Merrill lynch biography

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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Overview

As cofounder of Merrill, Lynch & Co. in , Charles E. Merrill launched a Wall Street dynasty that would long outlive him. Building on the slogan "Bring Wall Street to Main Street," he designed his business around middle-class investors, not stock exchange insiders.

By the time of his death in , his firm had offices in cities across North America, and it has continued to grow ever since, through good times and bad.

Personal Life

Charles E. Merrill was born on October 19, in Green Cove Springs, Florida, the son of Dr.

Charles and Octavia Wilson Merrill. His father, a local physician, also owned a drug store.

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As a boy, Merrill worked in his father's drug store and had a paper route. Merrill attended a preparatory school affiliated with Stetson University, and later was sent on a partial athletic scholarship to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts.

He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts from to He left Amherst witho