Background
Mercur, Rodney Augustus was born on September 29, 1851 in Towanda, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Chief Justice Ulysses and Sarah Simpson (Davis) Mercur.
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Rodney Augustus Mercur
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Education
Educated Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut. Graduate Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (U.S.) Student Harvard University, 1871-1872.
Career
Admitted to Bradford Company bar, 1875, United States District Court, 1876, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1878, Supreme Court of the United States, 1905. Register in bankruptcy, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1877-1879. Trustee Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania commissioner to Chicago Exposition, and treasurer state commission.
United States delegate Universal Congress Lawyers and Jurists, Saint Louis, 1904.
Lay deputy General Convention, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1886-1931. Chancellor Diocese Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 23 years.
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Married Mary Ward, June 12, 1879. Children: Louise Ward (deceased), Sarah Davis, Amy Hart and Mary Ward (twins, both deceased), Rodney Augustus.
