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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.