Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam was born in New York City in 1855. His father, Clinton Levi Merriam, was a U.S. congressman. He studied biology and anatomy at Yale University and went on to obtain an M.D. from the School of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1879 and taught at Harvard University for a period of time.
C. Hart Merriam practised medicine, 1878-1885, at Locust Grove and was President of Lewis County Medical Society. He established a museum at the Merriam residence called Homewood, specializing in zoology, botany and ethnology and became connected with these branches of natural science with the Smithsonian Institute. He authored several books, including "Mammals of the Adirondacks", Results of the Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of Little Colorado in Arizona". History of Lewis County,1880-1965
C. Hart Merriam practised medicine, 1878-1885, at Locust Grove and was President of Lewis County Medical Society. He established a museum at the Merriam residence called Homewood, specializing in zoology, botany and ethnology and became connected with these branches of natural science with the Smithsonian Institute. He authored several books, including "Mammals of the Adirondacks", Results of the Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of Little Colorado in Arizona". History of Lewis County,1880-1965
Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam was born in New York City in 1855. His father, Clinton Levi Merriam, was a U.S. congressman. He studied biology and anatomy at Yale University and went on to obtain an M.D. from the School of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1879 and taught at Harvard University for a period of time.
C. Hart Merriam practised medicine, 1878-1885, at Locust Grove and was President of Lewis County Medical Society. He established a museum at the Merriam residence called Homewood, specializing in zoology, botany and ethnology and became connected with these branches of natural science with the Smithsonian Institute. He authored several books, including "Mammals of the Adirondacks", Results of the Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of Little Colorado in Arizona". History of Lewis County,1880-1965
C. Hart Merriam practised medicine, 1878-1885, at Locust Grove and was President of Lewis County Medical Society. He established a museum at the Merriam residence called Homewood, specializing in zoology, botany and ethnology and became connected with these branches of natural science with the Smithsonian Institute. He authored several books, including "Mammals of the Adirondacks", Results of the Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of Little Colorado in Arizona". History of Lewis County,1880-1965
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