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Isaac Elmer Merritt
1839 - 1919 (80 years)-
Name Isaac Elmer Merritt Birth 11 May 1839 New York 
Gender Male Death 9 Nov 1919 Burial Lockport, Niagara, New York Person ID I46640 Scudder Last Modified 5 Mar 2013
Father Isaac Merritt, b. 30 Oct 1802, Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jerssy d. 2 Jun 1853, Niagra county, New York (Age 50 years) Mother Delilah Wisner, b. 27 Aug 1813, Olcott, Niagra, New York d. 18 Apr 1899, Olcott, Niagra, New York (Age 85 years) Marriage 29 Sep 1830 Family ID F16599 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Jane Mann, b. 14 Sep 1843, West Somerset, Niagra, New York d. 6 Aug 1921, LaGrange, Cook, Illinois (Age 77 years) Marriage Abt 1864 Children 1. Lewis Gilbert Merritt, b. 28 Nov 1865, Lockport, Niagara, New York d. 28 Jan 1962, Lockport, Niagara, New York (Age 96 years)2. May E. Merritt, b. Jan 1868, New York d. Yes, date unknown3. Herbert M. Merritt, b. Abt 1872, New York d. Yes, date unknown4. Grace Agnes Merritt, b. Jul 1880, New York d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F16600 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Mar 2024
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Notes - In 1884. Isaac incorporated the I. E. Merritt Machinery Company, with himself as president, and George W Mann as secretary. In 1894 the stone machine shop and foundry on Market Street, where the company operated, were destroyed by fire. There was little left except the good will of the business, to which the sons of Isaac, Louis G and Herbert M Merritt. succeeded as a partnership. In 1901 it was again incorporated, this time as the Merritt Manufacturing Company. In that year the new site on Michigan street was purchased and the first building erected. This company traces its birth back to the year 1851 and has been a continous customer of the Niagara County National Bank since 1865, a period of 56 years.
The president of the company at the time of this article was Ericsson H Merritt, and the secretary, Seymour G Neubecker. On Jan. 1, 1920, the Merritt brothers withdrew from its board of directors and formed an engineering and selling organization for the purpose of supplying complete machinery equipment to the increasing number of veneer and plywood plants. Besides taking the output of the Merritt Manuf. Co. the Merritt Engineering and Sales Co., is supplying hydraulic persses, glue-room machinery, motors. etc.
- In 1884. Isaac incorporated the I. E. Merritt Machinery Company, with himself as president, and George W Mann as secretary. In 1894 the stone machine shop and foundry on Market Street, where the company operated, were destroyed by fire. There was little left except the good will of the business, to which the sons of Isaac, Louis G and Herbert M Merritt. succeeded as a partnership. In 1901 it was again incorporated, this time as the Merritt Manufacturing Company. In that year the new site on Michigan street was purchased and the first building erected. This company traces its birth back to the year 1851 and has been a continous customer of the Niagara County National Bank since 1865, a period of 56 years.