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Merrill, Charles Amos

lawyer, editor, was born Sept. 23, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He attended the Concord High Dartmouth school; college for two years; and the Wesleyan university for two years, from which latter institution he graduated in 1864; graduated from the Columbia Law school in 1868, and a year later from the Harvard Law school.

He has been secretary of sergeant-atarms of the United States; secretary of Senator Patterson; examiner in division of referred claims of paymaster-general's office; and paymaster's clerk United States army; and editor of the Supplement to the Massachusetts Statutes. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of New England, and has a lucrative practice at Worcester, Mass.