Miron Winslow was an American

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 Congregational missionary. He was born at Williston

Williston, Vermont

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, Vt.

Vermont

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, graduated at Middlebury College

Middlebury College

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, 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1818. In 1819 he went to Ceylon

Sri Lanka

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, as a missionary of the American Board's American Ceylon Mission

American Ceylon Mission

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, and served there (from 1836) in southern India

South India

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 for 44 years. He prepared a Tamil

Tamil language

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 and English

English language

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 dictionary, completed in 1862. It was based in part on manuscript

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 material of the Rev. Joseph Knight, of the London Missionary Society

London Missionary Society

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, and the Rev. Samuel Hutchings, of the American mission, and was the most complete dictionary of a modern Indian language published at that time.

External links

• Winslow, Miron. A comprehensive Tamil and English dictionary of high and low Tamil. Madras: P.R. Hunt, 1862.