Charles W. Merriman
Charles Weare Merriman (June 19, 1856May 19, 1930) was an American physician, educator, and Republican politician from the Beloit, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1897, representing southern Rock County. Biography Charles W. Merriman was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, in June 1856 and lived most of his life in that city. He was educated in the Beloit public schools and graduated from Beloit high school in 1874. He received his M.A. from Beloit College in 1879 and was hired as principal of the Danville Academy in Danville, Quebec. After a year, he returned to Wisconsin, where he was employed as principal of the high school at Evansville, Wisconsin, for five years. He then returned to Beloit, where he was principal of the Beloit high school for 1885 and 1886. He then went to medical school at Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, where he graduated in 1889. After graduation, he practiced medicine for a year at Wabash, Indiana, then returned to Beloit, in 1890, where he maintained his own medical practice. That year he was also elected superintendent of schools in Beloit, holding office for the next seven years. During those years, he also served on