Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 75 Legislative Department, Twenty-Sixth District, Bullock and Macon Counties HENRY P. MERRITT, of Tuskegee, was born near Old Spring Hill, Barbour county, and is the son of M.C. and Margaret Elizabeth (Owens) Merritt and the grandson of Henry Clinton and Jackie (Green) Merritt, and of William Howard and Margaret Elizabeth (Owens) Owens, who lived first at Palmyra, Ga, and afterwards in Texas. M.C. Merritt was born in Henry county, Ga., removed to Barbour county, Ala. and served two years as a Confederate soldier. Senator Merritt was educated in the common schools of Barbour and Bullock counties, and attended one year at the Southern University, Greensboro. After leaving college, he entered the law department of the University of VA, where he took one year's course, and also a summer course; admitted to the bar Nov 30, 1983, but did not actively enter upon the practice until 1896 when he removed from Bullock County to Tuskegee. He is a Democrat; and has served as chairman of the Macon county executive committee; is a Methodist; a member of the Masons, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Red Men. On Nov 14, 1894, in Marion, Ala. he married Annie Seay, daughter of William H. and Martha King.