Clinton Levi Merriam (March 25, 1824 – February 18, 1900) was a
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from
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Merriam was born in
Leyden
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,
Lewis County,
New York
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on March 25, 1824. He attended the common schools and Copenhagen Academy,
Copenhagen, New York
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; engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Utica, New York
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; moved to
New York City
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in 1847 and became an importer; engaged in banking in 1860; returned to Leyden in 1864; elected as a
Republican
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to the
Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875); retired from active business pursuits and lived in retirement at his house, "Homewood", on the family estate, "Locust Grove" near Leyden, New York. He died while on a visit in
Washington, D.C.
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, on February 18, 1900; interment in Leyden Hill Cemetery,
Port Leyden, New York
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.
His children include the zoologist
Clinton Hart Merriam
Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, naturalist and physician. He was commonly known as the 'father of mammalogy', a ...
and the ornithologist
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
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.
References
External links
*
Clinton Levi Merriam Papers, circa 1848-1899from the
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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1824 births
1900 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century American politicians
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