time of intense efforts by Democrats to disrupt and suppress Republican voting, especially by freedmen, with a combination of fraud and violence. White conservative Democrats took back control of the state legislature and governorship. Norcross made an impassioned speech, from which The New York Times printed an excerpt. Publications In the late nineteenth century, beginning in 1865, Norcross began to publish some essays about politics: The History of Democracy: Considered as a Party Name and as a Political Organization. New York: G. P. Press, 1883. Democracy Examined: Or, a Conversation Between a Republican and a Moderate Democrat. Pub. J. P. Harrison, 1880. Common-Sense: Views of State Sovereignty versus United States Supremacy. The Atlantic Republican, Print, 1876. The Conflict of Labor and Capital. New Era Print, 1870. The Anarchical and Revolutionary Character of a Democratic Party: A Supplement to "Democracy Considered as a Party Name, and as a Political Organization." Atlanta: Pub. Jas. P. Harrison & Co., 1865. Marriage and family Norcross in April 1845 had married the widow [Mrs.] Harriet N. [Bogle] (from Montgomery, Alabama, born in Blount Co., Tennessee). She died in August 1876. They had a son together, Virgil C. Norcross, who became a clergyman and pastor of the First Baptist Church (orig. James' Chapel). He married Lydia F. Howes on May 19, 1875, in Bibb, Georgia. On September 4, 1877, the widower Jonathan Norcross married again, to Mary Ann Hill, in Fulton, Georgia. Death and legacy The last surviving antebellum mayor of Atlanta, Norcross died at his home in Atlanta on December 18, 1898, at age 90. He is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, in a marked grave, Section 10, Block 140, Lot 3. Norcross, Georgia, a city in the suburbs of Atlanta, is named in his honor. Nicholas Gaubert Norcross Nicholas G. Norcross, the older brother of Norcross, was born December 25, 1805, also in Orono, Maine. He married Sophronia Pratt and moved to Bangor, where he established a career in the lumber industry. He finally settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, also an area for lumber, as well as textile mills that became increasingly important to the economy. There Norcross was known as "The Lumber King" of Lowell. His daughter Caroline married Charles Wesley Saunders, who also became known in the local lumber industry and in politics. Footnotes This article incorporates text from the public domain 1902 book Atlanta And Its Builders by Thomas H. Martin