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ELIPHALET NOTT (1773-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOTT (1773-1866)  , See also:American divine, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:June 1773 at See also:Ashford, See also:Connecticut . He was See also:left an See also:orphan without resources, but graduated in 1795 at See also:Brown University . In 1804 he became See also:president of See also:Union See also:College, See also:Schenectady, New See also:York, a position which he held till his See also:death on the 29th of See also:January 1866 . He found the collegefinancially embarrassed, but succeeded in placing it on a See also:sound footing . He was known also as the inventor of the first See also:stove for See also:anthracite See also:coal . His publications include sermons, Counsels to See also:Young Men (18ro), and Lectures on See also:Temperance (1847) . See also:Life by C. See also:van Santvoord (ed . Tayler See also:Lewis, 1876) .

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