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[edit]English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly titled "The Departure"
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English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly titled "The Departure" |
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English: Photograph of a close-up of inset in illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9. Caption on image: The Departure. Text accompanying image: No more curious or more suggestive Exodus ever took place than the EXODUS OF WOMEN TO WASHINGTON TERRITORY under the leadership of Mr. ASA S. MERCER. The scheme proposed by Mr. MERCER is in every way original and praiseworthy. This gentleman, the Moses of this Exodus from New England to the West, is a graduate of Franklin College, Ohio. He went to Washington Territory five years [...] Warner 70x PH Coll 273.A30 In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. In 1864, Asa Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle and in 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area.
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| Date | 1866 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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