Background
He was born in 1827 in Schenectady, New York, to Professor Joel B. Nott, a chemist and mineralogist. He was a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, a longtime President of Union College.
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Charles Cooper
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Charles Cooper Nott graduated from Union College in 1848, was admitted to the bar and moved to New York in 1850, where he practised law until enlisting to fight at the beginning of the American Civil War.
Career
He was subsequently captured at the fall of Brashear City, and held as a prisoner of war in Texas for thirteen months. Abraham Lincoln appointed Nott to the Court of Claims in February, 1865, two months before the President died. He was the reporter of decisions of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports.
He wrote the unanimous opinion in Mistress
Lockwood"s Case, 9 Court Citation Index. 346 (1874), denying Belva Ann Lockwood admission to the bar of the Court of Claims.
She appealed to the United States Supreme Court and lost there as well. In 1896 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Claims by President Grover Cleveland, succeeding William A. Richardson.
Nott retired in 1905.
He died on March 6, 1916, at 151 East Sixty-first Street, New York City.
