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Aldine Silliman Kieffer Aldine Silliman Kieffer (August 1, 1840 – November 30, 1904) was a leading 19th century proponent of shape note musical notation, music teacher and publisher. Kieffer was born near Miami, Missouri, Miami, Saline County, Missouri. He died in ...
(1840–1904), American musician *
Benjamin Silliman Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an American chemist and science education, science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, the first science professor at Yale University, Yale, and the firs ...
(1779–1864), American chemist * Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885), American chemist * Benjamin D. Silliman (1805–1901), American lawyer and politician * Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), American attorney and Revolutionary War figure * Horace Brinsmade Silliman (1825-1910), founder of Silliman University * Jael Silliman, American writer * Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886–1918), American writer *
Robert Hillyer Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934. Early life Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey ...
aka Robert Silliman Hillyer (1895–1961), American poet * Ron Silliman (born 1946), American poet


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Silliman College Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The college is named for Benjamin Silliman, the first science professor at Yale. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential c ...
at Yale University *
Silliman University Silliman University (also referred to as Silliman or SU) is a private, Protestant, and research university located in Dumaguete City, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is ...
, Dumaguete City, Philippines * USC&GS Silliman


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Sillimanite Sillimanite or fibrolite is an aluminosilicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. Sillimanite is named after the American chemist Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864). It was first described in 1824 for an occurrence in Chester, Connecticut ...
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