Randolph R. Merrick Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

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

Page 1216

  RANDOLPH R. MERRICK, superintendent of the finishing depart-
ment of the Derry Shoe Company, has been a resident of this town since 
1872. He was born in Litchfield, N. H., May 2, 1847, a son of Jonathan,L. and
Nancie C. (Moss) Merrick. When he was three years old his mother died
and his father moved to Atkinson, N. H., where the subject of this 
sketch spent his boyhood days. He was educated in the Atkinson Academy 
and on completing his schooling became connected with the shoe 
manufacturing industry and for twenty years was superintendent in the Pillsbury 
factory at Derry. He then retired and for awhile was unoccupied, but, 
not satisfied to lead an idle life, he subsequently accepted his 
present position with the Derry Shoe Company, which he has held for about two 
years. He is also a trustee of the Derry Savings Bank and is interested in 
several other business enterprises in this vicinity. He is past master of St. 
Mark's Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,

Page 1219 

and past noble grand of Echoe Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Religiously he 
affiliates with the Universalist church.
  Mr. Merrick as  public spirited citizen has taken an active interest 
in the welfare of the town, which he served in the office of moderator 
for twelve years. He was also for four years a representative in the 
State Legislature.
   He was married, July 4, 1871, to Miss Lottie Copp, of Harnpstead, N. 
H., the Copp family being one of the oldest in Rockingham County.He and 
his wife are the parents of two children; Arthur W ., who is foreman of 
the stock room in the Emerson Pennington factory, and Mrs. Lottie 
Derkee, a widow who resides with her parents.

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