J._Warren_Merrill

J. Warren Merrill

J. Warren Merrill

American politician

Joseph Warren Merrill (December 13, 1819 – November 12, 1889) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as the Chair of the Colby College Board of Trustees from 1885 until his death in 1889.[3]

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Personal life

J. Warren Merrill was born on December 13, 1819, in South Hampton, New Hampshire, to Nathan and Sally (Page) Merrill.[3] He married Hannah Brown Wattson in 1848, with whom he had two daughters and four sons.[4] He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1889.[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1890), History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol. I, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 230
  2. [2]
    Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1890), History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol. I, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 232
  3. [3]
    "Mayflower Hill, A History of Colby College." Appendix C. Earl H. Smith. University Press of New England. 2006.
  4. [4]
    Marquis, Albert Nelson (1925). The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. p. 699. ISBN 9780806303628.
  5. [5]
    White, James Terry (1906). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. p. 166.
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