Merrick-Jones family papers, 1855-1962.

Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896

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Joseph Jones (6 Sept. 1833-17 Feb. 1896), physician and scientist, was born in Liberty County, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a major planter and prominent minister to the slaves, and his first cousin, Mary Sharpe Jones. Joseph Jones was educated at South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), Princeton College (now University, B.A., 1853), and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1856). Jones developed a lifelong interest in scientific research during h...

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Merrick, Edwin Thomas, 1808-1897

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Merrick worked as a lawyer in Ohio and Louisiana. He set up his law practice in Clinton, La. in 1838, three years after expressing to his mother that he wished to move to the South because "more money can be made than it is said dull northern men can dream of." He was elected district judge and served as chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1855-1865. He married Caroline Elizabeth Thomas of Cottage Hall Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, and they had four children, including son Edwin T...

Polk, Frances Ann Devereux, -1875?

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Merrick family.

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Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878

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Lawyer, of Bangor and Portland, Me.; U.S. district attorney for Maine; judge Maine 1st Circuit Court; served as Military Governor of Louisiana during the Civil War. From the description of Papers, 1862-1864. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978835 Lawyer, U.S. district attorney, state legislator, and judge, of Portland, Me.; commissioned as colonel in 12th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry during Civil War; made military commander of New Orleans, La...

Jones, Joseph Merrick.

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