Merritt Fernald [Photograph]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.O.1981.31
Description
A black and white 1/4 portrait by Ramsdell & Halloran Studio of Bangor, ME. The subject is identified as Merritt Fernald. In the picture he is a bald man with mutton chops in a tuxedo and bowtie. This same photograph appears in the 1914 University of Maine yearbook, where the subject is further identified as Merritt Caldwell Fernald, Ph.D., L.L.D., and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Dr. Fernald was born in 1838 and died in 1919 in Orono. He was an accomplished educator and academic throughout his career.