Charles E. Merrill
Charles Edward Merrill (born October 19, 1885 in Green Cove Springs , Florida - † October 6, 1956 in Southampton , New York ) was an American stockbroker and investment banker one of the founders of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Life
He was the son of the doctor and pharmacy owner Dr. Charles Merrill and Octavia Merrill, b. Wilson. He spent his early childhood at his birthplace before the family moved to Knoxville , Tennessee in 1898 and then to Jacksonville , Florida that same year . After the school he attended there burned down in the great fire of 1901, he was sent to a high school operated by John B. Stetson University , where he stayed until 1903 and then moved to Worcester Academy for his senior year. After two years of training at Amherst College , he attended the University of Michigan Law School from 1906 to 1907. He then worked from 1907 to 1909 at Patchogue-Plymouth Mills and from 1909 to 1913 at George H. Burr & Co. in New York City . On January 6, 1914, he founded his own bank, Charles E. Merrill & Co. Six months later, his friend Edmund C. Lynch joined him, so that the name of the bank in 1915 changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co. (initially with a comma ) was changed.
As one of the first Wall Street - bankers he told the Black Thursday of 1929 requires the most momentous stock market crash in history.
literature
- Edwin J. Perkins: Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-5210-2779-3 .
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| SURNAME | Merrill, Charles E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merrill, Charles Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American investment banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Green Cove Springs , Florida |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1956 |
| Place of death | Southampton , New York |