SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN

the name of two American chemists, father and son. The father, 1779-1864, served from 1802-53 as profe or of chemistry and mineralogy at his own University of Yale. He was the founder and, from 1818-38, the editor of the American Journal of Science and Arts. The son, 1816-85, was a chi of founder of the Sheffield School of Science, Yale, and taught chemistry in its precursor from 1847. In 1854 he succeeded_his father as profe or of chemistry in Yale. He did much original work in mineralogy and applied chemistry. TON (1879), college president, b. at Halifax, N.S., s. of Charles Morton and Elizabeth Head Ketchum Sills. He was educated at Bowdoin, Harvard and Columbia Universities. He taught succe ively at Harvard, Bowdoin and then Columbia, until 1907 and then became permanently connected with Bowdoin and in 1918 was made president | of that instituti on. Author: The First American and Other Poems, 1911.; ag este it gee aap Brae pone by Hezekiah to bring water to the city.