Stephen Merrill
(1830 - 1919)
Sources: US census, city directory, newspaper items as noted
1829 Dec 07
Hagerstown, MD, Stephen Merrill is born to Stephen Merrill and
Catherine Workman (Note, there is broad disagreement in records about
the date and place of birth of photographer Merrill)
1860 Jun 08
Taylor, VA, state records, Stephen Merrill marries Rachel Rebecca
Rohrbaugh (here again, records to not agree on the date)
1870 Aug 25
Lexington, IL, US census as photographer
1880 Jun 03
Lexington, IL, US census as photographer
1889
Bloomington, IL, city directory as photographer
1900 Jun 08
Lexington, IL, US census as photographer
1910 Apr 21
Lexington, IL, US census as photographer
1919 Jul 24
Lexington, IL, newspaper obituary, Stephen Merrill died
There was a prominent Methodist Episcopal Bishop Stephen Merrill and
an Illinois funeral undertaker Stephen Merrill in the late 19th
century as well as this photographer Stephen Merrill.
Stephen Merrill was thirty years older than most of the cabinet card
photographers, who were born around 1860.
No newspaper ads were found and only one city directory listing was
found so Merrill’s movements are left rather hazy. Except for the one
listing in the 1989 Bloomington, IL, city directory, he appears to
have spent all his life after 1860 in Lexington, IL.
The style of the card is from around 1895 to 1905.
Ovid, MI
example from auction site
(No connection has been made to S Merrill of Lexington, IL)
Antioch, MI
example from auction site
(No connection has been made to S Merrill of Lexington, IL)
This page is free for educational and research purposes only but, as always, if the original owner of any of these examples objects to the use on this page, they will be immediately removed.
No comments:
Post a Comment