Frederick Baker Merrill 1886–1946

Frederick Baker Merrill, 1886–1946 (aged 59 years)

Frederick Baker Merrill

Fred Merrill on left, mayor of Stillwater MN

Name

Frederick Baker Merrill

Name: Frederick Baker /Merrill/
Given names: Frederick Baker
Surname: Merrill

Gender Male

Events of close relatives
Birth	May 26, 1886 30 30 Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
Death of a paternal grandfather	Philo G. C. Merrill August 27, 1896 (aged 10 years) Des Moines, Warren Co, Iowa, USA
Census	1900 (aged 13 years) Note: Burton J Merrill Burton J Merrill Father's Birthplace: IA Mother's name: Comelia A Merrill Mother's Birthplace: New York Marital Status: Single Household Members: Name and Age------ Burton J Merrill 44 Comelia A Merrill 42 Lillian C Merrill 16 Fred B Merrill 14 Tyler W Merrill 10 Harriet Sanutag 20 Emma Sanutag 2
Death of a paternal grandmother	Sophia Woodward March 25, 1915 (aged 28 years) Grinnell, Poweshiek Co, Iowa, USA
Marriage	Florence Katherine Peters — View this family 1917 (aged 30 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
Death of a father	Burton J. Merrill 1920 (aged 33 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
Death of a mother	Cornelia Aldevero 1929 (aged 42 years)
Census	1930 (aged 43 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Address: 720 N. 5th Street Note: The value of the home was $10,000 The value of the home was $10,000 Fred was listed as the owner of an insurance agency Fred's parents were from (mother) NY and (father) Iowa
Residence	1930 (aged 43 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Address: North 5th Street corner of Hickory Florence and Freds home on North 5th Stillwater, MN
Occupation	Agent for the Importers and Exporters Insurance Co New York 1932 (aged 45 years)
Birth of a daughter	Sally Cornelia Merrill September 23, 1933 (aged 47 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
Mayor	Politics between 1934 and 1938 (aged 51 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
Burial of a father	Burton J. Merrill Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Source: Fairview cemetery, Stillwater Minnesota Source: Washington County Historical Society Note: Health is something we are all concerned about, but a doctor with a calm voice and soothing words can make the visits somewhat more bearable. Health is something we are all concerned about, but a doctor with a calm voice and soothing words can make the visits somewhat more bearable. So it was 100 years ago, and one of the old-time doctors then was Dr. Merrill. Dr. Burton Jay Merrill was born in 1856 in Palmyra, Iowa. He graduated from Grinnell College with a B.S. degree in 1875 and an M.A. in 1880. In 1881 at Bellevue Hospital in New York he received his M.D., then moved to Hudson, Wis. where he opened his first office. The following year he moved to Stillwater, partnering with Dr. Millard. He became one of the organizing members of the Washington County Medical Society, with the first meeting held May 31, 1882. He was married to Cornelia A. Merrill in 1882 and the couple had three children — sons Fred and Tyler and one daughter who married Beltram Sauntry. There were no serious epidemics or diseases in Stillwater, partly attributed to Merrill and the activities of the board of health. In 1885, the first of a series of thorough sanitary inspections took place in Stillwater. Merrill wrote that they were house-to-house inspections that took place as “the weather permitted, and continued two months. The citizens in general were helpful, though others were arrested and brought before the municipal court. Thousands of loads of garbage and contents of privy vaults were taken from every part of the city to the dumping grounds. The city never underwent such a general cleaning before. The death rate has come down in a remarkable manner and the health of our community is second to no other city or section in the entire country.” In July 1893 a severe tornado hit Stillwater and the entire area around it. Merrill got a firsthand look at the cyclone as he was coming back from the Lakeland area. He jumped from his carriage and took “seclusion under a friendly rock by the roadside” before seeing the storm disappear over the Wisconsin bluffs. Merrill was professor of therapeutics and materia medica (now termed pharmacology) at St. Paul Medical College for two years. He served as Washington County physician and coroner and was also Stillwater’s health commissioner. For a number of years he was also physician and surgeon for the Minnesota State Prison. It was Merrill who helped the dying Bob Younger at the prison as Younger succumbed to consumption (tuberculosis) in 1889. During his lifetime Merrill was affiliated with a number of medical societies and was member of a number of local organizations including the B.P.O. Elks, Sons of the American Revolution and the Knights of Pythias. Owing to a general breakdown of his health, Merrill gave up his medical practice in 1920. He left Stillwater for a summer camp near Grantsburg, Wis. around June 20, 1920, hoping to recover his health among the pines of that area. He returned to Stillwater July 15, chatting in a cheerful manner with those with him and upon arrival was greatly pleased to be with loved ones once again. During the night he was “attacked with a sinking spell” and just before 7:30 a.m. July 16, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Merrill was called Stillwater’s “famous family physician” and a “distinguished gentleman, and a friend to everyone he knew.
Burial of a mother	Cornelia Aldevero Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Source: Fairview cemetery, Stillwater Minnesota
Adoption of a daughter	Sally Cornelia Merrill Adoptive parents: Frederick Baker Merrill + Florence Katherine Peters Adoption: Adopted by both parents Note: Henry John Leferink b: 1877 Hengelo, Netherlands D: 1937 +Mathilda M. Koch b: Jul 15, 1884 Davenport Iowa, d: Jan 8, 1918 Henry John Leferink b: 1877 Hengelo, Netherlands D: 1937 +Mathilda M. Koch b: Jul 15, 1884 Davenport Iowa, d: Jan 8, 1918 Rochester Census 1930 lists Henry Leferink as an inmate. Children: (1) Marcella M Leferink b: 3 Mar 1916 Cresco Iowa, d: 1973 Rochester breast cancer. m: Raymond Norwich (1st husband) b: Jul 31 1918, d: Sep 1967 She worked at Model laundry in Rochester for many years. Lived on center street. Died of breast cancer. Children: Delores Joan (Sally) Sally born in Sep 1933 put up for adoption Born May 1934, adoption finalized Mar 1935 (2) Harry Benard b: Nov 23,1904 d: Jan 1981 Rochester, Minnesota +Marie Henkes B: 1905, m: 23 Jan 1930 (3) Edward H b: Dec 29, 1906 Cleona Iowa, wife lives at Iowa 22 Broadway N Rochester MN 55906 (507) 282-6181 Wife of Ed (Loiskow), 85, said that Marcella had no children, married two times, second just before she died, married in Cresco, Iowa (4) Arnold J (Red) b: Aug 5, 1913 d: 29 APR 1995 in Henderson, Clark, NV Leferink Gary 4901 36 Av NW Rochester MN 55901 (507) 282-4068 (5) Eleanor M, b: +Gilbert Frank Wilson b: 11 JUN 1904 in New Oregon Twp., Howard Co,, Iowa,
Death	March 6, 1946 (aged 59 years) Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Cause of death: Cerebral Hemorrhage
Burial	Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Source: Fairview cemetery, Stillwater Minnesota

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Family with parents
father	Links Birth: 1856 39 33 — Palmyra Warren Co, Iowa, USA Religious marriage: Occupation: Doctor — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: 1920 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Cornelia Aldevero Frederick Baker Merrill Tyler Woodword Merrill Lillian Cornelia Merrill Burton J. Merrill 1856–1920 Birth: 1856 39 33 — Palmyra Warren Co, Iowa, USA Death: 1920 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
mother	Links Birth: 1856 — New York, USA Religious marriage: Death: 1929 Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Burton J. Merrill Frederick Baker Merrill Tyler Woodword Merrill Lillian Cornelia Merrill Cornelia Aldevero 1856–1929 Birth: 1856 — New York, USA Death: 1929
Religious marriage	Religious marriage — —
himself	Links Birth: May 26, 1886 30 30 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Census: 1900 Marriage: 1917 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Census: 1930 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Occupation: Agent for the Importers and Exporters Insurance Co New York — 1932 Mayor: Politics — between 1934 and 1938 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: March 6, 1946 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Florence Katherine Peters Sally Cornelia Merrill Frederick Baker Merrill 1886–1946 Birth: May 26, 1886 30 30 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: March 6, 1946 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
brother	Links Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Tyler Woodword Merrill –
elder sister	Links Birth: October 4, 1883 27 27 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Religious marriage: September 27, 1905 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: October 15, 1972 — Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, USA Burial: Lakewood Cemetery Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Beltram Wilfred Sauntry Lillian Cornelia Merrill 1883–1972 Birth: October 4, 1883 27 27 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: October 15, 1972 — Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, USA

Family with Florence Katherine Peters
himself	Links Birth: May 26, 1886 30 30 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Census: 1900 Marriage: 1917 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Census: 1930 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Occupation: Agent for the Importers and Exporters Insurance Co New York — 1932 Mayor: Politics — between 1934 and 1938 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: March 6, 1946 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Florence Katherine Peters Sally Cornelia Merrill Frederick Baker Merrill 1886–1946 Birth: May 26, 1886 30 30 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: March 6, 1946 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
wife	Links Birth: May 17, 1895 27 27 — Beaver Dam, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA Baptism: LeRoy, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA Marriage: 1917 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: August 9, 1983 — Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Frederick Baker Merrill Sally Cornelia Merrill Florence Katherine Peters 1895–1983 Birth: May 17, 1895 27 27 — Beaver Dam, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA Death: August 9, 1983 — Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA
Marriage	Marriage — 1917 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA
17 years daughter	Links Birth: September 23, 1933 47 38 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Adoption: Death: August 16, 2019 — Linden, Genesee Co, Michigan, USA Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Stillwater, Minnesota, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Relationships Family with spouse Jack Harold Humphrey Timothy J Humphrey Sally Cornelia Merrill 1933–2019 Birth: September 23, 1933 47 38 — Stillwater, Washington Co, Minnesota, USA Death: August 16, 2019 — Linden, Genesee Co, Michigan, USA

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Burial	Source: Fairview cemetery, Stillwater Minnesota

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Census	Burton J Merrill Father's Birthplace: IA Mother's name: Comelia A Merrill Mother's Birthplace: New York Marital Status: Single Household Members: Name and Age------ Burton J Merrill 44 Comelia A Merrill 42 Lillian C Merrill 16 Fred B Merrill 14 Tyler W Merrill 10 Harriet Sanutag 20 Emma Sanutag 2
Census	The value of the home was $10,000 Fred was listed as the owner of an insurance agency Fred's parents were from (mother) NY and (father) Iowa

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Residence	Florence and Freds home on North 5th Stillwater, MN
Media object	Frederick Baker Merrill
Media object	Fred Merrill on left, mayor of Stillwater MN
Media object	Fred Florence and Sally 1936

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September 28, 2015 – 21:19:24

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Family with parents
father Parents Philo G. C. Merrill Sophia Woodward	Burton J. Merrill 1856–1920
mother	Cornelia Aldevero 1856–1929
himself	Frederick Baker Merrill 1886–1946
brother	Tyler Woodword Merrill –
elder sister Family Beltram Wilfred Sauntry	Lillian Cornelia Merrill 1883–1972

Family with Florence Katherine Peters
himself	Frederick Baker Merrill 1886–1946
wife Parents Andries Juliaan Peters Victoria C. Schmidbauer	Florence Katherine Peters 1895–1983
daughter Family Jack Harold Humphrey Private Private Private Private Private Timothy J Humphrey	Sally Cornelia Merrill 1933–2019

Descendants

Frederick Baker Merrill(1886–1946)
- Florence Katherine Peters1917
  - Sally Cornelia Merrill(1933–2019)