Merrill, Charles Griswold Gurley, 1836-1909.

Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill trained at Yale College to be a physician and subsequently served as a Union army surgeon during the Civil War. After the war he worked in New Haven, Connecticut as a gauger and bookkeeper.

From the description of Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill papers, 1854-1872 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168989

Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill trained at Yale College to be a physician and subsequently served as a Union army surgeon during the Civil War. After the war he worked in New Haven, Connecticut as a gauger and bookkeeper.

CHARLES GRISWOLD GURLEY MERRILL, 1836-1909

Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill, son of David Jackman Merrill (B.A. Yale 1827), who was for over twenty years a druggist in Newburyport, Mass., was born in that city, July 27, 1836. His mother was Ann M. (Titcomb) Merrill. He entered the class the last term of Freshman year.

After graduation from college he studied a year in the Medical School, and was then Acting Assistant Surgeon United States Army, at Nashville, Tenn., receiving his formal appointment to the position January 21, 1863, after completing his course in the Yale Medical School. December 21, 1863, he was appointed Surgeon of the 22nd Regiment, United States Colored Troops, which soon afterward became part of the 18th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and shared in various movements of the siege of Petersburg and capture of Richmond. The regiment later took part in the obsequies of President Lincoln and the pursuit of his assassin. He then went with the regiment to Texas and remained there till November 20, 1865, when he was mustered out of service.

Since then he had lived in New Haven, Conn., and was for nearly twenty years a gauger in the Internal Revenue Service. In 1889 he became bookkeeper for F. S. Porter, then a wholesale liquor dealer, and retired early in 1909 after a service of twenty years. He devoted considerable time to the study of modern languages, and for several years taught a night school for the city.

Mr. Merrill died at his home in New Haven, September 23, 1909. He was 73 years of age.

He married in New Haven, May 23, 1865, Georgia A., daughter of Charles and Mary Kinney, and had three daughters, of whom the second died in 1872. The youngest daughter is the wife of Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Ph.D. (B.A. Yale 1895), Professor in the University of Illinois.

From: Yale Obituary Record, 1909-1910.

From the guide to the Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill papers, 1854-1872, (Manuscripts and Archives)