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Pieper, Franz August Otto – Pierce, John

Pieper, Franz August Otto

clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1852, in Germany. In 1878 he became professor of theology in Concordia seminary, St. Louis, Mo. This post he held until 1887, when he was elected president of the institution. He is a frequent contributor to denominational periodicals, and has published several works in German.

Pierce, Byron Root

soldier, was born Sept. 20, 1829, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the third Michigan volunteers. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864, and brevetted majorgeneral in 1865.

Pierce, Charles W

soldier, congressman, was born in 1823 in New York.

He was a lieutenant in the Illinois volunteers soon after the commencement of the rebellion. He settled in Alabama in 1867, and in 1868 was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress.

Pierce, David G

clergyman, poet, was born April 27, 1840, in South Britain, Conn. He has filled pastorates in the congregational churches of South Britain, Conn., and is the author of a volume of poems.

Pierce, Edward Lillie

lawyer, author, was born March 29, 1829, in Stoughton, Mass. He was a prominent Boston lawyer, and the author of American Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sumner; The Law of Railroads; and Enfranchisement and Citizenship.

Pierce, Emmons S

poet, was born Jan. 27, 1831, in Erie county, N. Y. He is a well-known horseman of Springfield, N. Y., and the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Turf, and Other Ballads.

Pierce, Frederick Clifton

author, was born July 30, 1856, in Worcester county, Mass. He is an Illinois writer who has written town histories of Barre and Grafton, Mass., and of Rockford, Ill.; The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce History and Genealogy; Peirce History and Genealogy; and Pearse and Pearce Genealogy.

Pierce, George Edmund

clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 9, 1794, in Southbury, Conn. For twelve years he was a clergyman; and during 1834-55 was president of the Western Reserve college. He died May 28, 1871, in Hudson, Ohio.

Pierce, George Foster

bishop, author, was born Feb. 3, 1811, in Greene county, Ga. In 1854 he was elected and ordained methodist episcopal bishop at Columbus, Ga. He was the author of Incidents of Western Travel. In 1842 he was elected president of Emory college, resigning in 1854. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Transylvania university, and that of LL. D. by Randolph Macon college. He died Sept. 3, 1884, near Sparta, Ga.

Pierce, Henry Lillie

manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1825, in Stoughton, Mass. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1860, 1861, 1862 and 1866; was an alderman of the city of Boston in 1870 and 1871, and was mayor of Boston in 1873. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-third congress to fill a vacancy, and in 1874 was elected to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.

Pierce, Henry Niles

bishop of Arkansas and the Indian territory, was born Oct. 19, 1820, in Pawtucket, R. I.

He was elected missionary bishop of Arkansas and the Indian territory, and was consecrated in Christ church, Mobile, on Jan. 25, 1870. He has published numerous occasional sermons, essays, and addresses, and is the author of The Agnostic, and Other Poems.

Pierce, John

antiquarian, was born July 14, 1773, in Dorchester, Mass. He was an authority on genealogical and historical researches. He was for twenty years president of the Massachusetts Bible society, of which he was one of the founders. His works consist of eighteen manuscript volumes, which were bequeathed by him to the Massachusetts Historical society. He died Aug. 24, 1849, in Brookline, Mass.