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Pierce, John Davis – Pierson, Abraham

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.

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.

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.