Background
Bliss, Edwin Munsell was born on September 12, 1848 in Erzrum, Turkey. Son of Review Isaac G. (agent American Bible Society for the Levant at Constantinople) and Eunice (Day) B.
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Edwin Munsell Bliss
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Education high school, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1866-1867, Robert College, Constantinople, 1862-1863. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1871. Studied Yale Division School, 1871-1872 and 1875-1877.
(Doctor of Divinity, Amherst, 1896, for special work on Encyclopedia of Missions).
Career
2d, E. Theodora Crosby, November 8, 1900. Appointed assistant agent American Bible Society for The Levant, at Constantinople, 1872. Traveled extensively in Turkey and Persia.
Returned to the United States, 1888. Edited Encyclopedia of Missions, 1889-1891. Associate editor The Independent, 1891-1901.
Also editorial writer Harper’s Weekly and New York Times, 1901-1902. Field secretary American Tract Society for N.E. Special agent bureau of the Census, April 1, 1907.
General secretary Foreign Missions Industrial Association, 1905. Congregationalist. Author: Encyclopedia of Missions, 1891. Turk in Armenia, Crete and Greece, 1896.
Concise History of Missions, 1897. The Missionary Enterprise. Editor Census Report on Religious Bodies, 1906, 16.
Census Report on Benevolent Institutions, 1913. Summary of State Laws relating to Dependent Classes, 1913.
Connections
Married Marie Louise Henderson, June 5, 1885 (died 1887).
