Selah Merrill

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Selah Merrill (1837-1909) was an American Congregationalist clergyman and United States Consul, born at Canton Centre, Conn. After studying at Yale and at the New Haven Theological Seminary, he was ordained in 1864. During the last year of the Civil War he was chaplain of the Forty-ninth United States colored infantry and in 1868 went to Germany, where he studied two years. In 1874-77 he was in Palestine as archæologist of the American Palestine Exploration Society and was United States Consul at Jerusalem in 1882-85, 1891-93, and 1898-1907. While there he made important explorations and excavations to discover the second wall of Jerusalem and determine the site of Calvary. He taught at Andover Theological Seminary in 1872 and 1879 and became curator of the Biblical Museum there. In 1907 he became American Consul at Georgetown, Guiana. His works include:

  • East of the Jordan (1881; second edition, 1883)
  • Galilee in the Time of Christ (1881)
  • Greek Inscriptions Collected in the Years 1875-77 in the Country East of the Jordan (1885)
  • The Site of Calvary (1885)
  • Ancient Jerusalem (1906)


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