Myra K. Merrick was born in 1825 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England to mother Elizabeth née Ball and Richard King.
[1] She attended Central Medical College in Rochester, New York and worked as a nurse at the Hydropathic Institute to gain more experience in the field of medicine prior to graduation.
She did relocate to Lorain County during the Civil War to treat wounded soldiers before helping to establish the Cleveland Homeopathic College for Women in 1867.
[1] Many prominent Cleveland female physicians graduated from this program: Dr. Sarah Marcus, Dr. Josephine Danforth Gillette, Kate Parsons, and Dr. Martha Canfield.
[5] Impoverished women and children could receive care there, while female doctors who were often shunned from other hospitals could gain valuable medical experience.