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MERRICK, DR. MARCUS (deceased); born in Massachusetts, 1800; married Miss Minerva Shipman, 1831. She was born in Canada, 1811. They located in this city in 1851, where they purchased a tract of twenty-eight acres of land, on Chestnut and 3d streets, and erected their comfortable and substantial residence, now occupied by the Dr’s. widow. He put in cultivation about five acres, principally in, fruit. The doctor sold about twenty-five acres of land for $23,000, during or about the close of the war, leaving three acres for their homestead. He passed into the spirit land, July, 1876, where he is now enjoying the rewards of a well-spent lifetime upon earth. His widow, Mrs. Minerva Merrick, is devoting the closing days of her time upon earth to the laudable and truly Christian duty of relieving and assisting the poor and needy, from the surplus of the fortune left her by her late husband.