San Diego County Biographies
  
C. C. MERRILL

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superintendent and stockholder of the Southern California Coal and Clay Co., 
manufacturers of sewer pipe, water pipe, fire brick, fire-proof building 
material. John Dolbeer is president of the company; William Mugan, secretary, 
and George Gray, vice-president. The works are at Terra Cotta, three and 
one-half miles southwest of Elsinore. This plant cost $50,000, and was put in 
operation in January, 1888. They now run three kilns; capacity of each kiln, 
$600.  When running at fall capacity they run ten kilns per month. They ship to 
Los Angeles, San Diego, and all the towns of southern California. The coal which 
they have discovered
will be opened within 300 yards of the factory. The product of their factory is 
termed Vitrified Salt-Glazed Pipe. Mr. Merrill was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1849. 
His father, C. J. Merrill, made the first sewer pipe in Ohio, and is now the 
oldest manufacturer living in the United States. He is also the inventor of the 
machinery used in its manufacture. His father was a native of Ohio, and his 
mother, Fanny L. (Follett) Merrill, also. The subject of this sketch was raised 
in this business, and is well informed on all matters in connection with it. He 
was the superintendent of the pipe works at Los Angeles, the clay for which is 
got at Elsinore. Mr. F. F. Merrill, a brother of Mr. C. C. Merrill, is now 
superintendent of the California Pipe Works at Los Angeles. Mr. Merrill was 
married in 1870 to Miss Emma J. Le Sure. She was born in Alton, Illinois. They 
have four children, two boys and two girls, viz.: Edward L., C. C., Jr., 
Florence L., all born in Alton, Illinois, and Emma Blanche, born in Mount 
Pulaski, Illinois. Mr. Merrill, when twenty-one years of age, made application 
to become a Master Mason, and was accepted. He was secretary of his lodge while 
he resided in that part of the country. He is a very active business man, of 
fine ability.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  113-114