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	Benjamin Silliman - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
		Benjamin Silliman, (1777-1864), was born in North Stratford, Connecticut.
		Benjamin Sillimon was appointed by the President Timothy Dwight IV of Yale, and he studied chemistry with a professor James Woodhouse for Chemistry and Natural History.
		Benjamin Silliman was against slavery, even though his family had slaves; Benjamin's mother, Mary, sold some of slaves for Benjamin and his brother to pay tutition to go to Yale.
	creationwiki.org /Benjamin_Silliman (757 words)

	Benjamin Silliman - LoveToKnow 1911
		BENJAMIN SILLIMAN (1779-1864), American chemist and geologist, was born on the 8th of August 1779 at Trumbull (then called North Stratford), Connecticut.
		His son, Benjamin Silliman (1816-1885), chemist and mineralogist, was born at New Haven on the 4th of December 1816.
		After graduating at Yale in 1837 he became assistant to his father, and in 1847 was appointed professor in the school of applied chemistry, which was largely due to his efforts and formed the nucleus of the subsequent Sheffield Scientific School.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Benjamin_Silliman (568 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 – 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum.
		Silliman was born in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, at a family friend's home a few months after his mother fled for her life from their Fairfield, Connecticut home ahead of 2,000 invading British troops that burned Fairfield center to the ground.
		Silliman died at New Haven and is buried in Grove Street Cemetery.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Benjamin_Silliman (498 words)

	Benjamin Silliman - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was one of the first American professors of science.
		Silliman studied chemistry with Professor James Woodhouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and delivered his first lectures in chemistry at Yale in 1804.
		Silliman was an opponent of slavery and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Benjamin_Silliman (357 words)

	Gold Selleck Silliman
		Professor Silliman was chosen first president in 1840 of the American association of geologists and naturalists, which has since grown into the American association for the advancement of science, and he was one of the corporate members named by congress in the formation of the National academy of sciences in 1863.
		Professor Silliman was a member of the common council of New Haven in 1845-'9, and one of the trustees of the Peabody museum of natural history.
		In 1869 Professor Silliman became one of the state chemists of Connecticut, and in that capacity was employed as a scientific witness in the courts.
	www.famousamericans.net /goldsellecksilliman (2625 words)

	Benjamin Silliman - Encyclopedia.com
		Silliman was the second son of Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at Yale College.
		A son, Gabriel Jordan, was born to Katherine and Craig Silliman, of Washington.
		A son, Benjamin Edward Meissner, was born to Janet and David Pritchard, of Washington.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Silliman.html (990 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Benjamin Silliman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Professor Silliman was chosen first president in 1840 of the American association of geologists and naturalists, which has since grown into the American association for the advancement of science, and he was one of the corporate members named by congress in the formation of the National academy of sciences in 1863.
		Silliman sought to fill this gap by study abroad, and spent 1805 and 1806 in England and Scotland, notably at the University of Edinburgh.
		Silliman little imagined that before long there would be a surfeit of American fossils, fossils that would eclipse his precious minerals in their fascination for the public — O.C. Marsh’s dinosaurs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Benjamin-Silliman (1367 words)

	Silliman College
		Benjamin Silliman's mother, Mary, was the largest slave owner in Fairfield county (85).
		Silliman was ready to free Ely at the age of 25, but brother William settled with Hubbel that he should own the service of the boy an extra year.
		In fact, Silliman's entire sermon was responding to an event that had occurred the previous year: In 1831, efforts to establish a "Negro college" in New Haven had been squelched.
	www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/silliman.html (844 words)

	Yale Peabody Museum: History and Archives: Benjamin Silliman
		Silliman left for 2 winters to study at the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania, and in his spare time he and chemist Robert Hare performed experiments in a laboratory they set up in a cellar kitchen of their boarding house.
		Silliman sought to fill this gap by study abroad, and spent 1805 and 1806 in England and Scotland, notably at the University of Edinburgh.
		Silliman little imagined that before long there would be a surfeit of American fossils, fossils that would eclipse his precious minerals in their fascination for the public — O.C. Marsh’s dinosaurs.
	www.yale.edu /peabody/archives/ypmbios/silliman.html (464 words)

	Yale Peabody Museum: History and Archives: Benjamin Silliman
		Silliman left for 2 winters to study at the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania, and in his spare time he and chemist Robert Hare performed experiments in a laboratory they set up in a cellar kitchen of their boarding house.
		Silliman sought to fill this gap by study abroad, and spent 1805 and 1806 in England and Scotland, notably at the University of Edinburgh.
		Silliman little imagined that before long there would be a surfeit of American fossils, fossils that would eclipse his precious minerals in their fascination for the public — O.C. Marsh’s dinosaurs.
	www.peabody.yale.edu /archives/ypmbios/silliman.html (464 words)

	Benjamin Silliman Biography and Summary
		Benjamin Silliman was born on Aug. 8, 1779, in what is now Trumbull, Conn., and brought up in...
		Silliman is remembered through the mineral sillimanite, an aluminosilicate mineral found in rocks exposed to high temperatures....
		Benjamin Silliman(8 August 1779- 24 November 1864) was one of the first American professors of science.
	www.bookrags.com /Benjamin_Silliman (202 words)

	Biography of Augustus Ely Silliman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SILLIMAN, Augustus Ely, financier and author, was born at Newport, R. I., Apr. 11, 1807; son of Gold Selleck Silliman, the second, and brother of Benjamin Douglas Silliman.
		Silliman devoted himself to astronomical and other studies, and to the enjoyment of literature and the fine arts, and to revising a volume published in his earlier days, entitled “A Gallop among American Scenery, or Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure,” which received abundant praise for its brilliant descriptive passages and original style.
		Silliman was an active member, were the Century Club and the Long Island Historical Society, and the Mercantile Library Association of New York, of which he was for a time the president.
	pequotsgallop.com /AESilliman.htm (666 words)

	About the American Philosophical Society
		From the eighteenth century to the present, authors include John Bartram, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Silliman, Franz Boas, Otto Neugebauer, and Erica Reiner.
		Among the most frequently used collections are the Benjamin Franklin Papers, the papers of the artist Charles Willson Peale and family, and the papers of Franz Boas, founder of modern American anthropology.
		Renamed Benjamin Franklin Hall, this facility has been fully renovated and now houses a modern auditorium seating 400 on two levels, a reception area, and seminar and exhibition spaces.
	www.amphilsoc.org /about (1917 words)

	The Prize
		A professor's salary in the 1850s was hardly generous, and in the quest for extra income, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., the son of a great American chemist and himself a distinguished professor of chemistry at Yale University, had taken on an outside research project for a fee totaling $526.08.
		Yale was the scientific capital of mid-nineteenth-century America, and the Sillimans, father and son, were at the center of it.
		Silliman's study, as one historian put it, was nothing less than "a turning point in the establishment of the petroleum business." Silliman banished any doubts about the potential new uses for rock oil.
	www.businessweek.com /chapter/yergin.htm (7782 words)

	Benjamin Silliman - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Benjamin, in the Old Testament (see Genesis 42-45), youngest and most beloved son of the patriarch Jacob and founder of the Israelite tribe of...
		Silliman University, at Dumaguete, on Negros island, Philippines.
		Silliman University was established as Silliman Institute by the United States...
	encarta.msn.com /Benjamin_Silliman.html (103 words)

	Eliakim Beach's Tavern
		On August 8th, she gave birth at the ordinary to one of early America's most prominent scientists, Benjamin Silliman, for whom Silliman College at Yale is named after.
		Benjamin Silliman's achievements include founding Yale University's Departments of Chemistry and Natural History in 1802, the first time such curriculum was offered in either American and British institutions, and also beginning the American Journal of Science which is still published today.
		In 1809, Benjamin Silliman married Harriet Trumbull, daughter of Governor Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
	www.trumbullhistory.org /written/eliakim.shtml (613 words)

	The Face of Connecticut (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The earliest study of Connecticut geology was carried out in the summer of 1806 by Benjamin Silliman, then 27 years old and Yale University's first and only professor of chemistry and natural history.
		Five years before, Silliman was about to complete a law degree when Timothy Dwight, president of Yale and a close family friend, asked him if he would like to drop his law career to teach chemistry and natural history at Yale.
		Silliman saw the land in much the same way as today's geologists see it, but his interpretations of these observations were very different indeed.
	g3.tmsc.org /face_of_ct/112.htm (386 words)

	Notable Backuses
		The mother of Benjamin Silliman Church was the daughter of Prof.
		Benjamin Silliman of Yale, and granddaughter of Jonathan Trumbull ("Brother Jonathan").
		Benjamin S. Church was graduated at the Chandler school of science and the arts, Dartmouth college, in 1856, and entered upon the profession of civil engineering.
	members.tripod.com /~ntgen/bw/bkus_fmus4.html (1636 words)

	Simon & Schuster UK LTD
		A professor's salary in the 1850s was hardly generous, and in the quest for extra income, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., the son of a great American chemist and himself a distinguished professor of chemistry at Yale University, had taken on an outside research project for a fee totaling $526.08.
		Benjamin Silliman, Jr., he said, "is on the constant go in behalf of one thing or another, and alas for Science."
		Silliman's study, as one historian put it, was nothing less than "a turning point in the establishment of the petroleum business." Silliman banished any doubts about the potential new uses for rock oil.
	www.simonsays.com /subs/excerpt.cfm?isbn=0671799320&areaid=286 (7597 words)

	texts
		Benjamin Silliman, “Appendix” on “The Consistency of Geology with Sacred History,” in Robert Bakewell, An Introduction to Geology, 3rd American edition from the 5th London edition (New Haven, 1839), pp.
		Born in North Stratford (now Trumbull), Connecticut, during the American Revolution, Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was the second son of General Gold Silliman of the Continental Army, who was at the time of his son's birth being held prisoner on Long Island.
		At Yale, Silliman enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a highly influential teacher (many leading American scientists were his former pupils), travelling lecturer, and founding editor of the American Journal of Science and founding member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	home.messiah.edu /~TDAVIS/texts.htm (914 words)

	Yale and Medicine, 1701-1901: Founding of the Medical Institution of Yale College
		His hiring of Benjamin Silliman as professor of chemistry at Yale College in 1802 and his support for Silliman's subsequent training in chemistry and medicine, was a first step creating a medical faculty.
		Silliman graduated from Yale College in 1798 and was preparing for a law career when Timothy Dwight appointed him first professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale College in 1801.
		Silliman acquired an international reputation as a chemist, textbook author, and founder and editor of the American Journal of Science (1818).
	info.med.yale.edu /library/exhibits/yalemed1/medinstyalecoll.html (2218 words)

	Silliman College - Silliman Pages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Silliman College was opened in 1940 as the last of the original ten colleges.
		The college was named after Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), the father of American scientific education.
		Silliman also played a leading role in organizing the Sheffield Scientific School in 1847, an event that marked the dawn of professional scientific education in the United States
	www.sillimancollege.org /modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=9 (252 words)

	Benjamin Silliman - a Life in the Young Republic - Chandos Michael Brown
		Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the Early Republic and a founder of the American scientific community.
		He describes Silliman's education at Yale College and in Philadelphia, his European tour, and his subsequent activities as a professor of chemistry and mineralogy, founder of the Yale Medical School, and editor of the American Journal of Science.
		Throughout this cultural biography, Silliman appears as the concerned member of an often troubled family--a man who nonetheless managed to achieve that elusive quality, greatly admired by his contemporaries, that of the representative American.
	www.biblio.com /books/77383836.html (409 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Home Front
		Silliman and what men he could keep together fought in the string of battles as the American army was driven out of Long Island, New York City, Harlem Heights, and White Plains.
		Although the Silliman compound was three miles from the center of town and actually escaped destruction, Mary took no chances and evacuated the whole family and its servants and hangers-on to a prudently prepared refuge inland.
		All unknowing, he held the future in his arms, for Benjamin Silliman would become the foremost scientist of the coming age, the first professor of chemistry at Yale, a geologist, and a founder, as was his scientist son, also Benjamin, of the National Academy of Sciences, in 1863.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1992/8/1992_8_60_print.shtml (1862 words)

	Catherine Barnes Historical Autographs > James Madison autograph, letters, documents, manuscripts, signatures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A leading American chemist, geologist and mineralogist, Silliman transformed the teaching of these subjects in the U.S. during his many years as a professor at Yale and through his publications and public lectures.
		In 1818, Silliman drafted plans for a new scientific publication, the American Journal of Science (and Arts), and he sent a copy of his proposal to Madison.
		Silliman himself edited it (on his own for twenty years, and after that, with aid from his son, Benjamin Jr., and his son-in-law, James Dwight Dana), and he “assiduously promoted [the publication] by soliciting articles and financial support.
	www.barnesautographs.com /pages/inventory/madison_j.htm (359 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Benjamin Silliman and His Circle: Studies on the Influence of Benjamin Silliman on Science in America.
		Includes a biographical essay by Wilson and an intensive intellectual analysis of Silliman's thought by John C. Greene.
		Silliman was a seminal figure in the teaching of chemistry at Yale and founder and editor of American Journal of Science and the Arts.
	www.ctheritage.org /biography/bioindividuals/silliman.htm (115 words)

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