Ralph E. Meras Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: MERAS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


Page 1266

     RALPH E. MERAS, treasurer and general manager of the Ralph E.
Meras Company of Exeter, dealers in house furnishings, was born in Dover ,
Me., February 26, 1877, son of Fernando and Margaret Ellen (Manning)
Meras. The .father, a native of Spain, was well known as a merchant and
real estate owner, and was also engaged in farming during his latter years.
His wife, of old New England stock, was born in Hope, Me. Both are now
deceased and are buried at Dover, Me. Their children were: Florence J.;
Remona, wife of John H. Green; Emma 0., wife of Eben Merchant; Leonor,
wife of Leonard Wilkinson; and Ralph E.
     Ralph E. Meras began his education in the common schools of Dover ,
Me., subsequently attended the high school, and later Foxcroft Academy,
Camden, Me., High School, Hebron Academy (Me.), and the Phillips Exeter
Academy. While attending the Phillips Academy, he started his present busi-
ness which is an incorporated concern, with Charles C. Smith, of Boston,
president, and Walter Clyde Spaulding, of Exeter, secretary. He has been
very successful and this concern is now one of the largest business houses in
Exeter. 
     Mrs. Meraswas Ada L. Frye, of Camden, Me., daughter of Fred P. Frye,
whose wife was in maidenhood Sarah Clara Waters Carleton Smiley, grand-
daughter Major Moses Carleton. Mr. and Mrs. Meras have three children:
Norman E., Halford Frye, and Margaret L.  Mr. Meras is best known as a
prohibitionist, and his family attend the Christian Science Church.

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