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 MERRILL

MERRILL

judge of the U.S. circuit court for the District of Columbia from 1854 until 1863, when the court was abolished. He tlien resumed practice in Maryland ; was senior professor of law in Columbian university at Georgetown, D.C., 1866- 67. and was a delegate to the Maryland constitu- tional convention in 1867, and a Democratic rep- resentative in the Maryland legislature in 1870. He was a representative from the fifth Maryland district in the 42d congress, 1871-73, and was the defeated candidate for the 43d congress in 1872. In congress he opposed the act known as the " salary grab." and when it passed refused to accept his back pay. He was associate judge of the su- preme court of the District of Columbia, 1885-89, and also served as professor of law in George- town university. He received the degree LL.D. from Georgetown university in 1875. He mar- ried a daughter of the Hon. C. A. Wickliflfe. He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 1889.

MERRILL, Daniel, clergyman, was born in Rowle}', Mtiss., March 18, 1765; son of Thomas and Sarali Merrill. In January, 1781, he enlisted in the Revolutionary army and served till the close of the war. He was graduated at Dart- mouth, A.B., 1789, A.M.. 1792; studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Spring of Newburyport, M.lss., and in 1791 began to preach in Sedgwick, Maine. He was marrieJ. in 1791, to Joanna Colby* of Sanderson, N.H., and secondly, Oct. 14, 1794, to Susanjja Gale, of Salisbury, N.H. He was or- dained pastor of the newly organized Congrega- tional church in Sedgwick in 1793 ; and in 1805 his church was tlie largest in membership of any in Maine. He became a convert to the Baptist faith, and in February, 1805, with a majority of his congregation, he was received into the Baptist churcli, and he was ordained pastor of the newly organize! church at Sedgwick, where he con- tinued to labor until his death, except the years 1814-21, when he was pastor at Nottingham West, N.H. He was one of the founders of Wa- terville college, and served as a trustee, 1821-33. He was a member of the state legislature and the governor's council. He published : Eight Letters on Open Communion (1805); Letters Oc- casioned by 'the Rev. Samuel Worcester's Tioo Discourses (1807); Mode and Subjects of Baptism Examined, with a Miniature History of Baptism (1812) . He died in Sedgwick, Maine, June 3, 1833.

MERRILL, Elmer Truesdell, educator, was born in Millville, Mass., Jan. 1, 1800; son of Charles Atwood and Mary Sophia (Truesdell) Merrill ; grandson of John and Deborah (Atwood) Merrill and of Erastas Ozias and Mary (Dwight) Truesdell, and a descendant of Nathaniel Merrill, 1610-1655, one of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass., incorporated in 1635. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, B.A., 1881, M.A.,

1889, and from the Berkeley Divinity school in 1894 ; was a graduate student at Wesleyan, 1881- 82, Yale, 1885-86, and the University of Berlin, 1886-87, and studied elsewhere in Europe. He taught in the Massachusetts State Normal school. Westfield, 1882-83 ; was tutor at Wesleyan, 1883- 86 ; professor of Latin at the University of South California, 1887-88, and was elected Rich pro- fessor of Latin at Wesleyan in 1888. He was married, June 19, 1890, to Edith Valentine, of Los Angeles, Cal. He was admitted to the diaconate in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1894, and was ordained priest in 1895. He was elected a member of the mmaging committee of the American School of Chissical Studies in Rome in 1895, was professor in the school, 1898-99. and was elected acting chairman and secretary of the committee in 1899, and chairman in 1900. He became a member of the American Philologi- cal association in 1883, and of the ArchjBological Institute of America in 1896. He published an edition of the Poems of Catullus, with notes (1893), and Fragments of Roman Satire (1896), besides' contributions to philological and archae- ological periodicals.

MERRILL, Frank Thayer, illustrator, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 14, 1848 ; son of George William and Sarah (Alden) Merrill ; grandson of James Martin and Dolly (Ulmer) Merrill, and of Maj. Jesse and Is^ibel B. (Francis) Alden, and a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower. He attended the public schools of Boston, the Lowell Institute free drawing school, 1864-75, and entered the s(hool of drawing and painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1875. He established a studio in Boston in 1870, and devoted himself to illustrating, besides painting in water-color and oil. He was married, in 1881, to Jessie S., daughter of Charles A. Aldrich, of Boston. In 1884 he painted and illustrated in Paris and travelled through Switzerland, Bel- gium, Holland and France on a sketching trip. The works he illustrated include : Longfellow's ish ; " several of Louisa Alcott's books ; Mark Twain's " The Prince and the Pauper," with J. J. Harley (1881); Moore's *• Lalla Rookh " (1884); Thackeray's "Mahogany Tree" (1887); Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country ;'• Irving's "Rip Van Winkle:" Mrs. Austin's " Standish of Standish," and many standard editions of English classics. He exhibited his etchings at the Salmagundi club in New York. He is the author of : Tlirough the Heart of Paris (1885).
 * ' John Endicott " and "Courtship of Miles Stand-

MERRILL, Frederick James Hamilton, geol- ogist, was born in New York city, April 30, 1861 ; son of Maj. Hamilton Wilcox and Louisa (Kauffman) Merrill ; grandson of Asa and Penel-