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English: Asa Mercer   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Asa Mercer
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Handwritten on verso of image: 1st President, U. of W., Asa Shinn Mercer, 1861-1863 PH Coll 1512.2a

Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1918) was hired as the first instructor and was therefore the first president of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1864. He was responsible for a plan to bring the Mercer Girls to Washington Territory in 1864 from Lowell, Massachusetts. The young women were to work as teachers and served to increase the number of marriageable women in a Territory populated chiefly by young bachelors. Asa Mercer married one of the "Mercer Girls," Annie E. Stephens, on July 15, 1866.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle; College presidents--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Subjects (LCSH): Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn), 1839-1917
Depicted place Seattle
Date between 1857 and 1867
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
102
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English: Portraits Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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File:Asa Mercer, the first President of the University of Washington (5018161556).jpg
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POR0106

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