| LC control no. | n 89125988 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Noble, John W. (John Willock), 1831-1912 |
| Variant(s) | Noble, John W. (John Willcock), 1831-1912 Noble, John Willock, 1831-1912 Noble, J. W. (John Willock), 1831-1912 Noble, John (John Willock), 1831-1912 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
| Birth date | 1831-10-26 |
| Death date | 1912-03-22 |
| Place of birth | Lancaster (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
| Field of activity | Law United States--Politics and government Forest conservation |
| Affiliation | United States. Department of the Interior Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) Cincinnati College. Law School Yale University |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Generals Politicians |
| Found in | NUCMC data from LC Manuscript Div. for Dawes, H.L. Papers, 1833-1933 (Noble, John W.) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Noble, John Willock, 1831-1912; usage: John W. Noble) WWWA, vol. 1, 1897-1942 (Noble, John Willock; lawyer; Union army officer; U.S. sec. of interior, 1889-1893) Wikipedia, viewed June 18, 2024: John Willock Noble (John Willock Noble (October 26, 1831 - March 22, 1912) was a U.S. lawyer and brevet brigadier general in the Civil War. He served as the Secretary of the Interior between 1889 and 1893. He was born in Lancaster, Ohio on October 26, 1831. Early on he studied in Cincinnati and Columbus, then attended Miami University and Yale. In 1851, he graduated from Yale University with honors. He then studied law at Columbus and Cincinnati. After he graduated from Yale, he went to study law. He first studied law in the office of his brother and that who Attorney General Henry Stanberry. After the outbreak of the American Civil War Noble was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment in September 1861. At the war's end he received a brevet (honorary promotion) to brigadier general and was mustered out of service in August 1865. He served as the Secretary of the Interior between 1889 and 1893. After retiring from the Interior, he began practicing law in St. Louis until his death. Two days after Noble's death, on March 23, 1912, Robert Underwood Johnson wrote to The New York Times with a letter describing Noble as a pioneer of the conservation movement in the United States. Johnson cited his work with the Interior under President Harrison, in which Noble originated the forest reservation policy, leading to reserves being proclaimed in the great Sierra Reserve and the Arizona Canyon Reserve, made possible by legislation on March 3, 1891, which Noble initiated. He died on March 22, 1912. As of his death, he was still a resident of St. Louis. He was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willock_Noble> Library of Congress (website), viewed June 18, 2024: John Willock Noble, 1831-1912 (John Willock Noble, 1831-1912.) <https://www.loc.gov/item/2003688986/> Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (website), viewed June 18, 2024: Noble, John Willock (Noble, John Willock. (1831-1912), U.S. public official, born in Lancaster, Ohio; Yale College 1851; Cincinnati Law School 1852; law practice in Keokuk, Iowa, 1856-61; served in Union Army, leaving service a brigadier general; district attorney for eastern Missouri 1867-70; secretary of the interior under President Benjamin Harrison 1889-93 -- most significant act was withdrawing millions of acres of forest for national parks in 1891.) <https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Noble-John-Willock/331482> |
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