Edwin T. Merrick was born in
Wilbraham, Massachusetts on July 9, 1809. He moved to Ohio, where he was admitted to the Bar of Ohio in 1833, and then in 1838 moved to
Clinton, Louisiana. There, he was appointed as a district judge, and upon the resignation of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Slidell in 1855, Merrick was elected to that office. He died in New Orleans on January 12, 1897. ==References==