A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa.
Native of North Carolina.
Removed to Kentucky 1842, then Lyons township, Mills County, Iowa in 1849, where he died at age 49.
His father (Rufus's paternal grandfather) was a Revolutionary War soldier who held rank of captain in the War of 1812.
Father of Rufus L. Merritt.
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