Name Charles Nott Education Union College | ||
Died March 6, 1916, New York City, New York, United States Books The mystery of the Pinck, Sketches of the War, Sketches in Prison Camps: A, Sketches in Prison Camps: A | ||
Children Charles Cooper Nott, Jr. | ||
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught, by Charles C Nott
Charles Cooper Nott, Sr. (1827 – March 6, 1916) was a Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims.
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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. Charles Cooper Nott graduated from Union College in 1848, was admitted to the bar and moved to New York in 1850, where he practiced law until enlisting to fight at the beginning of the American Civil War. He was appointed a captain in the Fremont Hussars, was in the 5th Iowa Cavalry, and the 131st New York Volunteer Infantry and the 176th New York Volunteer Infantry, achieving the rank of colonel. 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 Mrs. Lockwood's Case, 9 Ct. Cl. 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. In turn, Charles Bowen Howry took his associate judgeship.
Nott retired in 1905. He died on March 6, 1916, at 151 East Sixty-first Street, New York City. His son, Charles Cooper Nott, Jr., was a Judge of the Special Sessions Court.