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Merriam, Augustus Chapman
educator, author, was born in 1843 in New York. He was a Greek scholar; adjunct professor of Greek at Columbia college; and the author of Law Code of Gortynia in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab; The Phoenicians of Homer; and Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus.
He died in 1895.
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, Clinton Hart
naturalist, author, was born in 1855 in New York.
He is a naturalist of note, chief of the United States biological survey; and the author of Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region; and Mammals of the Adirondacks. ✓MERRIAM, CLINTON L., merchant, banker, congressman, was born March 25, 1824, in Leyden, N. Y. He was elected from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.
Merriam, Florence Augusta
author, was born in 1863 in New York.
She is a Washington writer; and the author of A-Birding on a Bronco; My Summer in a Mormon Village; and Birds Through an Opera Glass.
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.
Merriam, William Rush
governor, was born July 26, 1849, at Wadham's Mills, N. Y. When eleven years of age he moved with his parents to Minnesota, and has since resided in St. Paul, except when at college in Racine, Wis.
For awhile he was clerk in the First National bank; was appointed cashier of the Merchant's National bank in 1873; was elected its vicepresident in 1881; and since 1882 has been president of that institution. In 1882 he was elected to the Minnesota state legislature; was again elected in 1886, and was chosen speaker.
In 1888 he was elected governor of Minnesota, and received the re-election two years later. He is a liberal contributor to charitable enterprises; has been prominently interested in agricultural matters; has served as vice-president and president of the State Agricultural association.
Merrick, Carolina Elizabeth
reformer, was born Nov. 24, 1825, in Cottage Hall, La. She was educated by private tutors, and received instruction from the professors in the college at Jackson, La. She has been president of the Foreign Missionary society of the church; methodist and other societies.
She formed the first suffrage society in the state of Louisiana, and was elected its president. For ten years she has been the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Louisiana; and for the same length of time her husband was chief justice of Louisiana.
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.
Merrick, James Lyman
missionary, author, poet, was born Oct. 11, 1803, in Monson, Mass. During 1834-45 he was a missionary in Persia; and subsequently was pastor of the congregational church of Amherst. He was the author of Pilgrim's Harp, a volume of poems; Life and Religion of Mohammed; and a Genealogy of the Merrick Family. He died June 18, 1866, in Amherst, Mass.
Merrick, Pliny
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 2, 1794, in Brookfield, Mass. In 1827 he was a representative in the legislature for Worcester; in 1843 became judge of the court of common pleas; and in 1844 of the municipal court. He was a state senator in 1850; and during 1853-64 was judge of the Massachusetts supreme court. He died Feb. 1, 1867, in Boston, Mass.
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.
Merrill, Ayres Phillips
physician, author, was born April 17, 1793, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a physician of Memphis, and subsequently of New York city; and the author of Lectures on Fevers. He died Nov. 3, 1873, in New York.
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.
Merrill, Daniel
clergyman, author, was born March 18, 1765, in Rowley, Md. After serving three years in the revolutionary army he entered Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1789. He then studied theology and was licensed to preach in 1791. He was a founder and efficient friend of Waterville college, serving as trustee for twelve years after its organization. He published Eight Letters on Open Communion; Letters Occasioned by the Rev. Samuel Worcester's Two Discourses; Mode and Subjects of Baptism Examined, with a Miniature History of Baptism; and Balaam Disappointed. He died June 3, 1833, in Sedgwick, Maine.
Merrill, Frank Thayer
artist, was born in 1848, in Boston, Mass. He has attained success as an artist; among his best known works are: Lalla Rookh; Prince and the Pauper; Courtship of Miles Standish; My Days and Nights on the Battlefield; The Man Without a Country; and Rip Van Winkle.
Merrill, George Perkins
educator, lecturer, author, was born May 31, 1854, in Auburn, Maine. He is a geologist, professor in Columbian university, Washington, from 1893; and the author of Stones for Building and Decoration; and Handbook of the Geological Department, Smithsonian Institution.
Merrill, George W
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born June 26, 1837, in Turner, Maine. He entered the union army, and was commissioned first lieutenant of company F, sixtieth regiment of Indiana volunteers; and subsequently to major of his regiment. He removed to Nevada, and engaged in the practice of his profession. He was district attorney for about twelve years; and in 1880 was elected a representative in the state legislature, and at the session of 1881 was elected speaker. In 1883 he was appointed land attorney of the state; and in 1885 was appointed minister resident of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands.
Merrill, Lewis
soldier, was born Oct. 28, 1834, in New Berlin, Pa. He organized a regiment of Missouri volunteer cavalry, of which he was appointed colonel, and the regiment was called Merrill's Horse.
Merrill, Moody
lawyer, state senator, was born June 27, 1836, in Campton, N. H. In 1868 he was elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives; in 1873-74 was a member of the senate; and after retiring from political life became president of the Highland Street railway of Boston.