William Elliot Griffis
American protestant minister and Japanologist
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- Masters Theology New Brunswick Theological Seminary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. Early life Griffis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader. During the American Civil War, he served two months as a corporal in Company H of the 44th Pennsylvania Militia after Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. After the war, he attended Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating in 1869. At Rutgers, Griffis was an English and Latin language tutor for Kusakabe Tarō, a young samurai from the province of Echizen .
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