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Merritt, Anna Lea – Metcalf, Mason Jerome

Merritt, Anna Lea

artist, author, was born Sept. 13, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. Of her pictures Eve Overcome by Remorse has attracted the most attention. She published a memorial of her husband entitled Henry Merritt's Art Criticism and Romance, with Recollections and Twenty-three Etchings.

Merritt, Samuel A

state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1828, in Staunton, Va. He was county clerk in California in 1850; a member of the state assembly in 1851 and 1852; a member of the state senate in 1857-62, and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.

Merritt, Timothy

clergyman, journalist, was born in October, 1775, in Barkhamsted, Conn. He was a methodist clergyman and journalist, and the author of Christian Manual; Convert's Guide; Discussion Against Universal Salvation; Validity of Infant Baptism; and Lectures on Universal Salvation. He died May 2, 1845, in Lynn, Mass.

Merritt, Wesley

soldier, was born June 16, 1836, in New York city. For gallant and meritorious services during the battle of Gettysburg he was brevetted major.

Merton, Holmes Whittier

lecturer, author, was born April 5, 1860, in Lebanon, Ohio. He has delivered a thousand lectures on human government and education; and has discovered important laws in biology and physiology. Among his works are Descriptive Mentality; and The Harmonic Republic. In painting he has executed the Muscles of an Athlete; with many large paintings on anatomy and histology.

Mervin, Orange

congressman, was born in Litchfield, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1825 to 1829.

Mervine, William

naval officer, was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania. He entered the navy, and was made midshipman in 1809. He was placed on the retired list in 1861, promoted commodore in 1862 and rear-admiral in 1866. He died Sept. 15, 1868, in Utica, N. Y.

Merwin, Elias

lawyer, author, was born in 1825 in Connecticut. He was a Boston lawyer, professor of equity in Boston university from 1854, and the author of The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading. He died in 1891.

Merwin, J. B

journalist. As the editor of the American Journal of Education his power has been felt throughout the United States, for, with pen and voice, he is constantly pleading for large and better systems of education.

Meserve, Frank Pierce

merchant, was born Nov. 30, 1852, in Rochester, N. H. He attended the West Lebanon academy, Maine, and subsequently moved to Redlands, Cal., where he is a successful clothing merchant. For four years he was a member of the city council, and for two years was library trustee. In 1894 he was a candidate for the California state assembly. He is a prominent member of various fraternal orders, and takes an active part in public affairs.

Metcalf, Arunah

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813; and subsequently served four years in the assembly of New York from Otsego county.

METCALF, LORETTUS SUTTON, journalist, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Monmouth, Maine. In 1886 he founded The Forum, of which he was editor-in-chief for five years, when he moved to Florida and established in Jacksonville The Florida Citizen.

Metcalf, Mason Jerome

inventor, was born Oct. 16, 1807, in Fairfax, Maine.

His most important invention was a method of producing letter-stencils by means of dies, which he was the first to practice and bring into use. He died July 23, 1883, in Monmouth, Maine.