History of Millville, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Elmer Truesdell Merrill, educator, was born in Millville, Mass., Jan. 1, 1860; son of Charles Atwood and Mary Sophia (Truesdell) Merrill; grandson of John and Deborah (Atwood) Merrill and of Erastus Ozias and Mary (Dwight) Truesdell, and a descendant of Nathaniel Merrill, 1610-1655, one of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass., incorporated in 1635. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, B.A., 1881, M.A., 1889, and from the Berkeley Divinity school in 1894; was a graduate student at Wesleyan, 1881-82, Yale, 1885-86, and the University of Berlin, 1886-87, and studied elsewhere in Europe. He taught in the Massachusetts State Normal school, Westfield, 1882-83; was tutor at Wesleyan, 1883-86; professor of Latin at the University of South California, 1887-88, and was elected Rich professor of Latin at Wesleyan in 1888. He was married, June 19, 1890, to Edith Valentine, of Los Angeles, Cal. He was admitted to the diaconate in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1894, and was ordained priest in 1895. He was elected a member of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome in 1895, was professor in the school, 1898-99, and was elected acting chairman and secretary of the committee in 1899, and chairman in 1900. He became a member of the American Philological association in 1883, and of the Arch?ological Institute of America in 1896. He published an edition of the Poems of Catullus, with notes (1893), and Fragments of Roman Satire (1896), besides contributions to philological and arch?ological periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Millville, (Worcester County) Massachusetts

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