Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — MERRIAM’S RECORD-MAKING WORK AS DIRECTOR OF CENSUS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MERRIAM’S RECORD-MAKING WORK AS DIRECTOR OF CENSUS.

William Rush Merriam, director of the census, who has beaten all records in closing up the statistics of the twelfth census, was appointed to the post of director in April, 1899. Few men, a Washington correspondent declares, could have undertaken this work with better ability than the former Governor of Minnesota. In his varied career he has been hanker, business man, agriculturist, legislator, educator and statesman. Mr. Merriam is a native of New Y'ork and is 53 years old. He removed to St. Patti when a lad.

WILLIAM R. MERRIAM.