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ference at New York city in 1S44; to the conven-
tion at Lonisvillo, Kj., which organized the
Melho«list Episcopal church. South, in l!S45, and
to its first general confereJice at Petersburg. Va.,
in 1S46, and to those of \K}0 and 18.j4. He was
president of Emory college at
Oxford. Ga., 1848-54. and was
elected and ordained bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, at Columbus,
Ga., in 1854. He built St.
Jolin's Methodist clmrch at
Augusta, CJa., 1843-14; made
an overlan<l journey to S;in Francisco on a stage
coach in 18.")9, in the interests of his work, and
received the degrees D.D. from Transylvania
university, LL.D. from Randolph-Macon, college
in 1867, and was a trustee of the University of
Georgia, 1867-84. He is the author of Incidents
of Western 7VaiW(1857). He died at Sparta, Ga.,
S«'i't.:3. 18^4.
PIERCE, Gilbert Ashvlile, senator, was born in E.Lst Otto. Cattaraugus county, N.Y. He moved to Indiana in 1854. and later attended the University of Cliicago Law school for two years. In April, 1861. he enlisted in the 9th Indiana volunteers for tliree months' service, and was elected 2d lieutenant. He re-enlisted, Aug. 3, 1861. w:is apjjointed captain and made assistant quartermaster. He served under General Grant at P.iducah. Fort Donelson, Sliiloh, Grand Gulf and Vicksburg, being present at its surrender, July 4, 1863. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel in 1863; served at Matagorda Island, Texas; was promoted colonel in 1864; appointed inspector and special commissioner of the war department, in which capacity he served at Hil- t<jn Head and Pocotaligo, S.C., thence being orden-d to the department of the gulf, and in October. 1865. he w.is retired with the brevets, major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of volun- teers. He was a representative in the Indiana legislature in 1868; assistant financial clerk of the U.S. senate, 1869-71; assistant and managing alitor of the Cliicago Inter-Ocean, 1871-83; editor of the Chicago yercs, 1883->I4, and governor of Dakota Territ/jry, 1884-87. He was cliosf-n Re- publican U.S. senator from the new .state of North Dakota. Nov. 20, 1889, and drew the short term, which expired March 3, 1891. In 1891 he purchaHe<l with W. J. Murphy, the Minneapolis, ^linn., Trilmue, and became its editor-in-cliief. He was apjK>inted U.S. minister to Portugal by President Harri.son in 1893. resigning after a few months' service. He is the author of several novels, sketches and plays, and pnlilislie<l a Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters nnd Principal Incidents in the Works of Charlrs Dick- ens (1872). He died in Chicago, 111., Feb. 15, 1901.
PIERCE, Henry Lillie, representative, was
born in Stougliton, Mass., Aug. 23, 1825; son of
Col. Jesse and Elizabeth S. (Lillie) Pierce; grand-
son of Jesse and Catherine (Smith) Pierce, and of
Capt. John Lillie (aide to Major-General Knox
in the Revolution), and a descendant of John
Pers, who immigrated from Norfolk county,
England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., in
1637. He attended a private school conducted
by his father at Stoughton, also the academy
and the state normal school at Bridgewater,
Mass.; removed to Dorchester, Mass., with his
parents in 1849; in 1850 entered the chocolate
manufactory of Walter Baker & Co., and on the
death of Mr. Baker in 1854, took charge of the
business. He was active in the organization of
the Free-Soil party in Massachusetts in 1848;
was a representative in the state legislature,
1860-62 and 1866; was a member of the Boston
board of aldermen, 1870-71, mayor of Boston in
1873 and 1878, and a Republican representa-
tive from the third Massachusetts district in the
43d and 44th congresses, having been elected to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of William
Whiting, and serving from December, 1874, to
March 4, 1877. In 1884 he helped to organize an
independent movement to support Grover Cleve-
land for president, and thereafter acted with the
Democratic party. After numerous bequests to
charitable and other public institutions, aggre-
gating $600,000, and including $.50,000 each to
Harvard university, the ^Massachusetts General
hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Techno-
logy, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and
the ^Massachusetts Homoeopathic hospital, he
transferred his valuable farm adjoining the Blue
Hills reservation to the Boston Park commis-
sioners to be added to the park lands of the city,
and bequeathed the residue of his estate to be
divided among the five beneficiaries first named.
He was never married. He died in Boston, Mass.,
Dec. 17, 1896.
PIERCE, Henry Miller, educator and inven- tor, was born in Susquehanna county. Pa., Oct. 6, 1831;sonof Henry Miller and Susan (Peironnet) Pierce; grandson of Dr. John Harvey and Jane (Miller) Pierce and of James Stephen and Susan (Bishop) Peironnet, and a de.scendant of Dr. William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, and of Admiral Adam Duncan, the hero of Caniperdown in 1797. His parents came to America from Eng- land in 1820. He was graduated at Waterville college, Maine, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1857; was prin- cipal of Newcastle academy, 1853-55, of the high school, Cliicopee Falls, Mass., 1856-57, and president of Rutgers College for Women, New York city, 18.58-71. In 1861 with Dr. Francis Lieber and Judge White of New York he organ-
