Ehrman Syme Nadal

Ehrman Syme Nadal was born on February 13, 1843, in Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Jane (née Mays) and Bernard Harrison Nadal. His paternal grandfather emigrated from France.^[1] His father was a college professor and pastor. His father was chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.^[1]

Nadal was prepared for college by his father. He attended Columbia University for two years and then attended Yale College. He graduated from Yale in 1864 with a Bachelor of Arts.^[1][2] He was a member of the Linonian Society and the Varuna Boat Club of Yale.^[1]

From 1864 to 1865, Nadal taught at Dickinson Seminary. He then taught in Dansville, New York, and then Leavenworth, Kansas.^[1] In 1867, he worked for the federal government. He then worked for the United States Mint in Philadelphia and at the Dead Letter Office in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Nadal served as a secretary of the United States Legation at London from 1870 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1884, under ambassadors John Lothrop Motley, John Welsh, and James Russell Lowell.^[1][2][3]

Nadal was then on the staff of the New York Evening Post.^[1] In 1884, after he returned to New York City, he was appointed secretary of three civil service boards of examiners and remained in those roles for three years.^[1] He wrote Impressions of London Social Life (1875), Essays at Home and Elsewhere (1882), A Virginian Village, and Zweibak, or Notes of a Professional Exile.^[1][2] He also wrote for magazines and newspapers.^[1] From 1892 to 1893, he gave lectures on English composition at Columbia University. He was a lecturer at Columbia from 1895 to 1896.^[1]

Nadal did not marry.^[1] He was a member of St James's Club in London and the Century Association in New York City.^[3] He also lived at the Century Association in New York City.^[2]

Nadal died on July 26, 1922, in Princeton, New Jersey.^[2] He was buried at Mount Kisco Cemetery in Mount Kisco, New York.^[1]