Herbert A. Merrill DDS (August 24, 1855 – September 29, 1926) was an American dentist and militia officer.
Life and career Merrill was born on August 24, 1855. He graduated from Boston Dental College in 1881.The Dental Cosmos, Volume 23 (1881), p. 241
He married Leila Small, with whom he had at least two children: Jessie and Lawrence.
Merrill established his dental practice in 1881.Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine, Volume 28 (1915), p. 353R.L. Polk & Co.'s Dental Register of the United States and Canada (1914) In 1889, the practice was located in the rear of his house, built four years earlier, in Brickyard Hollow on Yarmouth's Main Street. It has since been moved to 26 School Street.Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.44 It is the building now occupied by InSight Eyecare on the InterMed campus. By 1901, Merrill had an office in nearby Portland.Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine, Volume 13 (1901), p. 20 He and his family lived in Portland for the first few months of 1897, but had returned to Yarmouth by June.Journal of Medicine and Science, Volume 3 (1896), p. 10
In 1883, Merrill was a second lieutenant with the Yarmouth Rifles;Report, Maine Adjutant General (1884), p. 17 by 1889 he was captain.Maine Register Or State Year-book and Legislative Manual (1889), p. 127 In 1895, the following evaluation of the Yarmouth Rifles was delivered: that they should "in no way be considered a part of the Guard. From inquiries made, judge it now to be an organization in name only."The Autumn Maneuvers of 1894, United States Adjutant General's Office (1895)
In July 1883, Merrill was elected to the Maine Dental Society.History of Dentistry in Maine, Dana Willis Fellow (1924), p. 57
Along with nineteen other locals, including Lorenzo L. Shaw, Merrill formed the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway Company in 1898.
Death Merrill died on September 28, 1926, aged 71. He is interred in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, alongside his wife. She had remarried six years after Merrill's death, to Freeland A. Knight, who survived her by fourteen years. Knight was buried beside his first wife, Huldah C. Jackson, in Rumford, Maine.
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