John Merrill & Company
This horn merchant was started in 1817 by Samuel Merrill (1790-1868), who was the son of a gardener. By 1821, he was a haft presser in Stag’s Head Yard in Old Haymarket. By 1837, after a spell as a shopkeeper in Cheney Row, he had joined Thomas Jarvis as a haft and scale presser and bone dealer in Holly Street. During the 1840s, this firm became Merrill, Jarvis & Merrill, with the addition of John Merrill (Samuel’s son). This ended in 1852, when John Merrill & Co appeared in ....
