John Merrick (insurance)

John Merrick (insurance)

John Merrick (1859-1919) was an African-American entrepreneur born in Clinton, North Carolina who founded the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Merrick was born into slavery and raised by a single mother. He began working in business and entrepreneurship early with barbershops, and he involved the community in his businesses. He eventually founded not only the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, but many other companies, such as banks, in the Raleigh-Durham area.

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*Citation
last =Andrews
first =Robert McCants
title =John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch.
place=Durham, N.C.
publisher =Press of the Seeman Printery
year =1920
url =http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/andrews/menu.html
id =

The above is available online through Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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