Edward Eleazer Merritt (February 3, 1845 – August 3, 1895) was an American newspaper publisher and Republican politician.
[1] While living in La Crosse in 1864, he answered President Lincoln's call for "100-day volunteers" for the Union Army to finish the American Civil War.
[3] After the war, Merritt returned to La Crosse, but moved to Neillsville, Wisconsin, in Clark County, in 1867.
He started the Clark County Journal with J. S. Dore, working as associate editor, but left after a few months and moved to St. Louis, Missouri.
He returned to Neillsville in the fall of that year, where he started another newspaper, the Clark County Republican.