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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Miron Winslow (1789–1864)

Winslow, Miron. An American missionary; born at Williston, VT, Dec. 11, 1789; died at the Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 22, 1864. He went as a missionary to Ceylon, 1819; founded the Madras mission, 1836; was president of the native college at Madras, 1840; translated the Bible into Tamil, 1835. He wrote: ‘Memoir of Mrs. Harriet Winslow’ (1835), his wife; and ‘A Tamil and English Dictionary’ (1862), his great work, containing over 67,000 Tamil words.