While at Yale, he attended lectures on electricity from Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day.

The summer after the one Morey spent at Hartford, he returned to New York and gave Livingston a ride in his boat ( perhaps at the advice of Benjamin Silliman — the publisher of Morey's papers — who knew Livingston to be a supporter of the arts ).

* Franklin Rosemont 1943 – 2009 This " cyber-tombeau " at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links

In 1967 Bronowski delivered the six Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University and chose as his subject the role of imagination and symbolic language in the progress of scientific knowledge.

* David Bromige 1933-2009 This " cyber-tombeau " at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links

* Benjamin Silliman ( 1779 – 1864 ), first professor of science at Yale and first to distill petroleum.

When Silliman later became Professor of Chemistry at Yale College ( precursor to Yale University ) in New Haven, he ordered his first laboratory equipment from Accum in London.

Silliman as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C.

Benjamin Silliman ( 8 August 1779 – 24 November 1864 ) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science ( at Yale University ), and the first to distill petroleum.

Silliman studied chemistry with Professor James Woodhouse at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and delivered his first lectures in chemistry at Yale in 1804.

Some time around 1818, Ephraim Lane took some samples of rocks he found at an area called Saganawamps, now a part of the Old Mine Park Archeological Site in Trumbull, Connecticut to Silliman for identification.

His son Benjamin Silliman Jr., also a professor of chemistry at Yale, wrote a report that convinced investors to back George Bissell's seminal search for oil.

Silliman died at New Haven and is buried in Grove Street Cemetery.

Still suffering from effects of the Great Depression, the paper was sold at auction in 1937, when it was purchased for $ 850, 000 by Silliman Evans, Sr. a former reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

In 1961, Silliman Evans Jr. died of a heart attack at age 36 while on his boat on Old Hickory Lake.

He commissioned a number of campus buildings at Yale University by architect Charles C. Haight that survive to this day, from campus dormitories comprising the present-day Silliman College, to Vanderbilt Hall, Phelps Hall, the Mason, Sloane and Osborn laboratories, and his secret society, St. Anthony Hall.

In 1836 and 1837 he was assistant to Professor Silliman in the chemical laboratory at Yale, and then, for four years, acted as mineralogist and geologist of the United States Exploring Expedition, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, in the Pacific Ocean.

; The Integrative Action of the Nervous System: Published in 1906, this was a compendium of Sherrington's Silliman lectures, delivered at Yale University in 1904.

Silliman was a professor of chemistry and taught at both Yale College and the Medical School.

Initially, he pursued his college education at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, and later studied at the Philippine Law School ( now Philippine College of Criminology ) where he earned his law degree in 1923.

The Anthropology Museum is located at the old Silliman Hall on the southeastern side of the main campus.

He likewise launched the Dr. Jovito Salonga Center for Law and Development at the Silliman University College of Law to pioneer and develop what the law center calls as Transformative Law – " the study and application of law to transform society, shape policies through advocacy, legal education, research, training, and service learning ".

Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and the important Language School anthology In the American Tree ( edited by Ron Silliman ).

Silliman University is the first American private school in the Philippines.

* August 28 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines, the first American private school in the country.

* August 5 – Ron Silliman, American poet

* Gold Selleck Silliman ( 1732 – 1790 ) of the town of Fairfield fought for the Americans during the American Revolutionary War and rose to the rank of Brigadier General by 1776.

Living in the Bay Area also brought him into contact with a younger generation of American poets, including Ron Loewinsohn, Ron Silliman, David Melnick, Pat Nolan, Alistair Johnson and more.

These universities include: Silliman University ( 1901 ), the oldest American established university in Asia ; Saint Paul University of Dumaguete City ( 1904 ), the first Paulinian school in the Philippines ; Negros Oriental State University ( 2004 ); and Foundation University ( 1949 ).

Title page, inaugural edition of the American Journal of Science, founded by Benjamin Silliman, 1818

Silliman reported, in his new American Journal of Science, that he had identified tungsten, tellurium, topaz and fluorite in the rocks.

* Randolph Silliman Bourne ( American writer and critic )

Grenier's ironic statement ( itself a speech act ), was, in the context of the essay in which it occurred, along with a questioning attitude to the referentiality of language evidenced even in the magazine's title, later claimed by Ron Silliman, in the introduction to his anthology In the American Tree, as an epochal moment — a rallying cry for a number of young U. S. poets who were increasingly dissatisfied with the poetry of the Black Mountain poets and Beat poets.

She influenced a number of the language poets and was included in the In the American Tree anthology of Language poetry ( edited by Ron Silliman ).

Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the important " Language "- oriented anthology, In the American Tree ( edited by Ron Silliman ).

Dana's sketch of Mount Shasta was engraved in 1849 for publication in the American Journal of Science and Arts ( which Silliman had founded in 1818 ), along with a lengthy article based on Dana's 1841 geological notes.

* Benjamin Silliman begins publishing the American Journal of Science, concentrating on geology ; by the 21st century it will be the longest-running scientific journal issued in the United States.

The city is best known for Silliman University, the country's first Protestant university and the first American private university in Asia.

* Ron Silliman discusses Donald Allen ’ s The New American Poetry from Silliman's Blog: June 11, 2007.

Robert Silliman Hillyer ( June 3, 1895-December 24, 1961 ) was an American poet.

Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is the first American private university in the country.

Silliman Hall is the oldest standing American structure in the Philippines.

Women started to be admitted in 1912, and in 1921, the Silliman Bible School ( later to become the Divinity School ) was established in cooperation with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, representing the Congregational Churches of the United States.

After its recognition as a university, Silliman continued to receive from the Presbyterian Board and the American Board ( now the United Church Board for World Ministries ) grants for land, buildings and equipment.

* Aldine Silliman Kieffer ( 1840 – 1904 ), American musician