JOSEPH H. MERRILL

MERRILL

Posted By: Deb Barker (email)
Date: 4/22/2011 at 22:25:53

JOSEPH H. MERRILL was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, September 27, 1827; he died at Ottumwa, Iowa, April 25, 1911. He removed to Ottumwa in 1862 and entered the grocery business in which he was very successful and became the head of the wholesale grocery house of J. H. Merrill Co. of Ottumwa with branch houses at Creston and Red Oak. He was also interested in the banking business and at the time of his death was president of the Iowa National Bank of Ottumwa, the City Savings Bank and the Agency Savings Bank. He served as senator from Wapello county in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies.
- "Notable Deaths" Annals of Iowa. Vol. XI, No. 1, 3rd Series. p. 630. Historical Society of Iowa. Des Moines. April, 1913.