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Selah Merrill, (May 2, 1837 – January 22, 1909) was an American Congregationalist clergyman. He served as the American consul in Jerusalem.〔(Oasis outside the walls, Jerusalem Post )〕 ==Biography== Selah Merrill was born in Canton Centre, Connecticut on May 2, 1837 and died on January 22, 1909 at Fruitvale, California.〔(Selah Merrill ) at Find A Grave〕 He was the son of Lydia Richards〔She was the granddaughter of Captain Samuel Richards who served in the American Revolutionary war in the 1st New Hampshire Regiment under Col John Stark. He saw action in the Battle of Bunker Hill and at Ticonderoga.〕 and Daniel Merrill and was a member of the fifth generation of the Merrill family in America. The Merrills were descended from an old and esteemed Massachusetts family and his original immigrant ancestor was Nathaniel Merrill from Wherstead, County Suffolk, England and was one of the earliest settlers in Newbury, Massachusetts. After graduating from Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, he studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He studied theology at the New Haven Theological Seminary, graduating in 1863, and was ordained in the Congregational Church, at Feeding Mills, Massachusetts in 1864. He then spent two years (1868–1870) in Germany at the Berlin where he studied the ancient Hebrew language. He received the degree of A. M. from Yale College; D. D. from Grinnell College in 1875; and a LL. D. from Union College in 1884. He served as a chaplain of the 49th U. S. Colored Infantry, also known as the 11th Louisiana Regiment Infantry, at Vicksburg, Mississippi from 1864 until the close of the War.〔Organized at Milliken's Bend, La., from May 23 to August 22, 1863, as the 11th Regiment, La. Volunteers; designated this regiment, March 11, 1864; mustered out, March 22, 1866.〕 In 1866, he married Fanny Lucinda Cooke, who died the following year.〔Goldman, p. 216〕 In 1868, he married Mrs. Phila (Wilkin) Fargo, who died only two years later.〔Goldman, p. 216〕 On April 26, 1875, at Andover, Massachusetts, he married Adelaide Brewster Taylor.〔Jones, p. 1040〕〔Jones, p. 1041〕 She was born on January 14, 1845 at Rochester, Monroe County, New York; and died on January 24, 1929 in Piedmont, Alameda County, California.〔(Adelaide Brewster Taylor Merrill ) at Find A Grave〕 She was the daughter of Dr. Oliver Brewster Taylor,〔Jones, p. 1040〕〔Jones, p. 609〕 an 1848 graduate of Harvard University, and Sophia Hale Hubbard. She was the great granddaughter of Dr. Oliver Wadsworth Brewster,〔Jones, pp. 269-271〕 who served in Col. John Brown's regiment in the American Revolutionary War and was the first physician in Becket, Massachusetts. His home, built in 1786, is still standing and is currently occupied by the Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA. In 1915, his wife donated his Josephus collection to Yale University and promoted the posthumous publication of his ''New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible''.〔Goldman, p. 223〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Selah Merrill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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