Lockwood Merriman, the son of Frank and Edith (Poole) Merriman, was born in Cambridge, Mass., on December 9, 1913. He was educated in Cambridge, attended Exeter Academy, and graduated from Harvard as a member of the class of 1935. He earned his M.A. in English from Columbia University and taught English at both the Forman School and Kimball Union Academy in the 1930s. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. After a stay in the Station Hospital in Sheppard Field, Texas, his war service included training and working as a laboratory technician in army hospitals in the United States. After the war, he taught and studied at the University of Michigan before moving to Middlebury, Vermont in 1947 and joining the faculty of Middlebury College. While at Middlebury, he taught English, coached men's tennis, and served as Dean of freshmen men and college archivist. He retired and moved to Underhill, Vermont, in 1973. Lockwood Merriman was twice married: once, during World War II, to Aileen Davis, and once, in Underhill, Vermont, to Mary Wallace Carruth.
From the description of Memoirs of a medical laboratory technician or the summation of a career, 1946. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 676837128
