Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Merrill, Del E. 1888 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.69-70  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        DEL E. MERRILL is making in his progressive activities as a contractor
and builder a definite contribution to the material development and advancement
of his home city, Miami, where he has been prominently concerned also in the
platting and developing of attractive subdivisions.
	Mr. Merrill claims the old Keystone State as a place of his nativity, 
his birth having occurred at Bangor, Pennsylvania, in 1888, and his parents, 
ERWIN and EMMA C. (HOLLAND) MERRILL, likewise being natives of that state. The 
early education of Mr. Merrill was obtained in the public schools and Lafayette 
College, and as a youth he learned the carpenter’s trade and the details of
general contracting and building under the direction of his father, who held
prestige as a contractor and builder of the first rank. Incidentally he learned
also the lessons of thoroughness, efficiency and good workmanship that have
contributed much to his success in his individual operations as a contractor
and builder and as a reliable and enterprising business man. He was identified
with contracting and building in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
early in 1919 he visited Miami and became so deeply impressed with the manifold
attractions and prospects of this fine little Florida city that he forthwith
sent for his family to join him there for the establishing of a permanent home.
	Since coming to Miami Mr. Merrill has with characteristic energy and 
enterprise become actively and extensively engaged in constructive business as 
a contractor and builder, and has shown  civic loyalty in connection with 
various development enterprises. He has been concerned in the building up of 
several subdivisions to the city, including the beautiful Shadow Lawn 
subdivision. He erected the fine residences of L. C. TIFFANY on Brickell
Avenue, and of ALFRED MITCHELL, and has operated largely in the construction of
modern residence buildings in Coral Gables, all of his contract work having
been of the better type of modern construction work, and a goodly number of the
best homes in Miami representing the results of his enterprise and the work of
his skilled corps of artisans. Mr. Merrill is affiliated with the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks and the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife
are active members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Miami, known as
the White Temple. Of this church his cousin, Rev. RICHARD N. MERRILL, is the
pastor, his father, Rev. PHILIP S. MERRILL, D. D., was a pastor of this church
at the time when the present fine edifice was erected, and is now pastor of the
Methodist Church at Sebring, this state. He previously held a number of
important pastoral charges, including that of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church in the City of Omaha, Nebraska.
	Mr. Merrill wedded Miss ELSIE C. ROWLAND, of Bangor, Pennsylvania, and
they have two children: WALTER S. and ALFRED ROWLAND.


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