J. Warren MerrillJoseph Warren Merrill was a Massachusetts politician who served as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as the Chair of the Colby College Board of Trustees from 1885 until his death in 1889.Personal lifeJ. Warren Merrill was born on December 13, 1819, in South Hampton, New Hampshire, to Nathan and Sally Merrill. He married Hannah Brown Wattson in 1848, with whom he had two daughters and four sons. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1889.