Biography

03/10/1845 - 03/27/1925

MERRILL, Erwin, a Representative from Northampton County; born, March 10, 1845 in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pa.; carpenter; building contractor; chief of police, Bangor, Pa.; elected, constable, Bangor; elected, justice of the peace, Bangor; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); appointed, deputy coroner, Bangor (6 years); unsuccessful campaign, mayor, Bangor (1917); died, March 27, 1925 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint John’s Cemetery, Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.