Person:Myron Winslow (1)

WINSLOW, Myron, missionary, brother of Hubbard and Gordon Winslow, was born at Williston, Vt., on December 11, 1789. He was graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., and from Andover Theological Seminary, and then went to Ceylon as a missionary of the American Board. After sixteen years there he removed to Madras, where he spent twenty-eight years, and founded a college and several schools. He published a Tamil edition of the Bible, a Tamil dictionary and several other works. He died at the Cape of Good Hope, on his way home, on October 22, 1`864.

This distinguished Missionary and Oriental scholar, as we learn of the last arrival from Europe, died at the Cape of Good Hope, while on his way from India to England. He was seventy-six years of age, and had been forty-five years in the service of the American Board. No just conception of his valuable and eventful life can be given in this place, and we merely give a few facts of his career.

Dr. WINSLOW came from the old WINSLOW family of New-England, inheriting all their vigor of intellect and purity of character. But recently we recorded the death of his brothers. One of them was the late Rev. Dr. WINSLOW, of the Sanitary Commission, and the other Rev. HUBBARD WIHSLOW. D.D., the eminent divine and author who died last August.

Dr. WINSLOW graduated at college with the valedictory, and after a course of study at Andover, Mass., sailed in 1819 for Ceylon, where are laid the first scenes of his missionary career. He was a pioneer in the work of Christianizing India, and no man has so impressed that land with the influences of truth and religions liberty as has Dr. WINSLOW.

The chief labors of Dr. WINSLOW were at Madras. As General Secretary of that and other missions, as President of the Madras College, and the head of the native schools, he had abundant and incessant labors to perform. The college numbered several hundred students. The care of a native church also devolved upon him. But Dr, WINSLOW accomplished other objects of importance. He published a "History of Missions," "Hints on Missions," and translated the Bible into Tamil, A short time since, he was enabled to bring to a successful close his great "Tamil and English Lexicon," upon which he had labored over twenty years. The work has been, by competent authority, pronounced the greatest achievement of any American scholar and missionary. It is a quarto of 1,000 pages, and 68,000 words transmitted into English, of which one half were collected by the author. The dictionary is a complete one, containing the mythology of India, names of heroes, poets, warriors, &c., definitions and illustrations of the Brahmaic tongue. It is a work greatly needed in christianizing and civilizing that people, and the native and English press have been loud in their expression of thanks to the author.

Dr. WINSLOW has closed a long life of the most eminent usefulness and devotion. How well he has fulfilled his mission, the work and labors of nearly half a century declare in influences which never die. The friends of missionary enterprise ail over the world will not soon forget the name and the works of MYRON WINSLOW.

Miron Winslow [#6834], s/o Nathaniel Winslow [#6832] and [p. 591] Joanna Kellogg, b. Williston, VT, 11 Dec 1789, d. Cape Town, South Africa, 22 Oct 1864, m. (1) Norwich, CT, 11 Jan 1819 Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop, m. (2) New York City 23 Apr 1835 Catherine (Waterbury) Carman, m. (3) Madras, India, Annie Spiers, m. (4) Madras 12 Mar 1845 Mary W. (Billings) Dwight, m. (5) Boston 20 May 1857 Ellen Augusta Reed who survived him.

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Miron Winslow (11 December 1789 – 22 October 1864) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to the 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, the first and chief station of the American Madras Mission. Harriet Winslow, his wife, also served as a missionary alongside and wrote a memoir thereof.

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 pastor 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.<ref></ref><ref></ref> The book later become the basis for the more exhaustive Tamil Lexicon dictionary published by the University of Madras in 1924.

John Foster Dulles, the US Secretary of State (1953-1959), and Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of the CIA (1953-1961), were his great-grandchildren through his daughter Harriet Lathrop Winslow and her husband John Welsh Dulles.

1816 Miron Winslow Teacher of Penmanship 1816
Son of Nathaniel Winslow and Anna Kellogg;
born, Williston, Vt., Dec. 11, 1789;
Middlebury College, 1815;
Andover Seminary, 1818;
while at Andover published valuable History of Missions ;
missionary in India forty-six years ;
president of native college in Madras ;
translated the Bible into Tamil, and published Tamil-English Dictionary ;
died, Cape of Good Hope, while on the way to America, Oct. 22, 1864.
D.D., Harvard, 1858 ;
LL.D., Middlebury, 1864.