About Samuel Weed Barnum
Lived 1820 – 1891 (aged 71). Samuel Weed Barnum was a linguist and lexicographer.
Samuel Weed Barnum (June 4, 1820 – November 18, 1891) was an American minister and author.
Early life and education Barnum, the only son of Horace and Cynthia (Weed) Barnum, was born in North Salem, Westchester County, New York, on June 4, 1820, and removed to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1835.
Barnum graduated from Yale College in 1841. He studied in the Yale Divinity School from 1841 to 1844, but during his theological course, and afterwards, he suffered much from ill-health. Barnum died from heart-disease, in New Haven, on November 18, 1891, in his 72nd year.
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American minister and author
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Samuel Weed Barnum died on 18 November 1891.
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Samuel Weed Barnum was a linguist and lexicographer.
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