Philemon Pierson died 1900

PIERSON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/28/2017 at 21:44:02

The Clinton Mirror
W. D. Eaton, Editor
Clinton, Iowa, February 3, 1900

Monday of this week Philemon Pierson, our old friend, comrade and fellow workman, fell in the battle of life. He was sick several weeks, but cheerful and patient through all his suffering. After serving through the war in an Ohio regiment with credit, he came to Clinton in 1865, where he entered the service of C. Lamb & Sons in their sawmill. He was one of the many who helped give Clinton the name of the “Lumber City.”

He leaves a wife and two sons, Albert and Elwood. A young daughter Etta preceded him several years ago to the land of shadows, and now waits his coming there. He was a working man, honest and upright, and though he was unable to lay off wealth in his life’s struggles, he gained the goodwill of all, and dying, left hosts of friends and few enemies.