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Article: MERCER BROTHERS IMPRINTED FAMILY NAME ON THE CITY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 9, 2001
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Byline: JAMES R. WARRENSpecial to the P-I
Twenty wagons pulled out of Princeton, Ill., in April 1852, carrying settlers whose names would someday become engraved in Seattle's history - a clergyman, Daniel Bagley, and a future banker, Dexter Horton.
By October of that year, only the leader of the group had arrived at the Puget Sound - after suffering the loss of his wife along the rugged trail and leaving his children behind in Salem, Ore.
But once Thomas Mercer arrived in Seattle, his family's name became forever entwined in the business, educational and social fabric of the city.
Thomas Mercer, the oldest son of Aaron and Jane ...