Charles Edward Merrill Biography

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NAME: Charles Edward Merrill
OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
BIRTH DATE: October 19, 1885
DEATH DATE: October 06, 1956
EDUCATION: Amherst College, University of Michigan Law School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Green Cove Springs, Florida
PLACE OF DEATH: Southhampton, New York
Full Name: Charles Edward Merrill
AKA: Charles Merrill
AKA: Charles E. Merrill

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Charles Edward Merrill was an American investment banker who co-founded Merrill Lynch & Company and arranged the merger that created the Safeway food chain.

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Charles Edward Merrill was born on October 19, 1885, in Green Cove Springs, Florida. He worked at several New York City firms before meeting Edmund C. Lynch and co-forming Merrill Lynch & Company in 1915. Through investing, Merrill created the Safeway food chain. Privy to the stock market crash of 1929, he divested his holdings before the Great Depression. He died in 1956.