozen or more have been published.
NORTHROP, Harry Pinckney, R. C. bishop,
b. in Charleston, S. C, 5 May, 1842. He began his
classical studies at Georgetown college, D. C, but
his health failed, and he was removed to Mount St.
Mary's college, Emmettsburg, Md., where he was
graduated in 1860. The same year he entered the
theological seminary there, and after studying four
years went to Rome and entered the American col-
lege. He was ordained priest in Rome in June,
1865. On his return to the United States he was
for several months attached to the Church of •the
Nativity in New York. In 1866 he went to Charles-
ton, S. C., and was stationed at St. Joseph's church
for one year as assistant pastor. In 1868 he volun-
teered for the missions in North Carolina, and was
four years at New Berne in that state. Again re-
turning to Charleston, he was for six years assist-
ant pastor of the pro-cathedral and pastor of Sul-
livan's island. His next charge was St. Patrick's
church, Charleston, of which he was pastor for one
year. He was raised to the episcopate on 8 Jan.,
1882, as vicar-apostolic of North Carolina, receiving
the title of bishop of Rosalia. He was consecrated
in the cathedral of Baltimore by Archbishop Gib-
bons. By papal brief of 27 Jan., 1883, he was trans-
ferred to the see of Charleston, S. C, retaining the
administration of the vicariate of North Carolina.
He was present at the third plenary council of
Baltimore in 1884.
NORTHROP, Lucius Bellinger, soldier, b. in
Charleston, S. C, 8 Sept., 1811 ; d. in Pikesville, Md.,
9 Feb., 1894. He was graduated at the U. S. mili-
tary academy in 1829, and appointed 2d lieutenant
of dragoons and stationed at Fort Gibson and other
places in the west for eight years. He was severe-
ly wounded while following an Indian trail, and
returned to Charleston on sick-leave, never resum-
ing active service, fie studied medicine at Jeffer-
son college, Philadelphia, and on his return to
Charleston practised occasionally for charity only.
The war department, having been informed that he
was practising medicine, dropped him from the
army, but when Jefferson Davis became secretary
of war he not only reinstated him, but promoted
him to the rank of captain with full pay. When
South Carolina seceded he was among the first to
resign his commission, and when a provisional
government was established at Montgomery, Ala.,
Jefferson Davis offered him the place of commis-
sary-general, which, after declining twice, he ac-
cepted at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Davis, who
had been his classmate at West Point and his
friend ever since. When Richmond became the
capital of the Confederacy he removed to that city
and remained at the head of the commissary de-
partment until within a few weeks of the fall of
the Confederacy. It is related that, after the first
battle of Bull Run, on being requested to make
some provision for feeding the prisoners then in
Libby prison, he replied : " I know nothing of Yan-
kee prisoners : throw them all into the James river,"
and subsequently did all in his power to thwart
the efforts of those who were humanely laboring to
render the subsistence received by the prisoners
less precarious. By the spring of 1864 Northrop
had succeeded in having a law passed abolishing
the office of commissary of prisons, thus leaving
the whole matter of providing food for them in his
own hands. " From this date," says Edward A.
Pollard in his "Secret History of the Confed-
eracy," " whatever there was of distress for food
among the pi'isoners is to be properly and dis-
tinctly charged to one man in the Confederacy,
Northrop." tie was referred to in the Confederate
congress as " a certain commissary-general who is
a curse to our country," " and has attempted to
starve the prisoners in our hands." Senator Orr,
of South Carolina, with the aid of several congress-
men, attempted to procure his removal from office,
but was defeated by the opposition of Jefferson
Davis, whose " affection for Northrop " is declared
by Mr. Pollard to be " grotesque, inexplicable, in-
sane." After the fall of Richmond, Northrop retired
to North Carolina and engaged in farming, but in
July, 1865, he was arrested by the National authori-
ties and confined in Richmond until the following
November, when he was released. He then bought
a farm near Charlottesville, Va., upon which he
afterward resided. He died in a soldiers' home.
NORTHRUP, Ansel Judd, author, b. in Smith-
field, Madison co., N. Y., 30 June, 1833. He was
graduated at Hamilton college in 1858, studied in
Columbia law-school, and was admitted to the bar
in 1859, since which time he has practised his pro-
fession in Syracuse, N. Y. Since 1883 he has been
county judge for Onondaga county. He has pub-
lished " Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks,
and Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan"
(Syracuse, 1880), and " Sconset Cottage Life " (New
York, 1881). He has in preparation (1888) a gene-
alogy of the Northrup family.
NORTHRUP, George Washington, educator,
b. in Antwerp. Jefferson co., N. Y., 15 Oct., 1826.
Pie was graduated at Williams in 1854, and at
Rochester theological seminary in 1857. In 1858
he was called to the professorship of church history
in the Rochester seminary, and in 1867 he became
president of Chicago Baptist theological semi-
nary, Morgan Park. He was early ordained to the
Baptist ministry, and has attained note as a
preacher. He received the degree of D. D. from
Rochester in 1864, and that of LL. D. from Kala-
mazoo college in 1879.
NORTHRUP, Jeremiah, Canadian senator,
b. in Falmouth, N. S., in 1815. He is descended
from Jeremiah Northrup, a loyalist, who went to
Nova Scotia from the United States at the close of
the Revolution and represented Falmouth in the
first provincial parliament that sat in Nova Scotia
for twenty-five years until his death. Jeremiah was
educated at Plalifax, became a merchant and ship-
owner, director of the Ocean marine insurance
company, a member of the committee of the Prot-
estant industrial school, and a governor of Dal-
housie college. He was a commissioner for sign-
ing treasury notes, and represented Halifax in the
provincial legislature from 1867 until he was elected
to the Dominion senate, 10 Oct., 1870.
NORTON, Asahel Strong, clergyman, b. in Farmington, Conn., 20 Sept.. 1765 ; d. in Clinton, N. Y., 10 May, 1853. His father, lehabod Norton, was a colonel in the war of the Revolution. The
son was graduated at Yale in 1790. licensed as a Congregational preacher in 1792, and in 1793 be-
