JESSE T. MERCER
Jesse T. Mercer came to Cass county in 1883 and bought one hundred and twenty acres of unimproved land on section 5. He now has one hundred acres improved and has built a good frame house. He is engaged in grain and stock raising. He was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky in April, 1854. When he was fourteen years old, his parents moved to Iowa and settled in Pottawattamie county, where his father purchased two hundred and forty acres of wild land, and improved a farm. He (the father) still makes that his home. Jesse T. remained with his parents until twenty-two years of age. He was then married to Mary E. Dewitt a native of Delaware county, Iowa, and settled in Sherman township, Montgomery, county, where he remained until he came to Edna. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer have had three children--William, George E. and Lancelot. William died at the age of six years.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 755.
