Charles e merrill biography

American businessman (1885–1956)

For other people with similar names, see Charles E. Merrill Jr.

Charles Edward Merrill (October 19, 1885 – October 6, 1956)^[1] was an Americanphilanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder, with Edmund C.

Lynch, of Merrill Lynch (previously called Charles E. Merrill & Co.).

Early years

Charles E. Merrill, the son of physician Dr. Charles Morton Merrill and Octavia (Wilson) Merrill,^[2] was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, where he spent his early childhood.

In 1898 the family briefly moved to Knoxville, Tennessee but within the year returned to Florida to settle in Jacksonville. After the school had been damaged in the Great Fire of 1901, his parents decided to send him to the college preparatory academy operated by John B.

Stetson University (now known as Stetson University). Merrill studied there from 1901 until 1903 and then in 1903 for the final year of high school was transferred to Worceste