William Henry Merrill
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William Henry Merrill (December 29, 1868 – September 17, 1923)[1] was an American electrical engineer who founded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in 1894.
Merrill was born December 29, 1868, in Warsaw, New York. He was the son of William Henry Merrill Jr. (1840–1907), an editorial writer of the Boston Herald, and Flora Agnes Judd (1842–1880). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1889. In 1897 he married Bessie A. Henderson (1872–1956); they had five children. He was a member of the Midday and University clubs of Chicago and of the Sigma Chi college fraternity. He died on September 17, 1923, at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His burial was held at the Merrill Plot at Warsaw Cemetery in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York.
