Andrew Mercer (1829 – 6 June 1902) was Mayor of Dunedin 1873–1874.[1]
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.[2] Mercer opened a grocery store on Princes Street in Dunedin, in partnership with George Ross, and then alone, and then with his son Hector.[3] Mercer served seven years on the city council, and was a Justice of the Peace.[1] He was elected mayor of Dunedin in 1873 and served one term.[4]
He died in Dunedin on 6 June 1902.[5]
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