ELIPHALET NOTT (1773-1866)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 824
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ELIPHALET NOTT (1773-1866)
, American divine, was born on the 25th of June 1773 at Ashford, Connecticut
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He was left an orphan without resources, but graduated in 1795 at See also: - BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University
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In 1804 he became president of Union College, Schenectady, New York, a position which he held till his death on the 29th of January 1866
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He found the collegefinancially embarrassed, but succeeded in placing it on a sound footing
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He was known also as the inventor of the first stove for anthracite coal
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His publications include sermons, Counsels to Young Men (18ro), and Lectures on Temperance (1847)
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Life by C. van Santvoord (ed
.
Tayler Lewis, 1876)
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