Ohio Wesleyan University issued the following announcement on Dec. 8.
A Great, Great, Great Gift - Relative of Ohio Wesleyan’s Second President Donates Portraits to University
Oil paintings of former Ohio Wesleyan University President and First Lady Frederick and Fidelia Merrick soon will grace the campus building named in their honor.
The portraits, created in 1835 by acclaimed American portraitist Joseph Whiting Stock, are being donated to the University by Barry Francis of Toronto, Ontario – Frederick Merrick’s great, great, great nephew. Francis’s mother, the late Helen Frances Merrick, was a 1941 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan.
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Original source can be found here.
Source: Ohio Wesleyan University
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