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Miron Winslow December 11, 1789, in Williston, Vermont, the son of Nathaniel Winslow, Jr. and Joanna Kellogg, and a descendant of Kenelm Winslow, a native of Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, who came to the Plymouth Colony about 1629.
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Miron Winslow December 11, 1789, in Williston, Vermont, the son of Nathaniel Winslow, Jr. and Joanna Kellogg, and a descendant of Kenelm Winslow, a native of Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, who came to the Plymouth Colony about 1629.
From the age of fourteen until he was twenty-one Miron served as clerk in a village store and then was in business for himself for two years in Norwich, Connecticut.
In 1811 he united with the Congregational Church of Norwich, and began to consider the possibility of becoming a missionary. He had continued his studies while in business and was able to enter Middlebury College in 1813 with advanced standing. Graduating in 1815, he proceeded to Andover Theological Seminary in January of the following year, and in 1818 received the degree of B. D. , and an honorary degree of A. M. from Yale. While engaged in his professional studies he traveled during vacations collecting funds for foreign missions, and wrote A Sketch of Missions (1819).
In June 1818 he was licensed to preach by the Londonderry Presbytery, East Bradford, Massachusetts, and on November 4, in Salem, Massachusetts, he and Pliny Fisk, Levi Spaulding, and Henry Woodward, were ordained as missionaries. On June 8, 1819, Winslow sailed from Boston for India with Spaulding, Woodward, and John Scudder, arriving at Calcutta on October 19, and at Jaffna, Ceylon on February 18, 1820. He was stationed at Oodooville, Ceylon, from July 1819 to 1833, working among the Tamils of that region as preacher, educator, and translator. He spent the next two years in America, writing during the time A Memoir of Mrs. Harriet Wadsworth Winslow, Combining a Sketch of the Ceylon Mission (1835).
Returning to the East in 1835, he arrived at Madras on March 22, 1836, visited Madura, and continued on to Ceylon. Instructed to open in Madras a new station, especially for printing and publication, he removed thither in August 1836 and made this city his residence for the remainder of his life, visiting America again but once (1856 - 1857). He was chosen by the Madras Bible Society to serve on its committee for revising the Tamil Bible, an undertaking upon which he was engaged for many years. At the same time he worked on the Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil, which was published in 1862. This monumental work had been begun in 1833 by a Jaffna missionary of the Church Missionary Society and had been continued by Levi Spaulding (Tamil) and Samuel Hutchings (English-Tamil). The final comprehensive edition by Winslow, containing 67, 450 words with definitions, was heralded as "a noble contribution to Oriental Literature" (Missionary Herald, May 1863, p. 132). Winslow's health was poor at times, and he had at last to withdraw from service, leaving India on August 29, 1864, bound for home. His journey, however, ended at Capetown, South Africa, where he died on October 22, 1864 and was buried.
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On January 11, 1819, in Norwich, Connecticut, Miron Winslow married Harriet Wadsworth Lathrop, daughter of Charles Lathrop. Six children were born of this union.
On April 23, 1835, Winslow married Catherine Waterbury, by whom he had one daughter.
His second wife died in 1837, and on September 2, 1838, he married Anna Spiers, by whom he had three sons.
His third wife died who in 1843, and on March 12, 1845, he married Mrs. Mary W. Dwight, who died on April 20, 1852, and on May 20, 1857, he married Ellen Augusta Reed.