Samuel Wells Williams

U.s. linguist, missionary, diplomat, naturalist and sinologist (1812–1884).

Born September 22nd, 1812 in Utica.

Died February 16th, 1884 at 71 years old in New Haven.

Occupations
botanical collector, historian, japanologist, lexicographer, linguist, missionary, naturalist, scientific collector, sinologist, writer

When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid