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J. Warren Merrill

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Joseph Warren Merrill
12th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office
January 1865 – January 1867
Preceded byZebina L. Raymond
Succeeded byEzra Parmenter
Personal details
BornDecember 13, 1819[1]
South Hampton, New Hampshire[1]
DiedNovember 12, 1889[2]
Spouse
Hannah Brown Wattson
(m. 1848)
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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]

Personal life

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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

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ 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. ^ a b "Mayflower Hill, A History of Colby College." Appendix C. Earl H. Smith. University Press of New England. 2006.
  4. ^ Marquis, Albert Nelson (1925). The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. p. 699. ISBN 9780806303628.
  5. ^ White, James Terry (1906). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. p. 166.
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 1865 – January 1867
Succeeded by