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That the deaths of great and useful men should be particularly noticed, is equally the dictate of reason and revelation. The tears of Israel flowed at the decease of good josiah, and to his memory the funeral women chanted the solemn dirge.
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Eliphalet Nott was an American college president, Presbyterian clergyman, and inventor. He established himself as a peculiarly gifted preacher, learned, eloquent, and convincing, and was soon considered one of America's greatest pulpit orators.
Background
Eliphalet Nott was born on June 25, 1773 in Ashford, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Stephen and Deborah (Selden) Nott. His father proved himself a failure in each of his undertakings, but his mother was a woman of superior culture.
Education
Nott's mother instructed the boy in the rudiments, and he prepared for college under the supervision of his brother Samuel, pastor of the Congregational church at Franklin, Connecticut.
Nott studied Latin, Greek, theology, and mathematics with the Reverend Dr. Joel Benedict, pastor of the local Congregational church. In 1795 he entered Rhode Island College (Brown University), and without completing a full year there, was admitted to the degree of master of arts upon passing a special examination.
Career
At sixteen, he taught in the district school at Franklin. A year later, he became principal of the Plainfield Academy.
On June 26, 1796, he was licensed to preach by the New London Congregational Association.
Commissioned by the Domestic Missionary Society of Connecticut, he set out for the wilderness of upper New York State, and in the fall became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cherry Valley. Here he founded an academy which he conducted successfully while discharging the obligations of his pastoral office. His reputation as a preacher grew, and in 1798 he removed to Albany, where, on October 13, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
Among the most celebrated of his published sermons was A Discourse. Occasioned by the Ever to be Lamented Death of General Alexander Hamilton (1804), delivered at the invitation of the Common Council of Albany. His interest in education expressed itself in his persistent efforts to reform the antiquated public-school system of Albany. As a result of his recommendations, first outlined in March 1803, the Albany Academy was finally incorporated, in 1813.
In 1804, he had succeeded Jonathan Maxcy as president of Union College, Schenectady, of which he had been a trustee since 1800. He found the college laboring under a heavy debt, while its income was far less than its necessary expenditures. His executive abilities were manifest at once in his admirable, far-sighted program. The state legislature responded to his appeal, March 30, 1805, by authorizing four lotteries for the purpose of raising the sum of $80, 000 for the college, and the following year Nott secured a loan of $15, 000 from the state to defray pressing current expenses. Eight years later, when the drawing finally took place, the college realized but $76, 000. By this time, there was an urgent need for a larger sum, and again Nott appealed to the legislature, which on April 13, 1814, made an additional grant of $200, 000, to be raised in the same manner. After waiting eight years without results, Nott took upon himself the management of the lotteries, and with such success that he was able to extricate the college from its embarrassments. By heroic personal efforts, he placed the endowment fund upon a secure basis. The building program went forward satisfactorily, the college developed rapidly from within, and achieved a high reputation for the excellence of its instruction. His form of control enabled the students to enjoy a larger measure of self-government than was customary in American colleges at that time.
His addresses on the subject, Ten Lectures on the Use of Intoxicating Liquors (1846), Lectures on Temperance (1847), Lectures on Biblical Temperance (1863), were published and circulated widely. Another of his publications which went through numerous editions was Counsels to Young Men on the Formation of Character (1840). His Miscellaneous Works had appeared in 1810. In addition to his prodigious labors as an educator, he experimented with the properties of heat. The results of his research are recorded in some thirty patents, granted for applications of heat to steam boilers and generators.
In 1851, after a legislative inquiry concerning the financial condition of Union College, he was accused, in many newspapers, of misappropriating college funds. Upon examining the books of the institution, an Assembly commission reporting in February 1852 completely vindicated him of all charges of dereliction. As a fitting sequel to this unpleasant affair, he donated in 1854 to the endowment fund $600, 000 of his own fortune.
His active career was terminated by a paralytic stroke, which forced him, in 1859, to relinquish some of the duties of his office. He presided at commencements, however, until 1862. At his death, in 1866, he had been president of Union for sixty-two years, an unprecedented period in the annals of higher education in America.
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Religion
Nott often served as moderator in church trials; the religious revival of 1838 inspired some of his most memorable sermons, which added further to his reputation as a preacher.
Views
Nott advocated the abolition of slavery.
As an instructor of youth, he saw the dangers of intemperance.
Connections
On July 4, 1796 Nott married Sarah Maria, eldest daughter of Joel Benedict. On March 11, 1804, his wife died, and on August 3, 1807, he married Gertrude (Peebles) Tibbitts, widow of Benjamin Tibbitts of Troy. After her death, early in 1840, he married Urania E. Sheldon of Utica, August 8, 1842.