Daughter of Benjamin & Jemima (Blanchard) Merritt.
Princeville Telephone
Feb 1926
Elsie B. Merritt
Elise B. Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Merritt, was born in Watseka, Illinois, September 6, 1876. The family later removed to Princeville, Illinois, the childhood home of her mother who was the daughter of William F. Blanchard, an early settler of this vicinity.
When Elsie was seven years of age, her parents located in Galva. Her a great sorrow crept in the happy family in the death of the father which occurred as a result of an injury received while working on his farm near Princeville.
Elsie graduated with honor from Galva high school in 1893, from Battle Creek College in 1897 and from the American Medical Missionary College in 1901.
After receiving her degree in medicine, Br. Merritt was employed as a physician in the Battle Creek Sanitarium until that institution was destroyed by fire. While the new sanitarium was in the building, she accepted a call to connect with Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Michigan.
On account of failing health of her older brother, Leonard, she felt it her duty to locate near him and took up a private practice in Princeville. While here she made many friends whose interest and devotion was a great source of comfort and encouragement to her during her last illness.
After her brother's death, see connected in 1908, with the Des Moines, Iowa, Sanitarium. Overwork and exposure at the time ??? removal told on her health and she was obliged to give up active work for a time.
In 1913 she joined the medical staff of St. Helena Sanitarium, California where she spent 11 years of earnest work as eye, ear throat and nose specialist and instructor of the nurses.
The death of her brother, as they were enroute to the East in 1922, was a great shock to her, from which she never fully recovered. She returned to her work, but her strength and health gradually declined and she was obliged to give up her work entirely in April 1924.
She suffered much and struggled hard to regain her health that she might continue in the work to which her life was devoted, but a loving Father ordered otherwise and trusting His love, she quietly fell asleep Friday afternoon, February 19, 1926.
Of immediate family a brother Albert N. Merritt of Chicago, Illinois and a sister, Dr. Ruth M. Miller of California, are left. These with many other relatives and friends mourn the loss.
Princeville Telephone
Feb 1926
Elsie B. Merritt
Elise B. Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Merritt, was born in Watseka, Illinois, September 6, 1876. The family later removed to Princeville, Illinois, the childhood home of her mother who was the daughter of William F. Blanchard, an early settler of this vicinity.
When Elsie was seven years of age, her parents located in Galva. Her a great sorrow crept in the happy family in the death of the father which occurred as a result of an injury received while working on his farm near Princeville.
Elsie graduated with honor from Galva high school in 1893, from Battle Creek College in 1897 and from the American Medical Missionary College in 1901.
After receiving her degree in medicine, Br. Merritt was employed as a physician in the Battle Creek Sanitarium until that institution was destroyed by fire. While the new sanitarium was in the building, she accepted a call to connect with Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Michigan.
On account of failing health of her older brother, Leonard, she felt it her duty to locate near him and took up a private practice in Princeville. While here she made many friends whose interest and devotion was a great source of comfort and encouragement to her during her last illness.
After her brother's death, see connected in 1908, with the Des Moines, Iowa, Sanitarium. Overwork and exposure at the time ??? removal told on her health and she was obliged to give up active work for a time.
In 1913 she joined the medical staff of St. Helena Sanitarium, California where she spent 11 years of earnest work as eye, ear throat and nose specialist and instructor of the nurses.
The death of her brother, as they were enroute to the East in 1922, was a great shock to her, from which she never fully recovered. She returned to her work, but her strength and health gradually declined and she was obliged to give up her work entirely in April 1924.
She suffered much and struggled hard to regain her health that she might continue in the work to which her life was devoted, but a loving Father ordered otherwise and trusting His love, she quietly fell asleep Friday afternoon, February 19, 1926.
Of immediate family a brother Albert N. Merritt of Chicago, Illinois and a sister, Dr. Ruth M. Miller of California, are left. These with many other relatives and friends mourn the loss.
Daughter of Benjamin & Jemima (Blanchard) Merritt.
Princeville Telephone
Feb 1926
Elsie B. Merritt
Elise B. Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Merritt, was born in Watseka, Illinois, September 6, 1876. The family later removed to Princeville, Illinois, the childhood home of her mother who was the daughter of William F. Blanchard, an early settler of this vicinity.
When Elsie was seven years of age, her parents located in Galva. Her a great sorrow crept in the happy family in the death of the father which occurred as a result of an injury received while working on his farm near Princeville.
Elsie graduated with honor from Galva high school in 1893, from Battle Creek College in 1897 and from the American Medical Missionary College in 1901.
After receiving her degree in medicine, Br. Merritt was employed as a physician in the Battle Creek Sanitarium until that institution was destroyed by fire. While the new sanitarium was in the building, she accepted a call to connect with Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Michigan.
On account of failing health of her older brother, Leonard, she felt it her duty to locate near him and took up a private practice in Princeville. While here she made many friends whose interest and devotion was a great source of comfort and encouragement to her during her last illness.
After her brother's death, see connected in 1908, with the Des Moines, Iowa, Sanitarium. Overwork and exposure at the time ??? removal told on her health and she was obliged to give up active work for a time.
In 1913 she joined the medical staff of St. Helena Sanitarium, California where she spent 11 years of earnest work as eye, ear throat and nose specialist and instructor of the nurses.
The death of her brother, as they were enroute to the East in 1922, was a great shock to her, from which she never fully recovered. She returned to her work, but her strength and health gradually declined and she was obliged to give up her work entirely in April 1924.
She suffered much and struggled hard to regain her health that she might continue in the work to which her life was devoted, but a loving Father ordered otherwise and trusting His love, she quietly fell asleep Friday afternoon, February 19, 1926.
Of immediate family a brother Albert N. Merritt of Chicago, Illinois and a sister, Dr. Ruth M. Miller of California, are left. These with many other relatives and friends mourn the loss.
Princeville Telephone
Feb 1926
Elsie B. Merritt
Elise B. Merritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Merritt, was born in Watseka, Illinois, September 6, 1876. The family later removed to Princeville, Illinois, the childhood home of her mother who was the daughter of William F. Blanchard, an early settler of this vicinity.
When Elsie was seven years of age, her parents located in Galva. Her a great sorrow crept in the happy family in the death of the father which occurred as a result of an injury received while working on his farm near Princeville.
Elsie graduated with honor from Galva high school in 1893, from Battle Creek College in 1897 and from the American Medical Missionary College in 1901.
After receiving her degree in medicine, Br. Merritt was employed as a physician in the Battle Creek Sanitarium until that institution was destroyed by fire. While the new sanitarium was in the building, she accepted a call to connect with Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Michigan.
On account of failing health of her older brother, Leonard, she felt it her duty to locate near him and took up a private practice in Princeville. While here she made many friends whose interest and devotion was a great source of comfort and encouragement to her during her last illness.
After her brother's death, see connected in 1908, with the Des Moines, Iowa, Sanitarium. Overwork and exposure at the time ??? removal told on her health and she was obliged to give up active work for a time.
In 1913 she joined the medical staff of St. Helena Sanitarium, California where she spent 11 years of earnest work as eye, ear throat and nose specialist and instructor of the nurses.
The death of her brother, as they were enroute to the East in 1922, was a great shock to her, from which she never fully recovered. She returned to her work, but her strength and health gradually declined and she was obliged to give up her work entirely in April 1924.
She suffered much and struggled hard to regain her health that she might continue in the work to which her life was devoted, but a loving Father ordered otherwise and trusting His love, she quietly fell asleep Friday afternoon, February 19, 1926.
Of immediate family a brother Albert N. Merritt of Chicago, Illinois and a sister, Dr. Ruth M. Miller of California, are left. These with many other relatives and friends mourn the loss.
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Buried Feb 20, 1926
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