Simon B. Mercer and Mary Jane Van Eman

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Husband Simon B. Mercer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1824 - near Martinsburg, Knox Co, OH 1
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         Father: Levi Mercer (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah McCuskey (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1853 1

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Wife Mary Jane Van Eman ^{1 2 3}

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         Father: William Van Eman (1794-Abt 1829) 4
         Mother: Mary Bracken (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M T. B. V. Mercer ¹

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2 F Anna Mary Mercer ¹

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3 M O. V. Mercer ¹

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4 F Sarah J. Mercer ¹

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5 M William S. Mercer ¹

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6 M Edward H. Mercer ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Simon B. Mercer

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He was a professor in the Saltsburg Academy.
He was one of the elders in the Saltsburg Presbyterian church, this being the third term in three different congregations.

He was educated at the Martinsburg (Knox county, Ohio,) academy, and Jefferson college, graduating in the class of 1851, which he entered in the sophomore year. He was assistant tutor at Jefferson College for two years, and traveled one year in raising funds for the college. He taught his first school at the age of seventeen, near Martinsville, Clark County, Illinois, and before going to the west, had grubbed over two hundred acres. His second school was in his native township, Clay, Knox County, Ohio. The more noted institutions taught by or presided over by him were: New Manchester academy, Hancock County, West Virginia; an academy in the Kishicoquillis valley, Pennsylvania; Hunterstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, one and one-half years; Dunlap's creek academy, Pennsylvania, four and a half years; Beaver academy, Beaver, Pennsylvania, six years, and for two of the same years he had charge of the Female Seminary, having purchased the latter institution; Monroe College, Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, one and a half years; and the Saltsburg Academy, from 1867 to 1872, and after an interval of two years, returned to the school and had charge for two more years. In all he taught for thirty years, his students numbering over three hundred, one hundred of whom entered the ministry. He finally retired to his farm in Loyalhanna township, Westmoreland County, near Saltsburg.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 393.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 720.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 426.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 272, 426.