- Asa Mercer - Wikipedia
Asa Shinn Mercer (June 6, 1839 – August 10, 1917) was the first president of the Territorial University of Washington and a member of the Washington State Senate He is remembered primarily for his role in three milestones of the old American West: the founding of the University of Washington, the Mercer Girls, and the Johnson County War
- Mercer, Asa Shinn - TSHA
Explore the life of Asa Shinn Mercer, the first president of the University of Washington, his controversial immigration plan, and his impact on the American West as a publicist and newspaper publisher
- Asa Shinn Mercer - Research OnLine
Asa Mercer, age 25, the newly elected president of the University of Washington in Seattle, stood at a podium in the Unitarian church in Lowell, Massachusetts, and told those in attendance how Seattle, in Washington Territory, was a fast growing town and was in need of educated ladies, of good moral standing, to work as teachers
- Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1917) - Find a Grave Memorial
Asa Mercer joined his older brother in Seattle in 1859 shortly after graduating from college in Ohio From 1861-1863 he was the first president of the University of Washington After he left the university he decided to personally remedy the lack of single women in Seattle by going to get some
- The Mercer Girls: When New England Girls Went West to Find Husbands
On Jan 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass , about a land of opportunity Seattle, said Asa Mercer, desperately needed teachers, and he urged the young women to return with him to the Pacific Northwest
- Asa Mercer and The Banditti of the Plains - WyoHistory. org
Frontier newspaperman Asa Mercer began the controversial Northwestern Live Stock Journal in Cheyenne in the 1880s, backing stockmen’s interests But when prominent cattlemen-vigilantes invaded Johnson County in 1892, he attacked them stridently in his paper and later in The Banditti of the Plains, the book for which he’s best remembered
- Original Mercer Girls
Asa Shinn Mercer addressed the group assembled in the Mechanic’s Hall at Lowell, Massachusetts, one early spring evening in 1864 He hoped to entice the attendees to the Washington territories His selling points were the beauty of the barely settled towns along the water’s edge and the high wages a young lady could earn teaching school or
- Mercer Girls - HistoryLink. org
The first "Mercer Girls" were 11 young women brought from Lowell, Massachusetts, to the Washington Territory on May 16, 1864, by Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1917) Mercer brought a second group of Mercer Girls, or "Mercer's Belles," on May 28, 1866
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