The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion

Creator: Henry F. W. Little
Date: 1896
Type: book
Repository: Internet Archive (Library of Congress copy, seventhregimentn96litt; Google copy, seventhregiment00littgoog)
Locator: pp. 562–564 (biographical sketch of Sergt. Otis A. Merrill); portrait plate facing p. 269
Access: Public; OCR and page images read October 12, 2026. Open online
Rights: Public domain (1896).

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C-064 — Otis Addison Merrill, architect of the Atherton stable (1883), was born at Hudson, N.H., on August 22, 1844, eldest son of Benjamin A. and Mary J. (Winn) Merrill; enlisted August 1862 in Co. H, 7th New Hampshire Volunteers, discharged a sergeant July 1865; learned carpentry at Haverhill while studying architecture; moved to Lowell in 1869; practiced architecture full-time from 1873, briefly with Charles S. Eaton; the firm Merrill & Cutler was formed in 1883. By 1896 the firm's works included the Concord (N.H.) High School, the New Bedford YMCA, Wilton (N.H.) Town Hall and, in Lowell, the First Congregational Church, Odd Fellows' building, Central Fire Station, Old Ladies' Home, the Armory and the new City Hall. A halftone portrait captioned 'Sergt. Otis A. Merrill, Co. H' faces p. 269.