Lewis J. Merritt was born at Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York and moved West with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio and Duluth, Minnesota. Lewis shipped as a sailor on the Great Lakes at age 15. He later married Eunice Annette Wood in Oneota, St. Louis County, Minnesota on Dec. 26, 1869. "A Biographical History With Portraits of Prominent Men of the Great West" reported at Page 220 that Lewis Merritt and Eunice Wood were the first white couple to be issued a marriage license and married in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Lewis went to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota in 1873 to work as a cook during the construction of Custer Barracks. Lewis later lived in Atchison County, Missouri from 1874 until returning in 1887 to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked with his brothers Leonidas, Alfred and Cassius Merritt prospecting for iron ore. After John D. Rockefeller Sr. gained control of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, Lewis moved in 1897 to Pasadena, California, where he became a wealthy real estate developer.
Lewis went to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota in 1873 to work as a cook during the construction of Custer Barracks. Lewis later lived in Atchison County, Missouri from 1874 until returning in 1887 to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked with his brothers Leonidas, Alfred and Cassius Merritt prospecting for iron ore. After John D. Rockefeller Sr. gained control of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, Lewis moved in 1897 to Pasadena, California, where he became a wealthy real estate developer.
Lewis J. Merritt was born at Hanover, Chautauqua County, New York and moved West with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio and Duluth, Minnesota. Lewis shipped as a sailor on the Great Lakes at age 15. He later married Eunice Annette Wood in Oneota, St. Louis County, Minnesota on Dec. 26, 1869. "A Biographical History With Portraits of Prominent Men of the Great West" reported at Page 220 that Lewis Merritt and Eunice Wood were the first white couple to be issued a marriage license and married in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Lewis went to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota in 1873 to work as a cook during the construction of Custer Barracks. Lewis later lived in Atchison County, Missouri from 1874 until returning in 1887 to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked with his brothers Leonidas, Alfred and Cassius Merritt prospecting for iron ore. After John D. Rockefeller Sr. gained control of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, Lewis moved in 1897 to Pasadena, California, where he became a wealthy real estate developer.
Lewis went to Fort Lincoln, North Dakota in 1873 to work as a cook during the construction of Custer Barracks. Lewis later lived in Atchison County, Missouri from 1874 until returning in 1887 to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked with his brothers Leonidas, Alfred and Cassius Merritt prospecting for iron ore. After John D. Rockefeller Sr. gained control of the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, Lewis moved in 1897 to Pasadena, California, where he became a wealthy real estate developer.
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There are no headstones in the Merritt family's Plot 593 at the Mountain View Cemetery.
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