Jesse Merrill-- Part 5: A Teacher, Then Lawyer Before the War

From Civil War Signals.org.

General Jesse Merrill, was born in New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1836.  He was the son of James Merrill, a prominent lawyer of Union County, and a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1838.

Jesse Merrill attended  public school in New Berlin until age sixteen, then attended a year at the Tuscarora Academy in Juaniata County, Pennsylvania, after which he began teaching for four years.  he then began the study of law with his brother in New Berlin.

The following year he entered the law office of Lawson & brown in Milton, Pa., where he remained at his studies until 1859, when he was admitted to practice law in the courts of Northumberland County, Pa.,

He shortly afterward came to Lock Haven, where he has remained ever since.

--Old secesh