Background
Nassau, Robert Hamill was born on October 11, 1835 in at Montgomery Square, near Philadelphia. Son of Charles William (Doctor of Divinity) and Hannah McClintock (Hamill) N.
Nassau, Robert Hamill was born on October 11, 1835 in at Montgomery Square, near Philadelphia. Son of Charles William (Doctor of Divinity) and Hannah McClintock (Hamill) N.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1854, Master of Arts, 1857. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1859. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1861, honorary South.T.D., 1891.
Ordained to Presbyterian ministry, and started as missionary to Africa, July 2, 1861.
Resigned as missionary, December 1906, after 45 years’ service. Pioneer, explorer, translator, contributor to science. Sent large ethnological collections to University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton.
Sent first entire carcass of gorilla to the United States and the only perfect gorilla brains examined by anatomists, up to 1891.
Author: Crowned in Palmland, 1874. Mawedo, 1881; Fetichism in West Africa, 1904.
The Path She Trod, 1909. Tales Out of School, 1911.
Corisco Days, 1910; The Youngest King, 1911.
Where Animals Talk, 1912. In an Elephant Corral, 1912. My Ogowe, 1913; History of the West Africa Mission, 1919.
Also grammar and Bible translation in Benga language of West. Equatorial Africa.
Address: Ambler, Pennsylvania Deceased.
Married Mary Cloyd Latta, September 1862 (died 1870). Married second, Mary Brunette Foster, October 10, 1881 (died 1884).