"Merrillan" came from the use of "Merrill &", the beginning of many of the businesses in the village when it was first started in 1870. Leander G. and Benjamin H. Merrill were its founders and involved in many firms in the logging and railroading town.

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[Source: Gard, Robert and L.G. Sorden. Romance of Wisconsin Place Names. (New York, October House 1968)Wisconsin Place Names book]