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Meriwether, David – Merrick, Frederick

Meriwether, David

governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 1800, in Louisa county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Kentucky for one session in 1852; and was appointed in 1853 governor of the territory of New Mexico.

MERIWETHER, MRS. ELIZABETH [AVERY], author, was born in 1832 in Tennessee. She is a novelist of Memphis, Tenn.; and the author of The Master of Red Leaf; Black and White; The Ku Klux Klan; and My First and Last Love.

Meriwether, I. A

congressman, was born in Georgia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.

Meriwether, James

congressman, was born in Wilkes county, Ga. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1825 to 1827.

Meriwether, Lee

public official, author, was born Dec. 25, 1862, in Columbus, Miss. He is a special agent of the United States bureau of labor; and the author of A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp at Home; and Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean.

Merklin, Leon Charles

linguist, was born in 1740 in New Orleans, La.

He is known by several treatises on the North American Indian dialects, which he pretended to have learned in trading with the Indians. He died in 1797 in Paris, France.

Merrefield, Joseph

author, poet, was born Dec. 19, 1820, in Franklin, Ohio.

He has been secretary of the Maryland Historical society; president of the society for the Protection of Children, and an officer in many charitable institutions.

He is now treasurer of the Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimore. He is the author of two prose stories; and numerous noems.

Merriam, Charles

publisher, philanthropist, was born Nov. 21, 1806, in West Brookfield, Mass. He was active in benevolent works and contributed $5,000 and numerous books for the establishment of a public library in Springfield. He bequeathed $50,000 to missionary, Bible and other religious societies. He died July 9, 1887, in Springfield, Mass.

Merriam, Frank F

journalist, legislator, was born Dec. 22, 1865, in Hopkinton, Iowa. He is the editor and proprietor of the Hopkinton Leader in Iowa; and served with distinction as a member of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh general assemblies of the Iowa state legislature.

Merriam, George

publisher, was born Jan. 20, 1803, in Worcester, Mass.

In 1831 he removed to Springfield with his brother and established in 1832 the publishing house of G. and C. Merriam.

Their earliest publications were law books, editions of the Bible, and school books. He died June 22, 1880, in Springfield, Mass.

Merriam, George Spring

author, was born in 1843 in Maine. He is the author of A Living Faith; Life and Times of Samuel Bowles; The Way of Life; The Story of William and Lucy Smith; A Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End of Man; and Reminiscences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs.

Merrick, Edwin T

lawyer, jurist, was born July 9, 1809, in Wilbraham, Mass. He served as district judge of the Florida parishes and was twice chief justice of Louisiana. He died Jan. 12, 1897.

Merrick, Frederick

educator, college president, was born in 1810, in Wilbraham, Mass. In 1860 he was elected president of the Ohio Wesleyan university, resigning in 1875.