Ayres Phillips Merrill

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1798-04-17

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1873-11-03

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"Ayres Phillips Merrill" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001268, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Memphis, Tennessee, and New York City, New York, physician, educator, and editor. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native. Father of Eugeni Merrill and Mary Merrill. Veteran of the War of 1812. Graduated from the medical college at Fairfield, New York, in 1819. Surgeon's mate in the 8th U.S. Infantry Regiment from 1819 to June 1821. Assistant surgeon in the 8th U.S. Infantry Regiment from June 1821 to September 1823. Relocated to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1823. Relocated to Memphis in 1850. Organized the medical college at Memphis in 1850. Chair of the theory and practice of medicine at the medical college in Memphis. Editor of the Memphis Recorder in Memphis in 1851. Moved to New York City in 1864. Physician in New York City from 1864 to 1873.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Memphis, Ward No. 4, p. 55. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske eds., Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. IV (New York: Appleton and Company, 1888), 305-306. Sam Davis Elliott ed., Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 5. Find A Grave, "Dr. Ayers Phillips Merrill (1798-1873)," Memorial #92932600, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92932600/ayers-phillips-merrill (accessed March 7, 2018).

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