THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

ABNER NASH

(1716-1786) Member of the Constitutional Congress from Virginia. Also member of
the Continental Congress. Governor of North Carolina 1781.

FRANCIS NASH

(1742-1777) Revolutionary soldier from Virginia. Nashville, Tennessee, was
named in his honor. This ship assigned to Norwegian government upon completion
and renamed “Fridt Job Nansen”.

THOMAS NAST

(1840-1902) Political cartoonist. Responsible for the Democrats Donkey symbol.

JOSE NAVARRO

(1795-1870) Army officer who advocated Texas Independence from Mexico. Signer
of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

ROBERT NEIGHBORS

(1815-1859) Texas pioneer born in Virginia. Indian agent 1847.

KNUTE NELSON

(1843-1923) Norwegian born Civil War soldier. Congressman from Minnesota
1883-1889. Governor of Minnesota 1892-1895. Senator from 1895-1923.

SAMUEL NELSON

(1792-1873) Justice of the Supreme Court 1845-1872.

THOMAS NELSON

(1738-1789) Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Virginia. Governor of
Virginia 1781.

WILLIAM R. NELSON

(1841-1915) Founder and owner of the Kansas City Star 1880.

JOSIAH NELSON CUSHING

(1840-1905) Baptist missionary in Burma.

JAMES W. NESMITH

(1820-1885) Senator from Oregon 1861-1867.

EDWIN S. NETTLETON

(1831-1901) Engineer responsible for most irrigation systems in Wyoming, Nevada,
Colorado and Idaho.

ETHELBERT NEVIN

(1862-1901) Composer from Pennsylvania.

ANDREW J. NEWBURY

(1845-1919) Shipmaster appointed Commissioner of Pilotagefor New Jersey, 1888.
President of Marine Society of New York. Trustee of Sailor’s Snug Harbor 1900-
1908.

STANFORD NEWEL

(1839-1907) Minister to the Netherlands 1897-1905.

FREDERICK H. NEWELL

(1862-1932) Chief Engineer of the Reclamation Service 1902-1907.

ROBERT NEWELL
(1807-1869) Trapper, Oregon pioneer. One of the first settlers in the
Willameette Valley 1840.

FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS

(1848-1917) Senator from California 1903-1917.

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT

(1565-1617) Mariner who served with Drake. Headed the party of colonist to
Virginia and selected the site of Jamestown 1607.

WILLIAM FORD NICHOLS

(1849-1924) Episcopal clergyman from New York. Bishop of California 1893.

ELIZA JANE NICHOLSON

(1849-1896) Co-owner of the “New Orleans Picayune” 1876-1896.

JOSEPH H. NICHOLSON

(1770-1817) Congressman from Maryland 1799-1806.

JOHN G. NICOLAY

(1832-1901) Journalist. President Lincoln’s private secretary.

JEAN NICOLET

(1598-1642) 17th century French explorer in the Great Lakes area.

JOSEPH N. NICOLLET

(1786-1843) Surveyor of the upper Mississippi and Missouri 1838.

JOHN I. NOLAN

(1874-1922) Congressman from California 1913-1923.

CHARLES NORDHOFF

(1830-1901) Journalist, seaman. Served in the merchant marine and became
managing editor of the New York Evening Post.

LILLIAN NORDICA

(1859-1914) Actress from Maine. Real name Lillian Norton.

FRANK NORRIS

(1870-1902) Journalist, novelist, war correspondent during Sanish-American War.

GEORGE W. NORRIS

(1808-1875) Professor of clinical surgery University of Pennsylvania.

JOHN G. NORTH

(1823-1872) Norwegian emigrant to California in 1849. Shipbuilder who built
first three masted schooner on West Coast, the “Susan and Kate Denin” 1860.

ELIPHALET NOTT

(1773-1866) Presbyterian clergyman, educator, inventor.

CROSBY S. NOYES

(1825-1908) Journalist. Co-owner Washington Star 1855.

THOMAS NUTTALL

(1786-1859) Botanist, orthanoligist. Explorer of the Arkansas, Missouri and Red
Rivers. Also explored Columbia River 1834.

EDGAR W. NYE

(1850-1896) Journalist, humorist. Authored “History of the Unitewd States” 1894.

JAMES W. NYE
(1814-1876) Territorial Governor of Nevada 1861. Senator from Nevada 1864-1873.