Charles A. Merrill
Charles Amos Merrill was born September 23, 1843, at South Boston,
Massachusetts. He commenced his preparatory studies at the High School at Concord,
New Hampshire, and entered college at the beginning of Freshman Fall term, August 24,
1860.
He severed his connection with Dartmouth at the end of Sophomore year, and
went to Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1864.
Early in the Fall, he went to Haddam, Connecticut, where he was Principal of Brainard
Academy until January 1, 1865. He then went into the army, and served in the capacity
of Paymaster's clerk for two years, being stationed at Fortress Monroe, Virginia; New
Berne, North Carolina, and Washington, D. C. During the years 1867Ä8, he was the
clerk of Senator J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire, and also of the Sergeant-at-Arms of
the United States Senate. He studied law, and graduated at Columbian Law
School, Washington, D. C., in 1869. He then went to Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and graduated in 1870. He was winner of the Prize Essay upon
graduation at Harvard, which essay was published in Bench and Bar in 1870. He went to
Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1871, and practised his profession for about one year, when
he removed, in 1872, to Worcester, Massachusetts. Here he formed a copartnership with
W. A. Gile, Esq., under the firm name of Gile & Merrill, which existed until 1879, when
it was dissolved, and he has since continued alone in a successful legal practice.
His religious preference is for the Congregational church.
He was married April 15, 1873, to Miss Nellie E.
Shuey, of Minneapolis,
Minnesota. They have no children.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" compiled by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
