History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ty of thestate is more imperative than that of takingcare of the weak and helpless. This servicemay well be regarded as a distinguishingcharacteristic of a Christian community, forin no other system of religion is this humaneduty made obligatory, or even general is the recognition of the necessityof this work of caring for the unfortunateand helpless that a trained class of educatedmen has arisen who are experts
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ty of thestate is more imperative than that of takingcare of the weak and helpless. This servicemay well be regarded as a distinguishingcharacteristic of a Christian community, forin no other system of religion is this humaneduty made obligatory, or even general is the recognition of the necessityof this work of caring for the unfortunateand helpless that a trained class of educatedmen has arisen who are experts in the specialfield, and whose services are indispensableto the well-being of these wards of the of the pioneers in this noble work in thestate of Minnesota is Galen A. Merrill, thesuperintendent of the State Tublic School forDependent Children at Owatonna. He organ-ized and opened the institution in 188G undertlie law passed by the legislature of 1885, andhe has maiuiged it under the direction of theBoard of Control since tliat time. Duringthis period it has received and provided fortwo thousand two hundred children. Mr. niSTORV OF THE GUKAT A. MKKUILL. Merrill was bom in Kalamuzoo couuty, Mich.,December 28, 185!). His father was GeorgePhelps Merrill, a Connecticut farmer whocaine to Michigan early in manhood and set-tled on a farm in Kalamazoo county. Hiswifes maiden name was Sabra Wallace. Shewas a native of New York. (Jalen, havingpassed through the ])ublic schools of hisnative state, took up a course of privatestudy, and i)ursued that of medicine for twoyears, after which he accepted a position inthe public schools of Ludington, Mich., wherehe taught for two years. He was then ap-pointed assistant superintendent of the Mich-igan State Public School for Dependent Chil-dren, established at Coldwater. After serv-ing in this capacity for two years, he wasmade the state agent of the institution. Itwas his duty to visit the children who hadIxen i)l
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