Daniel Poor, an American missionary, born in Danvers, Mass., June 27, 1789, died in Ma-nepy, Ceylon, Feb. 3, 1855. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1811, and at the theological seminary at Andover in 1814. In October, 1815, he sailed for Ceylon in company with other missionaries, and reached Colombo in March, 1816. He went to Tillipally near Jaffna, studied the Tamil language, and in July, 1823, took charge of the mission seminary at Batticotta. In 1835 he went to Ma-tura to aid in opening a new mission, and 37 schools were soon organized mainly through his agency. He returned to Tillipally in 1841, and there labored till 1848, when he visited the United States. Returning to Ceylon in 1851, he settled at Manepy. He died suddenly of cholera. He published several tracts in the English and Tamil languages. - His son, Daniel W., was long the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J., and is now (1875) professor of ecclesiastical history in the Presbyterian theological seminary at San Francisco.