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Eli T. Merriman, the first physician in San Marcos, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, in 1815, and graduated from Yale University in 1833. He received his medical degree at Pennsylvania and Vermont Academy of Medicine. He married Jenette Bartholomew, also of Bristol. He opened his first practice in Texas sometime after 1838 and in 1846 enlisted in Capt. Henry E. McCulloch 's ranger company, in which he served during the Mexican War