1st President of the Territorial University of Washington
In office 1861–1863
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
William Edward Barnard
Personal details
Born
Asa Shinn Mercer
(1839-06-06)June 6, 1839 Princeton, Illinois
Died
August 10, 1917(1917-08-10) (aged 78) Buffalo, Wyoming
Alma mater
Franklin College
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 Island in Lake Washington and Mercer Street in Seattle are named not for Asa, but rather his brother Thomas.[1]
Seattle Public Schools operates Asa Mercer International Middle School in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
^Warren, James (October 9, 2001). "Seattle at 150: Mercer brothers imprinted family name on the city". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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...
United States to the Seattle area in the 1860s at the invitation of AsaMercer. Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle, wanted to "import" women to the...
for the old building, which will be fully operational starting in 2012. Mercer School. This building was at Fourth Avenue N. and Valley Street near the...
Banditti of the Plains is a book written by AsaMercer about the Johnson County War in Wyoming, United States. The title of the book was taken from a now-forgotten...
April 3, 1970. It was loosely based on AsaMercer's efforts in the 1860s to import marriageable women (the Mercer Girls) from the East Coast cities of the...
Mercer Middle School is the name of several schools in the United States: AsaMercer Middle School, a school of the Seattle School District in Seattle...
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Regents of the University of Washington Formation November 4, 1861 (1861-11-04) First holder AsaMercer Salary $714,300 Website Office of the President...
illustrator for Seattle Star; teacher at Art Students League AsaMercer – man behind the Mercer Girls, a model for the TV series Here Come the Brides Robert...
television western set in 1864 and inspired by the actual Mercer Girls project started by AsaMercer to bring women from the eastern United States to the Pacific...
Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946) is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence...
television shows. The Banditti of the Plains, written in 1894 by witness AsaMercer, is the earliest record of the Johnson County War. The book was suppressed...
surgeon Charles Penrose, who served as the group's doctor, as well as AsaMercer, the editor of the WSGA's newspaper, and a newspaper reporter for the...
southern Sumatra.[citation needed] AsaMercer travels from Seattle to the U.S. East Coast, and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the...
first class offering was a primary school (elementary school) taught by AsaMercer, and for some years it was jointly supervised by the newly formed Seattle...
song about the Johnson County War. It was first recorded in a book by AsaMercer entitled The Banditti of the Plains. It was then depicted in the 1980...
hard-drinking, mistook her for the promised ship full of brides that AsaMercer was supposed to be bringing from the east coast. Supposedly a tug, Cyrus...
Schuyler Colfax (R-Indiana) Congress: 40th January 6 – AsaMercer and a number of new "Mercer Girls" sail from Massachusetts for the West Coast, arriving...
Brides for Seven Brothers, and loosely based upon the true story of AsaMercer's efforts in the 1860s to relocate single women from the East Coast to...
captures the port of Savannah, Georgia. AsaMercer travels from Seattle to the U.S. East Coast and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the...
Burnell joined him in Seattle. Hiram Burnett arranged passage for them with AsaMercer. He was educated in the public schools of the town of Southborough, Massachusetts...