Historical records matching Rev. Miron Winslow, D.D., L.L.D.
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About Rev. Miron Winslow, D.D., L.L.D.
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Miron Winslow (11 December 1789 - 22 October 1864) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to American Ceylon Mission, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he established a mission at Oodooville and founded a seminary. He founded a mission station at Madras, first and chief station of American Madras Mission.
He published several books, notably, A History of Missions and A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil, a Tamil to English lexicon which took twenty years of missionary labor to compile sixty-seven thousand Tamil words-This dictionary was based in part on manuscript material of the Joseph Knight (pastor), of the London Missionary Society, and the Rev. Samuel Hutchings, of the American mission, and was the most complete dictionary of a modern Indian language published at that time.
Early life
He was born in Williston, Vermont, on 11 December 1789 to Anna Kellogg and Nathaniel Winslow. At the age of fourteen, he started his career as a store clerk and than established himself in a business in Norwich, Connecticut, where he was employed for two years.
With conversion, he had a conviction that he had to preach gospel, and to preach un-evangelized nations; therefore, changed career paths, and gave himself to the service of Christ among the heathen. Later, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1813 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. On 19th of January 1819, he married Harriet W. Lathrop, who bore him six children.
During his vacation years at Andover Theological Seminary, he worked as an agent of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions(ABCFM) to tour New England and raise funds. On 4 November 1818, he was ordained by ABCFM at Tabernacle church, Salem, Massachusetts, together with Pliny Fisk and others to be sent as missionaries to Ceylon Mission, Ceylon.
Missionary work
On June 8th 1819, he embarked from Boston on brig Indus, bound for Calcutta, India. From Calcutta, he proceeded to Ceylon and reached his destination on December 14th 1819. As part of his missionary duty, he was initially stationed at Oodooville on July 4th 1820. At Oodooville, he established a mission and a seminary. After having laboured for fourteen years at Oodooville, he was transferred to Madras, South India. Having arrived Madras on August 18th 1836, he had chose that as the mission site for American Madras Mission and started his missionary activities; consequently, Winslow is credited in commencing[founding] American Madras Mission in 1836. In September 1836, he was joined by John Scudder, Sr., the first American medical missionary in India.
He visited America in 1855, but returned in 1858. Due to ill-health, he left again to America in August 1864; however, he died at an age of seventy-four, on his way from India to America at the Cape of Good Hope(Cape Town), South Africa, on 22 October 1864, two days after he reached Cape Town.
Bibliography
During his senior years in the seminary at Andover, he wrote A History of Missions or History of the principal attempt to propagate Christianity among the Heathen, and it has been published by Flagg and Gould at Andover in 1819. During his passage from India to America in 1855, he wrote Hints on Missions that had been published by M.W. Dodd in 1856. It is a sort of digest of his experiences and observations during his thirty-seven years of missionary life.
In addition to these, he published several of his sermons and addresses as pamphlets. Most of his missionary labor were consumed in translating Bible into Tamil language in 1855, especially in the preparation of Tamil-English lexicon entitled A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil, completed in 1862--Winslow devoted almost three to four hours a days for nearly thirty years. It extends to nearly a thousand quarto pages, and contains more than sixty-seven thousand Tamil words. This dictionary has thirty thousand five hundred and fifty one more words than any other dictionary of Tamil language. The dictionary was so comprehensive, that it included the astronomical, mythological, astrological, scientific, botanical, and official terms, along with names of Gods, authors, and heroes--for this, he received the highest encomiums from the Indian and England press like Madras Observer; Madras Times; Colombo Observer;Statesman; New York Observer; and more, and also from literary and official press too.
D D L L D 74 yrs.
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One of the three sons of Nathaniel Winslow, all eminent divines, who died in the same year. One monument to all three, of Isle-la-Motte marble:
Three Brothers, Born in Williston of the seventh (fifth) generation of the Pilgrim fathers "Their works do follow them"
WINSLOW
Miron Winslow, DD, LL.D Forty-Five Years Missionary in India Died at the Cape of Good Hope, Oct 22 1864, aged 64 years "Thy Life to the Cross was Wholly devoted"
Hubbard Winslow, DD Author, Educator, Pastor at Boston and elsewhere Entered into Rest Aug 13 1864 age 64 years "Always abounding in the work of the Lord"
Gordon Winslow, DD, MD Rector at Staten Island, NY and elsewhere Entered into rest June 7 1864 age 59 years "In the Service of his Country and for his Master" Note: Winslow stone, only Miron is readable other sides eroded badly.
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D D L L D 74 yrs.
Additional information provided by: Albuquerque Firefly
One of the three sons of Nathaniel Winslow, all eminent divines, who died in the same year. One monument to all three, of Isle-la-Motte marble:
Three Brothers, Born in Williston of the seventh (fifth) generation of the Pilgrim fathers "Their works do follow them"
WINSLOW
Miron Winslow, DD, LL.D Forty-Five Years Missionary in India Died at the Cape of Good Hope, Oct 22 1864, aged 64 years "Thy Life to the Cross was Wholly devoted"
Hubbard Winslow, DD Author, Educator, Pastor at Boston and elsewhere Entered into Rest Aug 13 1864 age 64 years "Always abounding in the work of the Lord"
Gordon Winslow, DD, MD Rector at Staten Island, NY and elsewhere Entered into rest June 7 1864 age 59 years "In the Service of his Country and for his Master"
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Cenotaph. He is buried at Here in Maitland Cemetery in South Africa
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Miron and his 1st wife, Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop Winslow, had 6 children. Two reached adulthood:
The younger children:
1: Charles Lathrop Winslow 1821 - 1832 2: Harriet Marie Winslow 1822 - 1825 3: Joanna Winslow 1825 - ? 4: George Morton Winslow 1827 - 1838
5: Harriet Lathrop Winslow (66115152 Harriet Winslow Dulles) 4/19/1829 in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - 9/01/861 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania married Rev. John Welsh Dulles (66115133 John Welsh Dulles) 11/04/1823 Philadelphia, PA -4/13/1887 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
6: Eliza Coit Winslow 1/04/1831 Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - 8/11/1861 married Henry M. Leavitt born 1828
Miron's first wife: Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop Winslow died 1833 Uduvil, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where she is buried.
Miron 2nd wife: Catherine Waterbury Carman m. in 1835 1 daughter, Catherine Waterbury Winslow, 1837 died as infant (7 mo's) Catherine Winslow died 1837 Madras, India
Miron 3rd wife: Ann Spiers of Madras, daughter of Lord Dundas of England m. 1838. They had 3 children 1: Charles 1838 2: Myron, jr. 1840 3: Archibald Spiers 1845
Ann Spiers Winslow died 1844
Miron 4th wife: Mary W. (Dwight) Billings m. 1845 Mary Winslow died 1852
Miron 4th wife: Ellen Augusta Reed of Boston
Miron Winslow died in South Africa although there is a graveside for him, along with his brothers, in East Cemetery, Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont Note: Winslow stone, only Miron is readable other sides eroded badly.
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Rev. Miron Winslow, D.D., L.L.D.'s Timeline
| 1789 |
December 11, 1789
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Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
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| 1829 |
April 19, 1829
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Uduvil, North Eastern Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
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| 1831 |
January 4, 1831
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Ceylon
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| 1864 |
October 22, 1864
Age 74
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Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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October 22, 1864
Age 74
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East Cemetery, Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
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