Pierce, John Davis – Pike, Frederick Augustus
Pierce, John Davis
clergyman, state legislator, author, was born Feb. 18, 1797, in Chesterfield, N. H. He was superintendent of public instruction in Michigan for two years, during that time edited and published the Journal of Education, and also edited at one time the Democratic Expounder at Marshall. He is credited with being the author of the Michigan free-school system. He died April 5, 1882, in Medford, Mass.
Pierce, Joseph
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire during the years 1801 and 1802.
Pierce, Lewis
lawyer, state legislator, was born April, 1832, in Gorham. He has represented Portland in the Maine legislature, has been public administrator for the county of Cumberland, and has served on the school committee of Portland.
Pierce, Nathaniel
lawyer, state legislator, was born in March, 1832, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a successful lawyer of Newburyport. He has been repeatedly mayor of his city, and has represented it in the legislature.
Pierce, Ray Vaughn
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1840, in Stark, N. Y. The World's Medical Dispensary association, of which he is president and almost sole owner, was created for the more systematic manufacture of his popular remedies. He was elected to the state senate in 1877; and in 1878 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress.
Pierce, Rice A
lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 1848, in Dresden, Tenn. He was elected district attorneygeneral of the twelfth judicial circuit in 1874; and re-elected in 1878 for a full term of eight years. He was elected to the forty-eighth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses as a democrat; ran as an independent free coinage democrat in 1892 and was defeated; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Pierce, Robert B. F
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1843, in Laurel, Ind. He served in the union army during the war of the rebellion.
He was prosecuting attorney at Crawfordsville from 1868 to 1874, and in 1880 was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-seventh congress. He
Pierce, Thomas May
author, was born Dec. 10, 1837, in Chester, Pa. He is the author of Test Business Problems; Pierce's School Manual of Business Forms and Customs; and Pierce's School Manual of Bookkeeping.
Pierce, William
soldier, congressman, author, was born about 1740 in Georgia. He served in the revolutionary war as an aide-decamp to General Greene, and for his services a sword was presented to him by the old congress.
He was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress, and was a member of the convention which framed the federal constitution.
While in congress he wrote his impressions of the men who served in that body, which were long afterward published in a Savannah paper. He died about 1806.
Pierce, William Halford
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 12, 1862, in Equality, Ill. He attended the Illinois State Normal school; the Shurtleff college; and graduated from the McKendree college and the Garrett Biblical institute. In 1883 he joined the southern Illinois conference, and two years later was transferred to the Rock River conference; and is an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He is the author of works on Agonography, a system of shorthand writing without angles. He is also a successful lecturer on popular subjects.
Pierce, Winslow Smith
pioneer, educator, author, was born May 3, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He was one of the originators of the first line of steamships between the Isthmus of Panama and San Francisco. He settled in Indiana in 1860, devoted himself largely to the coal and iron industries, and laid out and at one time owned a large part of Indianapolis.
He left in manuscript a complete collection of material for a book entitled Reminiscences of Public Men from 1828 to 1888. He died July 29, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pierpont, Francis Harrison
lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 25, 1814, in Monongalia county, Va. From 1861 to 1868 he was the governor of West Virginia, and has held numerous offices under the United States government.
Pierpont, James
clergyman, was born in 1661, in Massachusetts. He was a clergyman, and one of the founders of Yale college. He died Nov. 14, 1714, in New Haven, Conn.
Pierpont, John
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 6, 1785, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Hollis street church in 1819-45. He wrote a volume of sacred verse, Airs of Palestine, and a number of domestic lyrics, which were very popular, Passing Away being the best known of any. He compiled several school readers, the most noted of which was The American First-Class Book. He died Aug. 26, 1866, in Medford, Mass.
Pierrepont, Edwards
lawyer, jurist, was born March 4, 1817, in North Haven, Conn. He was judge of the New York supreme court from 1857 to 1860; and in 1862 was made a member of the military commission for the trial of prisoners of state. He was United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1869-70. He was appointed attorneygeneral of the United States in 1875. In 1876 envoy extraordinary he was appointed and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. He died March 6, 1892, in New York city.
Pierrepont, Edward Willough- By
public official, author, was born in 1860 in New York. He was charge d'affaires at Rome at the time of his death. He was the author of From Fifth Avenue to Alaska. He died in 1885.
Pierse, Edwin Hall
musician, composer, was born Dec. 25, 1868, in Auburn, N. Y. He is director of the school of music at Ripon college of Wisconsin, and the author of numerous compositions for the piano.
Pierson, Abraham
clergyman, author, was born in 1641, in Lynn, Mass.
He was the first rector of Yale college, serving from 1701-07. He is the author of a text-book on Natural Philosophy, which was used for twenty-five years. He died March 5, 1707, in New Haven, Conn.
Pierson, Arthur Tappan
clergyman, author, was born in 1837 in New York. He is a congregational clergyman of note, and the author of Acts of the Holy Spirit; Many Infallible Proofs; The Crisis of Missions; The Miracles of Missions; The Divine Art of Preaching; The Heart of the Gospel; Keys to the Word; and Lessons on Prayer.
Pierson, Mrs. Cornelia
(TUT- HILL), author, was born in 1820 in Connecticut. She was the author of Our Little Comfort; Wreaths and Blossoms for the Church; When Are We Happiest? and The Belle, the Blue, and the Bigot.
She died in 1870.
Pierson, Delavan L
poet. He is a writer of Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of a number of poems.
Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1817, in Bergen, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman in Kentucky, and the author of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello; and In the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political and Religious Life in the Southwest.
Pierson, Isaac
physician, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1770, in New Jersey. He practiced medicine for forty years and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1827 to 1831. He died Sept. 22, 1833, in New Jersey.
Pierson, Jeremiah H
congressman, was born in Essex county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823.
Pierson, Job
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1835. He died April 9, 1860.
Pigott, James P
lawyer, congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn. He is a noted lawyer of New Haven; was chairman of the state delegation to the democratic national convention in 1888, and was elected to the fifty-third congress.
Pike, Albert
lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and journalist of Little Rock, Memphis, and Washington successively, who served as an officer in the confederate army. He was the author of Hymns to the Gods; Prose Sketches and Poems; Nugæ, a collection of Poems; and Arkansas Supreme Court Reports, 1840-45. He died April 2, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Pike, Austin F
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 14, 1819, in Hebron, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1850, 1851, 1852, 1865 and 1866, and speaker during the last two years. He was a presidential elector in 1852; was a member of the New Hampshire senate in 1857 and 1858, and was president of the senate in the latter year.
He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-third congress; and in 1883 was elected a United States senator from New Hampshire for the term of six years from March 4, 1883. He died Oct. 8, 1886, in Franklin, N. H.
Pike, Frances West Atherton
author, was born March 17, 1819, in Prospect, Maine. She has published Step by Step; Here and Hereafter; Katherine Morris; Sunset Stories, in six volumes; Climbing and Sliding; and Striving and Gaining.
Pike, Frederick Augustus
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1817, in Calais, Maine. was a member of the Maine legislature, serving one term as speaker of the house of representatives. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died Dec. 2, 1886, in Calais, Maine.
He