Miron Winslow

Miron Winslow
Rev. Miron Winslow.

Miron Winslow (1789-1864) was an American Congregational missionary. He was born at Williston, Vt., graduated at Middlebury College, 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1818. In 1819 he went to Ceylon, as a missionary of the American Board's American Ceylon Mission, and served there (from 1836) in southern India for 44 years. He prepared a Tamil and English dictionary, completed in 1862. It was based in part on manuscript material of the Rev. Joseph Knight, 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.

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