biography of Walter McIntosh MERRILL (1915)

Birth place: Evanston, IL

Addresses: Salem, MA

Profession: Museum director, educator, lecturer, painter

Studied: Northwestern Univ. (B.S.L.); Harvard Univ. (A.M.; Ph.D.); AIC with Paul Weighardt; privately with Cyril Gardner.

Exhibited: Old Northwest Territory Exh., Springfield, IL, 1949

Member: AAMus.; Am. Assn. for State & Local Hist.; various hist. societies.

Comments: Teaching: Amherst, Swarthmore, Northwestern & Bowdoin Colleges, 1942-51. Positions: fellow, Am. Mus. Council Learned Soc., 1951-53; Bowdoin College, 1953-54; dir., Essex Inst., Salem, MA, 1954-. Auth.: From Statesman to Philosopher, 1949; ed., Behold Me Once More, 1954. Contrib. book reviews to scholarly journals. Lectures: Ame. furniture; various lectures on William Lloyd Garrison.