New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . y in those of the great railroadcompanies. No security is offered by the firm until afterthe most searching investigation into its legality and thecondition of the company responsible for its payment. ARTHUR LEWIS MERRIAM. Arthur Lewis Merriam, Vice-President of tiie RepublicanClub, was born on May i, 1849, in Oswego, this State. Hisfather, Isaac L. Merriam, the well known inanufacturer, wasa New Hampshire man and the family, one of the oldest inNew England, is able to trace its ancestry in a direct lineback to the Mayflower
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . y in those of the great railroadcompanies. No security is offered by the firm until afterthe most searching investigation into its legality and thecondition of the company responsible for its payment. ARTHUR LEWIS MERRIAM. Arthur Lewis Merriam, Vice-President of tiie RepublicanClub, was born on May i, 1849, in Oswego, this State. Hisfather, Isaac L. Merriam, the well known inanufacturer, wasa New Hampshire man and the family, one of the oldest inNew England, is able to trace its ancestry in a direct lineback to the Mayflower Pilgrims. Arthur Lewis received an elementary education in the|)ublic schools of his native city, after which he was sent tothe Eagleswood Military Academy, in Perth Amboy, N. J.,from which institution he graduated in the class of leaving the Academy he entered the wholesale hard-ware house of Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co., wherehe remained until 1872, traveling for the firm most of thetime, after which he entered the manufacturing establishment. AKTHlK LEWIS MERRIAM. known as the Ames Iron Works, of which his father is oneof the ])rincipal ])roprietors. He was admitted to partner-ship in this concern in 1883, and under his able manage-ment the New York branch of the i)usiness, of whichhe assumed charge, has grown to large Merriam takes a keen interest in politics, and is afirm believer in protection to American industry and joined the Republican Club in 1882, and since then hasfilled ahiiost every office connected with it In 1890 he waselected chairman of the House Committee, member of theExecutive Committee in 1891, and in 1892, on the deathof Lucius Ashley, Vice-President. He was chairman of theLincoln Dinner Committee in 1891, an affair which wasbrilliantly successful, and it is acknowledged on all sidesthat whether in social, political or commercial matters Mr. 66 NEIV YORK, THE METROPOLIS. Merriam displays executive ability of a hi
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