1863 *
HENRY SMITH MERCHANT was born in Nassau, N. Y., March 14, 1837, and died in the same village, Feb. 9, 1866. He entered College from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., with the Class of 1861, but left early in the Senior year, and went to Minnesota for relief from consumptive symptoms. He returned to New Haven in 1862, and entered the Class with which he graduated. He then studied law in the University of Albany, where he took his degree in November, 1864 In the spring of 1865, he connected himself with the Quartermaster's Department of the Army of Tennessee, located at Chattanooga, but his health soon obliged him to retire. He was afterward in the Law office of E. S. Strait, Esq., of Nassau, but left this business on account of his health. He died after an illness of seven weeks, the immediate cause being an ulceration of the bronchial tubes. He was not married.
