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I. J. MERRITT.2
About seventeen years ago he built the hotel known to our old residents-as the Merritt House, which was one of the finest in this part of the country when completed. One cold night, fourteen or fifteen years since, the flames seized it and made ashes of the entire building. Then he went to South: Lyon and became a farmer. After a time he went to Lakeview to live, so-as to be near his daughter. There he remained until about two years since,.
when he came back to his old camping ground, —Greenville. He was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, under whose auspices he was buried. Mr. Merritt has left a wife and a daughter, by a former marriage, and many friends who unite in mourning his departure.
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