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NOTT (1773-1866)  , American divine, was born on the 25th of June 1773 at Ashford, Connecticut . He was left an orphan without resources, but graduated in 1795 at Brown University . 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 . He found the collegefinancially embarrassed, but succeeded in placing it on a sound footing . He was known also as the inventor of the first stove for anthracite coal . His publications include sermons, Counsels to Young Men (18ro), and Lectures on Temperance (1847) . Life by C. van Santvoord (ed . Tayler Lewis, 1876) .