Test your knowledge of Samuel Merritt University and our community with fun Centennial Trivia!
- During Dr. Merritt's days in Oakland, he and his close friend Dr. Aurelius H. Agard could often be found relaxing on the veranda of the Merritt home philosophizing and making plans for?
A hospital in Oakland with benevolent features to care for "those worthy and valuable citizens" not eligible for tax-supported services, their care to be available "free of all costs and expense" or on a part-pay basis.
- Did Dr. Merritt live to realize his greatest dream?
No. The great philanthropist never lived to realize his greatest dream.
- How old was Dr. Merritt at the time of his death? And what was the cause of death?
He died on August 17, 1980, at the age of 68. Death resulted from uremic poisoning, complicated by diabetes, and by the result of a fall from his buggy five years earlier.
- Where is Dr. Merritt buried?
In Mountain View Cemetry in Oakland.
- What was the value of Dr. Merritt's estate and who was it left in trust to?
His two million dollar estate was left in trust to his sister, Mrs. Seward Garcelon (neé Catharine Merritt).
- What was the condition of Dr. Merritt's trust?
That his sister, Catharine, in turn leave the means whereby his dream of building and endowing a hospital in Oakland would come to pass.