Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . n black sand, and hewas made a member of the Eoyal Societyof London. He was the first to introducethe white mulberry into Connecticut, andwith it silk-worms, and published atreatise on silk-culture. Mr. Eliot wasalso an able physician, and was particu-larly successful in the treatment of in-sanity and chronic complaints. He diedin Killingworth, Conn., April 22, 1763. Eliot, Jonis, the Apostle to the Indians;born either in Nasing, Essex, or Widford,Hertfordshire, England, presumab
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . n black sand, and hewas made a member of the Eoyal Societyof London. He was the first to introducethe white mulberry into Connecticut, andwith it silk-worms, and published atreatise on silk-culture. Mr. Eliot wasalso an able physician, and was particu-larly successful in the treatment of in-sanity and chronic complaints. He diedin Killingworth, Conn., April 22, 1763. Eliot, Jonis, the Apostle to the Indians;born either in Nasing, Essex, or Widford,Hertfordshire, England, presumably in1604, as he was baptized in Widford, , 1604. Educated at Cambridge, he re-moved to Boston in 1631, and the nextyear was appointed minister at with a passionate longing for theconversion of the Indians and for improv-ing their condition, he commenced hisLabors among the twenty tribes withinthe English domain in Massachusetts inand October, 1646. He acquired their lan-guage through an Indian servant in hisfamily, made a grammar of it, and trans-and lated the Bible into the Indian CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT. the American Academy of ArtsSciences, the American Philosophical So-ciety, etc. He has given many noteworthy addresses on educational scientific subjects. He is the author of It is claimed that Eliot was the firstManual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis Protestant minister who preached to the? -- - Manual Indians in their native tongue. An Ind- (with Prof. Francis H. Storer)of Inorganic Chemistry (with the same) ;Five American Conirihutions to Cirili^a-tion, and other Essays; Educational Re-form, etc. ian town called Natiek was erected on theCharles River for the praying Indiansin 1057, and the first Indian church wasestablished there in 1660. During King 213 ELIOT, JOHN
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