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(VI) Samuel, son of Ezekiel (2) Merrill, was born at Hebron, Maine, 1808, and died in 1851. He married Sarah Jane, daughter of Stephen and Olive Atwood, of . West Minot. She was born February 13, 1811, and after
nearly forty years of widowhood died March 27, 1889, at the home of her son in Auburn, where she had spent the latter part of her life. Mrs. Merrill was a woman of strong charac- ter, self-reliant, practical, industrious and of great executive ability. Her thoughtfulness, combined with her pleasant and amiable man- ner, made her a most valuable adjunct in the sick-room where she was often found. In re- ligious belief she was a thorough Universalist, and was ever loyal to her faith in the abiding love of God. Children of Samuel and Sarah Jane (Atwood) Merrill who attained maturity and married were: I. Eliza J., married W. G. Millett, of West Minot, Maine, and died at the age of thirty-two, leaving one son, Charles R. Millett, who now resides at West Minot. 2. Olive B., married Hiram C. Bar- rows, and died at the age of thirty-eight, leav- ing one son, Charles F. Barrows, who resides in Auburn, Maine, and is a merchant. 3. Samuel Fessenden, whose sketch follows.
(VII) Samuel Fessenden, only son of Sam- uel and Sarah Jane (Atwood) Merrill, was born at West Minot, Maine, March 1, 1846. His father died when he was five years of age, and Samuel F. availed himself of every chance to earn money during the intervals of attending school. Mr. Merrill's first connec- tion with shoe manufacturing, a business that was destined to be his life work, was as an errand boy for Mr. Ara Cushman. More im- portant tasks were early confided to the boy by Mr. Cushman, and his performance of them so pleased his employer that he in time looked upon him as a valuable assistant. When Mr. Cushman transferred his shoe business to Auburn, Mr. Merrill soon followed to aid in the development of this great industry. No young man ever more thoroughly mastered and observed the fundamental laws of trade than did Mr. Merrill, who made himself in- valuable to the firm to which he was admitted as partner in 1868, increasing its prosperity by his strict application to business. He was the Boston salesman for ten years, luring which period he acquired an intimate knowl- edge of the needs of the market and of the representative men in the shoe trade. This experience demonstrated his ability to master every situation, and when the Ara Cushman Company was incorporated he was selected to act as its treasurer. He is a keen judge of men, an expert in directing them, and an ac- curate interpreter of the demands of the mar- ket. Mr. Merrill was one of the incorporators of the Auburn Trust Company, and upon its organization was made president. He is also
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president of the Auburn Library Association and of the Auburn Home for Aged Women. He is a valued member of the Elm Street Uni- versalist Church, a Republican in politics, a member of the Auburn Board of Trade, and a member of Tranquil Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Auburn, and of Lewiston Comman- dery, K. T. He is connected with many phil- anthropic institutions and a liberal contributor to all. Mr. Merrill married, December 29, 1870, Delia B., daughter of William R. and Ardelia (Prince) Hersey, of Lincoln, Maine, Mrs. Hersey was a sister of Hon. Job Prince, of Turner, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill have one daughter, Grace Fessenden, born May 7, 1872, married William F. Garcelon, of Newton, Massachusetts; their children : Fessenden Merrill and Grace, living, and Lucy, who died aged about one year.
(For preceding generation see Nathaniel Merrill I.) (II) Deacon John, eldest MERRILL child of Nathaniel and Su- sanna (Wolterton) (Jordan) Merrill, was born 1635, in Newbury, and set- tled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1656. He was a farmer, a tanner and currier by trade, and had a lot in Hartford in 1657, and was made freeman there in 1658. He was a dea- con in the church and a man of importance in the community. He received much of the estate of Daniel Wolterton, after whom he named one of his sons. John Merrill died in Hartford, July 18, 1712, at which time his eight sons were living. He was married in 1663 to Sarah, daughter of John and Mar- garet Watson, of Hartford, and their children were: Sarah, Nathaniel, John, Abraham, Daniel Wolterton, Susanna, Abel, Isaac and Jacob.
(III) Jacob, youngest child of Deacon John and Sarah ( Watson) Merrill, was born March 27, 1686, in Hartford, and probably passed his life there. Further record of him does not appear.
(IV) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Merrill, was a resident of Cumberland, Maine, but no further record of him is now discoverable.
(V) Josiah, son of Jacob (2) Merrill, was born October 22, 1765, in Cumberland, and was baptized May 10, 1767, in North Yar- mouth church. He purchased fifty acres of land in North Yarmouth for forty pounds, which was located on what is known as the Merrill Road, about half a mile from the Free- port line. He built a house on this land, into which he brought his bride immediately after marriage. In 1805, he built a one-story frame
house on the east end of his land, where he had a large orchard. He married, October 7, 1790, Eunice Merrill, of Falmouth, who was born April 21, 1772. The farm on which he resided was in what is now Pownal, and here their children were reared. No public record of their names appears, but a family record of one of their sons has been preserved and this makes it possible to continue the line. Mr. Merrill was a quiet prudent man and was re- garded by his fellows as an excellent citizen. His wife was a woman of superior intellect, an independent woman with high ideals; they were associated with the Freeport Congrega- tional church until 1811, when they affiliated with the church at Pownal. The wife died February 25, 1837, at the age of sixty-five years, and was survived more than nine years by her husband, who died July 7, 1846, in his eighty-first year.
(VI) Moses, son of Josiah and Eunice (Merrill) Merrill, was born April 12, 1796, in Pownal, and died October 23, 1877, in Free- port, Maine, where he was a farmer and en- gaged to some extent in the manufacture of - brick in the early days. His farm lay partly in each town. He was many years deacon of the Congregational church at Pownal Center, and a respected citizen ; a Whig and Republi- can in politics. He married Almira Prince, born December 1, 1793, in Yarmouth, died September 3, 1882, in Freeport. Their chil- dren were: Caroline, Harriett, Louisa, Al- mira, Horace Prince and Harriett Almira.
(VII) Horace Prince, only son of Moses and Almira (Prince) Merrill, was born July 20, 1831, in Freeport, where he grew up. At the age of eighteen years he went to sea on the bark "Lillius," and became ship's car- penter. The next year he went on the bark "General Taylor," and in 1851 went on the ship "Samuel Fayles." In 1856 he shipped on the bark "Palestine," and in 1862 on the ship "Alice Ball." Most of these vessels were em- ployed in the coasting trade, and in 1873 he was in command of the schooner "Roxanna Burleigh." He was also on the ship "Old England" in 1848. On retiring from the sea, he engaged at farming in Pownal, Maine, where he now resides. During the civil war he was a member of Company B, Twenty-fifth Maine Infantry, which organization was chiefly occupied in guarding the national cap- itol. He is past commander of Haskell Post, G. A. R., of Yarmouth, and is a member of Granite Grange, P. of H., at Pownal. Mr. Merrill is a Congregationalist in religion and a steadfast Republican in political principle.
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He married (first) January 3, 1854, Delia A. P. Waite, of Freeport, daughter of Captain Charles and Olive ( Pettengill) Waite. Their children are: George Waite, William Rich- ards, Flora Prince, Edwin S., Lena Ives and Harry Pettengill. Mr. Merrill married (sec- ond) April II, 1880, Elmira Henderson, who bore him three children: Edith Adel, Lewis Perley and Morris Ellsworth.
(VIII) Edwin Sweetzer, third son of Hor- ace P. and Delia A. P. (Waite) Merrill, was born February 16, 1863, at Freeport, and be- gan his education in the public schools of that town, passing through high school, and grad- uating in 1883. He was subsequently a stud- ent of Maine Wesleyan Seminary, graduating 1885, Williams College, 1884, and Columbia University Law School, at Washington, D. C., receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1892. During his student days he engaged in teach- ing, and was employed in the national post- office department at Washington, while pur- suing his law course, the latter occupying his evenings. He entered the office of Judge T. N. Little, of Middletown, New York, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, in 1894. For seven years he practiced at Middletown and removed to New York City in 1901; at that time he became a partner of Thomas Watts, and has so continued in general practice under the title of Watts & Merrill. He is a member of the New York County Lawyers Associa- tion, and secretary of committee on gratuity fund; of the Royal Arcanum; Ancient Order of United Workmen, and attorney for the grand lodge of New York; Modern Wood- men of America; and Mitchell Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Harlem. He is a member of the Congregational church of Middletown, the Maine Society in New York, and a Democrat in political principles. In 1907 he was nomi- nated by the Independence League for the office of justice of the city court, and his nom- ination was endorsed by the Republicans, but the fusion ticket of that year was defeated. His home is in Bronx Borough, where he pur- chased a house in 1908. He married (first) September 5, 1895, Stella Parsons and has a daughter, Vera Florence. He married (sec- ond) June 4, 1908, Julia (Boyd) Bacon, widow of William Bacon, and daughter of George W. and Mary (Iric) Boyd.
(For preceding generation see Nathaniel Merrill I.)
(II) Sergeant Daniel, fourth MERRILL son of Nathaniel and Susan- nah (Wolterton) (Jordan) Merrill, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts,
August 20, 1642, and lived there mostly, but spent his later life with his son John in Haver- hill, Massachusetts. He took the oath of fidel- ity and allegiance in 1668, admitted to the church in Newbury in 1681, and made a free- man in 1682. He died June 27, 1717, and his will was dated July 12 of that year. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John and Jane Clough, of Watertown, Massachusetts, who died March 18, 1705. He married (second) Sarah Mor- rill, the double widow of Philip Rowell and Onesiphorus Page. Children: Daniel, John, Sarah, Ruth, Moses, Martha and Stephen.
(III) Deacon John, second son of Daniel and Sarah (Clough) Merrill, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1674, a house- smith, a soldier in 1710, and admitted to the church in 1718. He died June 7, 1756; his will was made February 28, 1753. He mar- ried Mary Allen, of Salisbury. They had : Abel, John, Mary, Daniel, Thomas, Ruth, Hannah and Gideon.
(IV) Abel, first son of Deacon John and Mary (Allen) Merrill, was born in Salisbury, and removed to Wells, Maine, about 1725, and subsequently to Cape Arundel, now Kenne- bunkport. He was killed by a black fish while out fishing in a small boat. He married Mary Harding, and had one son, who will be de- scribed in the next paragraph.
(V) Gideon, only son and child of Abel and Mary (Harding) Merrill, was born in Arundel, Maine, and married Dorothy Wilder. They had several children, one of whom was named Jacob.
(VI) The Jacob Merrill with whom we have to do might have been and probably was the eldest child of Gideon and Dorothy (Wilder) Merrill. He lived in North Yar- mouth, Cumberland and Bowdoin. He was in the war for independence, credited from Arun- del, Captain Tobias Lord's company. He married Sarah Huff. Children : Josiah, Eunice, Joanna, Jacob, William, Abigail, Ben- jamin, Nathan N. and John.
(VII) Nathan Noyes, fifth son of Jacob and Sarah (Huff) Merrill, was born Novem- ber 28, 1784, in Bowdoin, Massachusetts. His education was acquired in the common schools of that place, and he was for many years a farmer, later moving to Lewiston, Maine, then an unbroken wilderness on the banks of the Androscoggin. He married a Miss Jack- son, by whom he had the following children : Isaiah, Freeman H., Elias, Mary, Israel, John H. and Amos.
(VIII) Isaiah, eldest son of Nathan and (Jackson) Merrill, was born about
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1832. He attended the common schools of Bowdoin and Lewiston, learning the painter's trade, which he followed the most of his life. With his father he was an early settler in that city, and as a boy he cut wood where the city hall now stands. When he became a voter the Republican party was about being formed, and he became one of its early adherents and stuck to the party until he died. He married Electa M. Luce, who survived her first born, the subject of the next sketch, only six months. He married (second) Addie Hans- com, by whom he had two children: Fred- erick M. and Frank H., both deceased; re- sided in Boston; married (third) Cora Creamer, who is still living; Mr. Merrill died August 13, 1895.
(IX) John H., only child of Isaiah and Electa M. (Luce) Merrill, was born in Lew- iston, Maine, August 2, 1865. He acquired a rudimentary education in his native city. Dur- ing his school days he sold newspapers and worked during vacations to obtain money to continue his schooling. At the age of sixteen he entered the poor boys' college, a newspaper office, where he worked at the case until 1890, when he bought out a printing establishment. In 1891 he sold a half interest to Hon. John R. Webber, ex-mayor of Auburn. The follow- ing year the business demanded larger quar- ters and they removed to their present com- modious building, and now employ twenty people. They do job printing, book binding, publish city and county directories for the greater part of Maine. Mr. Merrill stands high in Masonry. He was raised to the Mas- ter's degree at Auburn, has taken the capitular degree, accorded the council degree, received the order of the temple, enrolled in the Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, admitted to the Scottish rite, and is a thirty-second. He is also a prominent member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, and the Improved Order of Red Men.
(For first generation see Nathaniel Merrill I.)
(II) Abel, son of Nathaniel MERRILL and Susannah (Wolterton) (Jordan) Merrill, was born February 20, 1644, in Newbury, Massachu- setts, and died there October 28, 1689. He was a mariner, and is said to have brought the first vessel over the Merrimac bar. He was married February 10, 1671, to Priscilla Chase, born in Newbury, March 4, 1649, daughter of Aquila and Anne (Wheeler) Chase. Anne Wheeler was the daughter of John Wheeler,
of Hampton, New Hampshire, who was born in Salisbury, England, and moved to New- bury, where he was granted land in 1646. Their children were: Abel, Susannah, Nathan, Thomas, Joseph, Nathaniel, Priscilla and James.
(III) Nathaniel (2), sixth son of Abel and Priscilla (Chase) Merrill, was born February 6, 1684, in Newbury, and passed his life there, dying February 22, 1743. He was married July 28, 1709, to Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Martha Bartlett Stephens. She was born April 30, 1682, probably, and died February 3, 1736.
(IV) Roger, eldest child of Nathaniel (2) and Hannah (Stephens) Merrill, and only one of their children to attain maturity, was born March 10, 1712, in Newbury, and died there May 12, 1791. He was married (first) March 10, 1730, to Mary, daughter of Ezekiel and Ruth (Emery) Hale. She was born July 13, 1714, and died December 21, 1773, aged sixty years, and he was married (second) October 3, 1774, at Amesbury, to Sarah, widow of Rev. William Johnson, of West Newbury. She was born 1707, and survived him more than nine years, dying March 16, 1801. His fifteen children were: Nathaniel, Hannah, Mary (died young), Edna, Mary, Elizabeth (died young), Priscilla (died young), Roger (died young), Roger (died young), Priscilla, Ezekiel, John, Joseph, Roger and Elizabeth.
(V) Nathaniel (3), eldest child of Roger and Mary (Hale) Merrill, was born April 13, 1732, in West Newbury. He owned land in Nottingham West, now Hudson, New Hamp- shire, where he resided most of his life. He was married November 17, 1755, to Mary, fifth daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Sargent, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Their children were: Nathaniel (died young), Dorothy, Roger, Thomas, Mary, Betsy Bradstreet and Ezekiel.
(VI) Roger (2), second son of Nathaniel (3) and Mary (Sargent) Merrill, was born February 1, 1761, in West Newbury, and was a child when his parents removed to Notting- ham West. There he enlisted for several pe- riods of service during the revolutionary war, in 1778-79, covering a period of seventeen months, all together. He served in Colonel Moony's New Hampshire regiment for sev- eral months in Rhode Island, was in a Massa- chusetts company commanded by Captain Em- erson, and was three months at West Point in Captain Solomon Kimball's command, as a teamster. He was a stone mason by occupa- tion, and was skillful at his trade. A man of
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very strong personality, he was self-reliant and independent in action, very firm in holding his opinions, but was much respected as a man and a good citizen and was noted for his kindness and chivalry toward his wife and daughters. His sons thought him a hard man, because of his stern adherance to his Puri- tanical ideas. He was a pioneer settler in Durham, Maine, where he died, June 15, 1852, at the age of ninety-one years, four months and fifteen days. He resided in Durham until 1802, and was subsequently, for a time, a resi- dent of Portland and Litchfield, Maine, but re- turned to Durham in his last days. He was married February 2, 1785, in New Gloucester, Maine, to Dorothy, daughter of Hon. John (4) Cushing, of Royalsborough and Free- port, Maine (see Cushing X). She was born May 2, 1769, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died December 28, 1863, in Litchfield. Their children were: Orlando, Dorothy, John, Jona- than, Joel, Elizabeth, Edward, Caleb, William, Jesse, Mary Sargent, Sarah, and an infant who died unnamed.
(VII) Edward, fourth son of Roger (2) and Dorothy (Cushing) Merrill, was born July 14, 1800, in Durham, and was two years of age when the family moved to Portland. At the age of eleven years he ran away and went to sea and continued upon the ocean about twenty-five years. He never returned to his native place until he had become a captain of a vessel, and was then thirty-seven years of age. His educational opportunities were necessarily limited, but he was a man of great ability and executive force and made a success of life. After retiring from the sea, he settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he became engaged in the manufacture of oil and candles, and built Merrill's wharf, one of the finest of that port. Captain Mer- rill was a man of artistic temperament and a great lover of flowers and nature in all its forms. He did some excellent painting and had a farm on an island in New Bedford harbor, where he passed much time with his friends and indulged his love of nature. He had property interests in California, and was enabled to gratify his tastes and live in in- dependence. He was extremely independent of character ; was a wide and careful reader, and became very well informed on many topics. He was an attendant of the Unitarian church, and was a Democrat in politics, tak- ing considerable interest in the welfare of his party, and served as delegate in the state and national conventions. He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellows and was
called upon to fill various town offices, after settling in New Bedford. He was married October 5, 1827, to Mary Converse, daughter of Dr. John and Sally ( Hanson) Converse, of Durham, Maine (see Converse VII). They were the parents of six children : I. John Con- verse, married Matty H., daughter of George F. Barker, of New Bedford, and resides in Los Angeles, California. 2. Mary Converse, wife of James H. Myrick, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. 3. Edward B., receives fur- ther mention below. 4. George Barney, grad- uated from Harvard College in 1859, married Mary A. Bryant, and resides in San Francisco, California. 5. Charles Roger, died in New Bedford, leaving no issue. 6. Frank Hanson, died in 1906, in Oakland, California, leaving no issue.
(VIII) Edward Bagley, second son of Ed- ward and Mary (Converse) Merrill, was born January 25, 1835, in New Bedford, and re- ceived good educational advantages. For some time, he was a student at Norwich University, Vermont, a military school under the charge of Colonel Alden Partridge, a former superin- tendent of West Point. He fitted for college at Phillips Exter Academy, and was gradu- ated from Bowdoin College with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1857. This institution sub- sequently conferred upon him the degree of master of arts. Having decided to take up the practice of law, he spent eight months of study in the office of Hon. William W. Crapo, in New Bedford, and subsequently attended the Cambridge Law School. Early in 1860 he removed to New York city and spent three months in the office of Stanley & Langdell, and was admitted to the bar of New York city in May of that year. Since that time he has been engaged in the general practice of law, giving preference to will cases, and those involving corporation law. He has been em- ployed in some very important cases, and ar- gued before the United States supreme court a case involving the "property" in a stock exchange seat, the leading case of the kind now quoted in the law books. Mr. Merrill has a decided literary taste, has given considerable time to genealogical research, and has been a contributor on various topics to papers and magazines. Before the American Social Science Association, in 1882, he gave an ad- dress on "County Jails and Reformatory In- stitutions." Another popular address given by him before the State Bar Association was en- titled, "Hints Upon Professional Ethics." He also gave a feeling "Tribute to the Life of Public Services and George W. Curtis," be-
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fore the American Social Science Association, at Saratoga, New York. He is a member of the board of managers of the New York State Colonization Society, of the executive com- mittee of the Prison Association and board of management of the Burnham Industrial Farm. Mr. Merrill is a member of the University Club and the Good Government Club. In Sep- tember, 1896, he was appointed librarian of the Association of the Bar of New York, and held the position one year. A man of genial nature and most kindly instincts, of urbane manners and democratic habits, he is highly esteemed by all who know him. He has never sought political preferrment and has acted in- dependently in election contests, though his sympathies are chiefly with the Democratic party. He was married September 12, 1861, to Mary Elizabeth Gibbs, of New Bedford, born Febuary 7, 1838, daughter of Alexander and Mary Gibbs. Their only son, Edward Gibbs Merrill, graduated at Columbia Uni- versity in the class of 1897, and is now Libe- rian Consul for New York. He married, De- cember 18, 1908, Daisy Lee Hall, daughter of Dr. Rowland B. Hall, of Macon, Georgia.
(For preceding generations see Abel Merrill II.) (III) Thomas, third son of MERRILL Abel and Priscilla (Chase) Merrill, was born January I, 1679, in Newbury, and resided in Salisbury. He married Judith Kent, and they were the parents of twelve children.
(IV) James, son of Thomas and Judith (Kent) Merrill, was born May 6, 1719, in Salisbury and probably lived in Southampton. He was married in Hampton, January 18, 1739, to Apphia Osgood, and they were the parents of Mary, James, Apphia, Nathan, Levi, Winthrop and Dudley.
(V) Levi, third son of James and Apphia (Osgood) Merrill, was born January 30, 1750, in that part of Hampton which is now South- ampton, New Hampshire, and settled in Maine where he died in 1818. He married Hannah Bean, of Shapleigh, and their children were: Levi, John, Asa, Benjamin, Nathan, James, Seth, Hannah and Sarah.
(VI) John, second son of Levi and Hannah (Bean) Merrill, was born August 20, 1775, in Raymond, New Hampshire, and died in Harmony, Maine, February, 1857. He mar- ried Betsey Doore, daughter of Isaiah and Betsey (or Hannah) (Hussey) Doore, of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1796. She was born 1777 and died 1871. Children : Asa, Hannah, John H., Rufus, Betsey, James,
Martha, Eli, Richard Hussey, Joseph Palmer, Benjamin Bisbie, Mary and Russell.
(VII) Asa, eldest child of John and Betsy (Doore) Merrill, was born November 16, 1797, in Shapleigh, Maine, moved to Dexter early, and there spent his life. By occupation he was a shoemaker. He was identified with the Bap- tist church. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. He married Betsey Emerson and their children were: Eliza, Rox- anna, Catherine, Esther, Alonzo Allen and Ithamar Bowles.
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