About Andrew Mercer
Lived 1829 – 1902 (aged 72–73). Andrew Mercer was a mayor and grocer.
Andrew Mercer (1829 – 6 June 1902) was Mayor of Dunedin 1873–1874.
Mercer was born in Fifeshire in 1829. After an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker, he arrived in Port Chalmers aboard the Philip Laing in 1848. According to an 1848 letter home, Mercer intended for his father and other family to join him. Mercer opened a grocery store on Princes Street in Dunedin, in partnership with George Ross, and then alone, and then with his son Hector. Mercer served seven years on the city council, and was a Justice of the Peace.
He died in Dunedin on 6 June 1902.
Mercer's son, also Andrew Mercer, became a politician in England.
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Who was Andrew Mercer?
Mayor of Dunedin 1873–1874
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Andrew Mercer was born in 1829.
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Andrew Mercer died in 1902.
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Andrew Mercer was a mayor and grocer.
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