Merrill, Orsamus C – Metcalf, Ralph
Merrill, Orsamus C
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1776 in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1817 to 1820. He also held the positions of county attorney for two years; state councilor for four years; state senator for one year; register of probate for two years; and judge of probate for six years. He died April 11, 1865, in Bennington.
Merrill, Samuel
merchant, soldier, legislator, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1822, in Turner, Maine. In 1854 he was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature. He went to Iowa in 1856; and in 1860 was elected to the legislature of that state. He was subsequently elected governor of Iowa, serving in that capacity from 1868 to 1872.
Merrill, Selah
clergyman, author, was born May 2, 1837, in Canton, Conn.
He is a congregational clergyman and archæologist, United States consul at Jerusalem in 1882-86. He is the author of East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time of Christ; Greek Inscriptions Collected in 1875-77 East of the Jordan; and The Site of Calvary.
Merrill, Sherburn Sanborn
railroad manager, was born July 28, 1818, in Alexandria, N. H. In 1865 he became general manager of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Milwaukee.
Merrill, Stephen Mason
bishop, author, was born Sept. 16, 1825, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He is a methodist bishop in Ohio; and the author of Christian Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; The Second Coming of Christ; Aspects of Christian Experience; Digest of Methodist Law; Outlines of Thought on Probation; and Mary of Nazareth and Her Family.
Merrill, William Bradford
journalist, was born Feb. 27, 1861, in Salisbury, N. H. In 1891 he became managing editor of The New York Press, which position he still holds.
Merrill, William Emory
military engineer, author, was born Oct. 11, 1837, in Wisconsin. He is a military engineer in the United States army; and the author of Iron Truss Bridges; and Improvement of Tidal Rivers.
Merriman, Edward Munroe
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1843, in Auburn, N. Y. In 1867 he graduated from the United States Military academy of West Point; and during 1867- 71 was lieutenant in the first regiment United States artillery. He is a successful lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.; and for four successive terms has been judge of the county court of Arkansas.
Merriman, Mansfield
civil engineer, educator, author, was born March 27, 1848, in Southington, Conn. He is a civil engineer, professor at Lehigh university since 1881; and the author of Continuous Bridges; Elements of the Method of Least Squares; The Figure of the Earth; Mechanics of Materials; Treatise on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining Walls and Masonry Dams; Introduction to Geodetic Surveying; and Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges.
Merriman, Truman Adams
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1839, in Auburn, N. Y. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain in the ninety-second New York infantry, and was mustered out of service in 1864 as lieutenant-colonel. In 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress, and was reelected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Merrimon, Augustus Summer- Field
jurist, legislator, United States senator, was born Sept. 15, 1830, in North Carolina. He was a member of the legislature of North Carolina in 1860, and was elected a judge of the superior court in 1866, but in 1867 resigned rather than obey a military order. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879.
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.
Mesick, William S
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1856, in Newark, N. Y. Since 1881 he has been in active practice of the law; and held the office of prosecuting attorney of Antrim county, Mich., for one term. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. MESSENGER, LILLIAN ROZELL, poet, was born in 1853 in Kentucky. In 1886 she published a volume of prose and verse entitled Fragments from an Old Inn; and the following year appeared The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems; and The Southern Cross is her latest volume. These works contain many rare gems of thought that entitle her to a laurel wreath of fame as a national poet.
Messer, Asa
educator, college president, was born in 1769 in Methuen, Mass. After six years of service he was advanced in 1796 to the professorship of learned languages in the Brown university. In 1799 he was transferred to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy, and on the resignation of Jonathan Maxcy in 1802 was appointed president of the college. He died Oct. 11, 1836, in Providence, R. I.
MESSINGER, ROBERT HINCKLEY, HINCKLEY, poet, was born in 1811 in Boston, Mass.
His poems were written between 1827 and 1832, and appeared in the New York American. The principal one, Give Me the Old, was published in that journal in 1838.
He died Oct. 1, 1874, in Stamford, Conn.
Messler, Abraham
clergyman, was born Nov. 15, 1800, in Whitehouse, N. J. He was pastor of the reformed Dutch churches in Pompton Plains and in Montville from 1829 till 1832, and became subsequently pastor of the churches of this denomination in Raritan and Somerville, N. J. His publications include Fruits of Early Piety; St. Paul's Gratitude to Onesiphorus; and Sermon on the Death of President Lincoln. He died June 12, 1882, in Somerville, N. J.
Messmer, Sebastian Sebbard
clergyman, bishop, was born Aug. 29, 1847, in Switzerland. For eight years he was professor of theology in South Orange, N.
J., and for two years professor of canon law in the Catholic university of Washington, D. C. Since 1892 he has been bishop of the diocese of Green Bay, Wis.
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.
Metcalf, Ralph
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 21, 1798, in Charlestown, N. H. He began the practice of law at Newport, N. H., in 1826, and was secretary of state for several years from 1830. He was register of probate for Sullivan county in 1845, and was chairman of the committee for compiling the laws of the state in 1852. He was governor of New Hampshire in 1855 and 1856. He died Aug. 26, 1858, in Claremont, N. H.