Merrill, Keith, 1887-

Keith Merrill was born on April 2, 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Yale University in 1911 and in 1914 he received a LL.B. from Harvard University. Merrill served in the United States Foreign Service from 1917 until 1937. He was in the U.S. Naval Reserve and served as assistant to Captain W. D. Puleston, Navy liaison officer to the Board of Economic Warfare, from 1942 to 1946. He married Mary Katherine Ayer on May 7, 1917; they had three children: Keith, Jr., Rosemary Katherine, and Eugenia Ayer.