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🤝 William Bray and J. S. Smith
William Bray and J. S. Smith helped establish the community institution behind Merrigum Hall. Bray, already an early Progress Association president, became the Mechanics’ Institute’s first president, with Smith as secretary. Land was donated in 1888 and public subscriptions supported construction. An enlargement opened in 1895 with a banquet and ball, combining civic ambition with a proper social occasion. Their contribution was organisational: bringing people, money and a building project together so that a small town had a shared place for learning and gathering. The later memorial hall added another generation’s purpose to that institutional beginning.
