Gentleman Farmer
Centurion, 1918–1927
Born 4 December 1847 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 22 January 1927 in Washington, District of Columbia
Buried Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Proposed by George William Douglas and F. LeRoy Satterlee
Elected 7 December 1918 at age seventy-one
Century Memorial
Douglas Merritt was a frequent visitor at the Century’s lunch-table. A gentleman of the old school, he had long ago retired from professional occupations to lead a country life at Rhinebeck, where he achieved the somewhat unusual distinction of managing a large farm at a profit. He was a man of varied tastes and interests. His farm stock were of the best; in diocesan affairs he was always active, and his modest but judicious collections qualified him as an amateur of arts and letters.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1928 Century Association Yearbook
