SILL, Edward Rowland, educator, born in Windsor, Connecticut, 29 April, 1841; died in Cleveland, Ohio, 27 February, 1887. He was graduated at Yale in 1861, and, owing to feeble health, resided on the Pacific coast till July, 1866, when he returned to the east, and. after studying theology at Harvard divinity school for some time, devoted himself to literary work in New York city. After teaching for three years in Medina county and at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, he accepted the office of principal of the high-school at Oakland, California, in 1871, and in 1874 was appointed professor of the English language and literature in the University of California, where he remained for eight years. He resigned his chair in 1882 to resume literary work, and returned to Cuyahoga Falls, where he remained until his death, which occurred in a hospital at Cleveland after he had undergone an operation. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says: "He has left, I think, no volume but the ' Booklet, ' as he used to call it, privately printed as a farewell to his friends in California ... It contains some of the most delicate, most finished, and most musical poetic work that the country has produced He was personally beloved as I believe few men of our day have been." The volume referred to is "The Hermitage, and other Poems" (New York, 1867).