J. Warren Merrill Explained

Joseph Warren Merrill
Office:	12th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Term Start:	January 1865
Term End:	January 1867
Predecessor:	Zebina L. Raymond
Successor:	Ezra Parmenter
Birth Date:	December 13, 1819
Birth Place:	South Hampton, New Hampshire
Death Date:	November 12, 1889
Signature:	J. Warren Merrill signature.png

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.^[1]

Personal life

J. Warren Merrill was born on December 13, 1819, in South Hampton, New Hampshire, to Nathan and Sally (Page) Merrill. He married Hannah Brown Wattson in 1848, with whom he had two daughters and four sons.^[2] He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1889.^[3]

Notes

1. "Mayflower Hill, A History of Colby College." Appendix C. Earl H. Smith. University Press of New England. 2006.
2. Book: Marquis, Albert Nelson . The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy . 1925 . 9780806303628 . 699 . en.
3. Book: White, James Terry . The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . 1906 . 166 . en.