Mersman Furniture of Ottoville, Ohio, was founded around 1876 by J.B. Mersman, a former sawmill operator. The business was relocated to the city of Celina in 1900 and manufactured beds, dining tables, and library tables.

Soon after the move to Celina, the company’s operation was turned over to Mersman’s sons, Edward, Walter, and Albert, and a local banker and investor, Henry Lenartz and the firm became known as Lenartz and Mersman Brothers. Lenartz later sold his interest in the company to the brothers and Edmund Brandts, a Prussian-German immigrant, and again the name of the company was changed. Mersman Brothers and Brandts Company was incorporated in 1906 and the business, employing 125 workers and ten traveling salesmen, was now shipping high quality furniture to all parts of the U.S. and to Canada.

The company, again, changed its name in 1927 to Mersman Brothers Corporation and during the 1930s manufactured dining tables, bedroom suites and radio cabinets. With the onset of WWII, the firm contributed to the war effort with the manufacture of desks, mess tables and benches, mobile repair units and plywood. The company then drifted into its better known line, living room tables.

The business was purchased by Congoleum Industries in 1963 and, again, by Somers Corporation in 1977. After the latter purchase, Will Somers became president and the operation was now known as Mersman Tables. The company was manufacturing occasional tables along with matching wall units and curios in its three facilities, two in Celina, Ohio, and one in Europa, Mississippi. Millions of items were manufactured in these facilities and Mersman tables, in all styles from the simple to the ornate, can readily be found today. The company ceased operations in 1995.

The table pictured has a blond "Danish Modern" look. It measures 35 ½" across and 15" high. It is marked "Mersman 8022" underneath.