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The Silliman family was a prominent family in Connecticut and New York (state). Pages in category "Silliman family" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the petroleum industry. His father Benjamin Silliman Sr., also a famous Yale chemist, developed the process of fractional distillation that enabled the economical production of kerosene .
Silliman was born in a tavern in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, to Mary (Fish) Silliman (widow of John Noyes) and General Gold Selleck Silliman. He was born in August 1779, several months after British forces took his father prisoner and his mother had fled their home in Fairfield, Connecticut , to escape 2,000 British troops who ...
Silliman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aldine Silliman Kieffer (1840–1904), American musician; Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), American chemist; Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885), American chemist; Benjamin D. Silliman (1805–1901), American lawyer and politician
Daniel Sillman (born 1989) is an American sports executive, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is the CEO of Relevent, [1] a live soccer events and media company best known for marketing the media rights for the UEFA Champions League in the United States, [2] English Football League (EFL) in the Americas, [3] LaLiga across North America, [4] and the Bundesliga in North, Central, and South ...
In 1683 Lydia married Daniel Grinnell Jr; they also had 13 children together. William the younger and his wife Judith had a daughter Rebecca Peabody, who married the Reverend Joseph Fish. Their daughter Mary Fish [ 2 ] married Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), and they were the parents of Benjamin Silliman , the first person to distill ...
William Burke Belknap [1] the younger (1885–1965) was the son of William Richardson Belknap and Alice Trumbull Silliman. He was an entrepreneur in the family of William Burke Belknap, the elder (1811–1884), son of Morris Burke Belknap of Brimfield, Massachusetts, who was engaged in the iron furnace industry and died in 1873. [2]
Silliman and Jones were exchanged in May 1780, with Silliman's son being exchanged as well. These events were accurately [citation needed] depicted in the 1994 TV film Mary Silliman's War by Heritage Films, based on the 1984 biography of Silliman's second wife by Joy and Richard Buel. Silliman died on July 21, 1790.