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Merrick, Samuel Vaughan

manufacturer, was born May 4, 1801, in Hallowell, Maine. He studied engineering, and about 1835 established at Philadelphia the Southwark iron foundry, which became the finest work of the kind in this country. He died Aug. 18, 1870, in Philadelphia.

WILLIAM MERRICK, MERRICK, WILLIAM DUHURST, United States senator, was born Oct. 25, 1793, in Annapolis, Md. He served in the United States senate from 1838 to 1845.

He was the author of the cheap postage scheme in congress. He died Feb. 5, 1857, in Washington, D. C.

MERRICK, WILLIAM MATTHEWS, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1818, in Charles county, Md. In 1854 he was appointed associate judge of the United States circuit court of the District of Columbia; when this court was abolished, in 1863, he retired to Maryland to the practice of his profession. In 1866 and 1867 he was senior professor of law in Columbian college; and was elected to the Maryland legislature in 1870. He was a representative to the forty-second congress as a democrat. In 1885 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.

He died Feb. 4, 1889, in Washington, D. C.