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History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana
by B. R. Sulgrove
pub. L. H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia, PA - 1884

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        SAMUEL MERRILL was born in Peacham, Vt., Oct. 29, 1792. He died in
     Indianapolis, Aug. 24, 1855. He entered an advanced class in Dartmouth
     College, but did not graduate, for in his junior year he left to join
     his elder brother, JAMES, in teaching in York, Pa. studying law, hav-
     ing for his familiar associates THADEUS STEVENS, JOHN BLANCHARD, and
     his elder brother, JAMES MERRILL,, all from Peacham, Vt., and all men
     who have made their mark on their age. At the endof this time he re-
     moved to Vevay, in this State, and established himself in the practice
     of law. In 1821 he was elected to the Legislature for two years, and
     during his term of office he was elected treasurer of State. In the
     discharge of the duties of this office he removed first to Corydon,
     and thence in 1824 to this place.  He held the. office of treasurer of
     State till 1834, when he was chosen president of the State Bank. The
     duties of this office he discharged with the most unwearied fidelity
     and unimpeachable honesty till 1844, when his public life terminated,
     with the exception of four years of service as the president of the
     Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company. For several years before
     his death he was engaged in the book trade, still continued by his
     son. His daughter KATE until very recently was Professor of English
     Ligerature in Butler University. MR. MERRILL assisted in forming HENRY
     WARD BEECHER'S church here, and was all his life after most earnest
     and devoted in all good works.

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