Asa Shinn Mercer (June 6, 1839 â€" 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.Seattle Public
Schools operates Asa Mercer International Middle School in Seattle's
Beacon Hill neighborhood.In 1861, as a member of one of the founding
families of Seattle, Washington, a young Asa Mercer assisted his
brothers in clearing stumps to make way for the new territorial
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