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Recruitment Trip

When: March 1864
Where: Eastern United States
Part of: Asa Mercer recruits the first Mercer Girls in Seattle for the U.S. East Coast

Asa Mercer traveled to the eastern United States in March 1864 to recruit single women for Seattle.

Mercer departed in March 1864 with public support and private funding. He sought women willing to relocate to the remote Pacific Northwest to work as teachers, addressing the lack of marriageable women in the frontier settlement.

Sources

Asa Mercer Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
Mercer Girls Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-15

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