Elmer Truesdell Merrill

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Elmer Truesdell Merrill, LL.D. (1860 – 1936) was an American Latin scholar, born at Millville, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1881. Afterwards, he performed a variety of tasks and functions at an array of places.

He taught at the Massachusetts State Normal School, Westfield, Massachusetts (1882-1883), at Wesleyan University (1883-1886), at University of Southern California (1887-1888), again at Wesleyan (1888-1905) as professor of Latin language and literature, and at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1908 he became professor of Latin at the University of Chicago. In 1911, the University of St. Andrews gave him its LL.D.

In 1898-1899, he was professor, in 1899-1900, acting chairman, in 1900-1901, chairman of the work of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. After 1906 he was associate editor of Classical Philology, and in 1906-1907 he served as president of the American Philological Association. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1895.

His publications include: Poems of Catullus (1893); Fragments of Roman Satire (1897); Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny (1903); C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistularum Libri Novem (1914).