Elliott Merrick

[1] Elliott Tucker Merrick III was born into an affluent family in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University.

[1][2] He worked at his father's firm, The National Lead Company, for a year before deciding he wanted a more outdoor-oriented life.

[2] He took a job as a teacher at the remote Grenfell Mission (a medical missionary station) at Indian Harbour, Labrador.

He was later employed by the United States Forest Service in Asheville, North Carolina for 22 years, working as a science editor and publications officer.

[1] During the last years of his life Merrick was close friend with the outdoor writer Lawrence Millman, who wrote a short biographical remembrance in 2020.