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		The Mercer Girls or Mercer Maids were an 1860s project of Asa Shinn Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle, who decided to "import" women to the Pacific Northwest.
		Mercer proceeded to travel to Boston and later to the textile town of Lowell.
		By the time Mercer was to depart with his new charges on January 6, 1868, he had fewer than 100 recruits, when he had promised five times that many.
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		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.
		Mercer Island in Lake Washington and Mercer Street in Seattle are named not for Asa, but rather his brother Thomas.
		As Mercer came to see the clearly underhanded treatment of individual ranchers by the cartels, he began to write more scathing accounts of the events that were unfolding on the open range.
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	Asa Shinn Mercer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asa Mercer was the youngest of 14 children born to Aaron and Jane (Dickerson) Mercer, who had been married in 1812 in Harrison County, Ohio.
		Asa had a plan to go back to the New England states where, due to the war, there was an abundance of young, single women.
		Asa and Annie were married at the Methodist Protestant Church in Seattle by Rev. Daniel Bagley.
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	\| Book Review \| Oregon Historical Quarterly, 105.2 \| The History Cooperative
		Asa spent some of his early years in Seattle, where he claimed (in somewhat of an exaggeration, according to Lawrence Woods) to have been the first president of the University of Washington, but he left more of a mark in other regions, primarily Texas and Wyoming, his last two states of residence.
		Mercer was no exception, and his newspapers in Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming were openly associated with causes and organizations generally related to agriculture.
		Mercer sided with the victims of the lawless violence, resulting in a boycott of his newspaper and financial ruin.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ohq/105.2/br_5.html (824 words)

	Arthur H. Clark Co. - Book Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mercer's career in the West encompassed far more than involvement in the Johnson County War, and the story of "Mercer's Belles," His life is for the first time given full consideration in this excellent new biography.
		Mercer's Belles: Appointed as Immigration Commissioner for Washington Territory in 1863, he undertook the heavy responsibility of trying to correct the 9 to 1 imbalance of men to women.
		Big Horn Basin: Mercer finished his long life on the western slopes of the Big Horn Mountains, and for him to finish a lifetime of adventure in such a quiet place was almost anticlimactic.
	www.ahclark.com /bookdetail.asp?book_id=4085 (613 words)

	ASA SHINN MERCER: Western Promoter and Newspaperman, 1839-1917 Montana: The Magazine of Western History - Find Articles
		Mercer retaliated by writing Banditti of the Plains, a partisan and factually suspect book about the conflict, but his newspapering days were over.
		Somehow Mercer found the means for a final incarnation, this time as a successful cattle rancher in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, whose natural riches he would promote until shortly before his death in 1917 at age seventy-eight.
		Gaps in Mercer's chronology and missing motives for some of his actions may frustrate an attentive reader at times, but the book offers fascinating insights into frontier journalism and the vagaries of pioneer enterprise, and Mercer's skill at reinventing himself keeps one turning the pages.
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	HistoryLink Essay: Mercer Girls
		Mercer explained that as the community grew there were more children of school age but few to teach them.
		Asa Mercer invited the women to go West with him to a place where both jobs and men were abundant.
		Mercer for his efforts on behalf of the Washington Territory, the reception was adjourned to the grounds of the University where everyone beheld a beautiful western sunset.
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		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.
		Mercer became well-known throughout the West as a publisher, and eventually found his way to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he published the Northwestern Livestock Journal, a public relations vehicle for the moneyed cattle interests.
		As Mercer came to see the clearly underhanded treatment of individual ranchers by the cartels, he began to write more scathing accounts of the events that were unfolding on the open range.
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	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Asa Shinn Mercer, publicist and newspaper publisher, was born around 1839.
		Mercer hoped that the women would increase the female population of the territory and by so doing provide wives for the male settlers and begin permanent settlements.
		Once his intentions were revealed, the women became known as the "Mercer Girls." Shortly after this controversial plan, Mercer left Washington and moved south to Oregon, where he hoped to promote trade with East Coast merchants.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/fme22.html (399 words)

	Our Back Pages, June 95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asa Shinn Mercer helped build the University of Washington with his bare hands, personally recruited students, was the school's first teacher and its first president.
		Undeterred, Mercer set about another enterprise--bringing "marriageable maidens" from Boston to the Puget Sound area after "the alert and observing young man noted that the communities on Puget Sound were sadly in need of women," according to one account.
		On Aug. 10, 1917, Mercer died at the home of a daughter in the northern Wyoming town of Buffalo.
	www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/june95/asa_mercer.html (543 words)

	HeraldNet: Marysville author shares joys and pains of her childhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her grandfather, Asa Shinn Mercer, was the first president and teacher at the University of Washington.
		Mercer helped build the UW and recruited students, but he is more famous for bringing shiploads of women, the Mercer Girls, around Cape Horn to the then wild, and mostly womanless, Puget Sound area in the 1860s.
		She said Mercer recruited 11 ladies to come to Washington Territory to be teachers.
	heraldnet.com /stories/05/03/01/100loc_our001.cfm (664 words)

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		In 1865, therefore, the youthful president of the University of Washington, Asa Mercer, proposed to remedy this situation by inducing hundreds of 'widows and orphans' of the Civil War to move to the Northwest.
		The few girls he had taken to Washington Territory had sent word to all their friends that they might trust him implicitly, and that they could not possibly do better than come to the West, of which the writers gave glowing accounts in their letters.
		The Mercers later settled in Oregon, Texas and the Paintrock Valley in northern Wyoming, where Asa and his sons developed a farm and cattle ranch.
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	Asa Shinn Mercer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The descendants of the Mercer Girls still represent a significant portion of Seattle's citizenry.
		The Mercer Girls story formed the basis of the television show Here Come the Brides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asa_Mercer (448 words)

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	Re: William, Aaron, & Asa Shinn Mercer
		In Reply to: William, Aaron, and Asa Shinn Mercer by karen crisman
		Aaron and Jane were the parents of 14 children, including Tom, William, Aaron, Jr., and Asa Shinn.
		Also, their daughter, Rachel Mercer Vaughn joined her 3 brothers, Tom, Aaron, Asa S., in the Seattle, King Co., Wash. Territory area.
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		Asa Mercer, recruited women from the cities of the eastern US to help redress the balance of the population in the Seattle area where men out numbered women 9 to 1.
		Asa Shinn Mercer, the newly elected president of the University in Seattle, stood at a podium in the Unitarian Church in Lowell, Massachusetts to extol the virtues of Seattle and explain the territory’s need for teachers and ladies of quality.
		While Mercer was not as blatant as Jean Talon in seeking fertile women to increase the population of the Washington territory, most of the women he recruited did marry, It is this endeavour that formed the basis for the popular TV show, Here come the Brides.
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	Asa Shinn
		Asa Shinn had no opportunities for formal schooling, but by self- education, he made himself a master of English.
		He was president of the first western Conference held in Cincinnati, October 15-21, 1859.
		Asa Shinn's parents, Jonathan and Mary Clark Shinn, from the
	www.rootsweb.com /~papastor/2a/asa_shinn.htm (277 words)

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		We find that, in 1866, entrepreneur Asa Shinn Mercer traveled the country giving seminars at which he made promises of both employment and husbands to girls willing to book passage on his ship bound for Washington on the West coast.
		While his own morals were questionable, what with his charging passage fees as he saw fit, taxing items of luggage, etc., he insisted that the women remain ladies during their time aboard his ship.
		Captain Mercer had no recourse but to avow that she was, "no better than a ruined girl."
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	Cheyenne, Wyoming Encyclopedia Article @ RodeoCircuit.com (Rodeo Circuit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Johnson County War of 1892, the largest of the "range wars" of early Wyoming history.) The Cheyenne newspaper offices of
		Asa Shinn Mercer's Northwestern Livestock Journal were burned down when the paper, which was founded as a public relations vehicle for the moneyed cattle interests, began to write scathing accounts of the events that were unfolding on the open range.
		Many of the ranch owners around the city were directly involved in that range war.
	www.rodeocircuit.com /encyclopedia/Cheyenne,_Wyoming (2763 words)

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		Upon their arrival, Chief Sealth, a Native American tribal leader, whom the settlers named Seattle after, befriended the settlers.
		Several years later, in 1864, due to shortage of women in the Northwest, Asa Shinn Mercer visited the New England area with the hopes of bringing women home for the men of Seattle to marry.
		Although Mercer brought back fewer women than expected, Seattle's population had increased to 1,107 by 1870.
	www.mstp.washington.edu /location/history (387 words)

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		Asa Shinn Mercer: Western Promoter and Newspaperman 1839-1917 (Western Frontiersmen Series, 30)
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	Tomfolio.com: Americana & U.S. States, WY: History 1890 to Present
		This is a 1923 printing, of the extremely rare 1894 book written by Asa Shinn Mercer.
		This is the story of the Johnson County, Wyoming, war pitting the settlers (rustlers) against the cattle barons of the day.
		A.S. Mercer was not originally on the side of the settlers, but he felt compelled to write the story ('Banditti of the Plains', sub-titled 'The Crowning Infamy of the Ages') to tell of the tactics used by the cattle barons.
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	HistoryLink Essay:Mercer Girls
		They would join him two years later when Mercer made his second expedition (January-April 1866).
		They became teachers, as well as wives, mothers, and grandmothers, the co-founders of many of today's Puget Sound families.
		Sheet music for the theme song of Here Come The Brides, 1968
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	Cheyenne Photos IV-
		Rightly or wrongly, it has been alleged that the plans for the Johnson County War were formulated within its precincts.
		Although it should be noted that Asa Shinn Mercer in his Banditti of the Plains, or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 -- The Crowing Infamy of the Age suggests that the "invasion incubator" was former Governor Baxter's office in the Commercial Block.
		Following the Johnson County War, the Club defaulted on its bonds.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /cheyenne4a.html (1930 words)

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	The North Country Connection - September 2004
		Carli will be speaking about her research on women's organizations.
		She has researched "Asa Shinn Mercer and the Importation of Women to Seattle," "Japanese and Japanese American Women at Seabrook, New Jersey in the Post WWII Era," and "Continuing to "Do Everything: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Oregon, 1900-1945."
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	INDEX of the Annals of Wyoming - M
		Mercer (Colonel and Mrs.) 32:2:207-208, 211; 33:2:144; 34:1:76-69; 35:1:88, 94; 35:2:213; 38:1:61, 126; 43:2:167 (see also RANCHES)
		Mercer, Asa Shinn 9:3:731-732; 20:1:78; 32:2:257; 49:1:53-64; photo 65:4:20, 24-26, 28, 31-32, 36 (see also Banditti of the Plains)
		Mercer girls (see One of the Mercer Girls)
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