1. Henry Merrill was an American merchant and pioneer of the US state of Wisconsin.
11 Facts About Henry Merrill
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Henry Merrill was a member of the first session of the Wisconsin State Senate in 1848.
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Henry Merrill arrived in Wisconsin at Green Bay in the spring of 1834.
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Henry Merrill witnessed the effects of the Winnebago Treaty of 1837, signed November 1,1837, in which members of the Ho-Chunk nation were defrauded into handing over their lands by 1845.
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Henry Merrill helped conduct the 1840 United States census within the Wisconsin Territory, and was clerk of court in Portage County in 1842.
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In 1848, Merrill was elected as a Whig to a two-year term in the first and second sessions of the Wisconsin State Senate, defeating Democrat and future Governor James T Lewis.
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Henry Merrill was one of only three Whigs in the Senate in the first session.
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Henry Merrill represented the 2nd senatorial district, which, at the time, comprised a large tract of north and central Wisconsin, stretching from the northern boundary of Dane County up to the northern border of the state.
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In 1857, Merrill witnessed a mob attempting to lynch John Baptiste DuBay after he shot and killed William S Reynolds in Portage.
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Henry Merrill was a member of the Episcopal Church in Portage.
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Henry Merrill's house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.