Norman Merrill, b. 1851 Columbia County, Oregon
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 245.
MERRILL, HON. NORMAN, of Clatskanie, was born in Columbia County, Oregon, December 25, 1851, and has always been engaged in lumbering and logging, as well as fruit growing, farming and stock raising. In 1879 he was elected County Treasurer. In 1892 he was elected to the legislature, and is now again the Republican nominee to that body.
-Tony Larson