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Bliss (EDWIN ELISHA an Ameri can)

EDWIN ELISHA, an Ameri. can missionary, born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1817; graduated at Amherst College in 1837, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1842; was ordained as a missionary in 1843, 1843, and joined the American Mission in Turkey, being stationed at Trebizond, 1843-1852; Marsovan, Armenia, 1852-1856; and at Constantinople after 1856. In addition to the ordinary work of a missionary he edited, Porto Rico in the Spanish-American 1865-1892, the "Messenger," published at War and became commandant of the Constantinople in the Turkish and Arme- Army War College in 1903. He was nian languages, and compiled a number made Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army of text books, notably the "Bible Hand- in 1917, succeeding Major Gen. Hugh L. book," in Armenian. He died in Constan- Scott. During the World War he repretinople, Turkey, Dec. 29, 1892.