Marriner W. Merrill

Marriner Wood Merrill was a pioneering settler of Cache Valley and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints .

Merrill was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, the tenth of the thirteen children born to Sarah Ann Reynolds and Nathan Merrill. The family farmed, and Merrill later wrote of not having any opportunities of even a common school education. Merrill left Sackville and worked briefly as a cook on a fishing schooner based in Boston, Massachusetts, before returning on word of his fathers fatal fall into a tidal marsh in May 1851. Merrill assisted in farm work in Sackville after his return.

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