Jesse Mercer
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Jesse Mercer was an American Baptist minister and eponym of Mercer University in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Jesse Mercer engraving
Penfield, Georgia
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Penfield, Georgia, United States was established shortly after 1829 in Greene County, and named in honor of Josiah Penfield, a Savannah merchant and silversmith from Fairfield, Connecticut, who bequea
Jesse Mercer
…a wealthy widow who joined him in making large gifts to Mercer Institute, a boys' manual labor school organized by the Georgia Baptist Convention in Penfield, Georgia. Mercer provided a founding endowment and served as the first chairman of the school's board of trustees. In return, the school was named in his honor…
Old Mercer Chapel, built by David Demarest in 1845, now the Penfield Baptist Church.