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Sister, Elizabeth (“Lela”) Mercer Fidler von Isarborn (1858-1919):
Lcla met her future husband while traveling abroad with her brothers. After their marriage, the couple settled in Bavaria, where Baron Hubert, a military man and accomplished amateur artist, continued to paint. The BCHS owns his portraits of his mother- and father-in-law, Henry’s parents. Lcla and Hubert's daughter, Walpurga (“Valley,” 1893-1975), was the only surviving grandchild of Mary and Willie Mercer.
Brother, William R. Mercer, Jr. (1862-1939):
Young Willie attended Harvard University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Pine Arts. Trained as a sculptor, he also worked in stained glass, and produced garden sculptures and vases in concrete, often made with mosaic ornament in the style of the 13th century Cosmati family of Rome. Surviving examples of his work include a relief in plaster of his uncle, George Douglas Mercer (in the Fonthill Saloon), and the fountain across from the James-Lorah House (Broad and Main Streets, Doylestown), for which he provided the design. In 1904 he married Martha Dana (1872-1960), a Boston socialite from a well-to-do family. Their only children, twin sons, died in infancy.
Henry’s Family, the Chapman Side
Grandfather Henry Chapman (1804-1891):
Henry Chapman gained prominence first as an attorney, then as state senator, U.S. congressman, and judge for Bucks and Montgomery counties. Based in Doylestown (county seat of Bucks) and a member of its gentry, he was well thought of and comfortably off. Judge Chapman owned a town house and a farm (on a large tract which included much of today’s Doylestown Shopping Center on North Main Street). He married twice, first to Rebecca Stewart, who died young, then to Nancy Shunk, daughter of Francis Shunk, Govemorof Pennsylvania. Elizabeth and Mary were born ofhis first marriage, and Fanny and Arthur were the children of his marriage to Nancy Shunk.
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY