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Ida Merriam Dies at 92; Social Security Official

Ida Craven Merriam, 92, a retired assistant commissioner for research and statistics of the Social Security Administration, died of pneumonia April 8 at Prince George's Hospital Center. She lived in Mitchellville.

Dr. Merriam, a Philadelphia native, lived in Washington from 1936 until entering the Collington Episcopal Life Care Center in Mitchellville three years ago.

She began working in Social Security in 1936, when she joined what became the Social Security Administration's research and statistics bureau. She rose to become head of the bureau's division of coordination studies, then became assistant director of the research and statistics bureau in 1947. Dr. Merriam became ...

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