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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nott, Samuel 1788-1869 (search)
Nott, Samuel 1788-1869 Missionary; born in Franklin, Conn., Sept. 11, 1788; was the last survivor of the first band of missionaries sent out to India by the American board of foreign missions in 1812. He was ordained just before his departure. He returned in 1816, and continued to preach and teach school nearly the whole of the remainder of his life. He died in Hartford, June 1, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seward, William Henry 1801-1872 (search)
o important a personage to appear as attorney and counsel unless for a nation or an oppressed people. He completed his academic studies at Union College under Dr. Nott, whose liberal broad-church management of that institution made it such a refuge of young fellows driven out from other colleges by their stricter discipline, that it received and long retained the name in college circles of Botany Bay. The attempt of Dr. Nott to control undergraduates only through the influence of their own self-respect had, we may be sure, the young Seward's warmest sympathy. It must have commended itself wholly and warmly to a nature like his, and he records his memory of the manliness of spirit developed under the system of Dr. Nott. But he does not speak so highly of the system of instruction, which consisted chiefly in a cultivation of the memory under which much was forgotten as soon as learned. He justly says that this system was not peculiar to Union, and then makes another remark sig