Mial or Miles H. Pierce 1879

PIERCE, HUGHES, CLARK

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Date: 5/17/2010 at 22:09:54

M.H. PIERCE, farmer, Sec. 19; P.O. Union Center; he owns 200 acres of land. He was born in Bradford Co., Penn., Feb. 20, 1819, and, when a boy of 9 years of age, his parents moved to Genesee Co., N.Y., where he received the greater part of his education; when 16 years old, removed to Sandusky Co., Ohio, where he lived until he reached his 20th year, when he commenced a series of travels all over the Southern and Western States, which he continued till 1846, when he settled down and commenced farming in Montgomery Co., Ind.; in 1855, he removed to Iowa and located in Winneshiek Co.; in 1866, he came to Jackson Co., and permanently settled on the property where he now resides. He has for several years served his township as School Director and Justice of the Peace. He is a stanch old Jacksonian Democrat. He married his first wife, Martha Hughes, a native of Indiana, in Montgomery Co. of that State, Jan. 28, 1844, and had five children, four living - Joseph G., George D., William B. and Martha May. He married his second wife, Sarah A. Clark, a native of Mercer Co., Penn., in Jackson Co., Jan. 12, 1864; they have two children - Lester C. and Grace. He is liberal in church views. When he first came to Iowa, he had but a moderate amount of capital, but by industry and close attention to business he has acquired a pleasant homestead, and a fortune of $15,000 to $20,000, besides having settled handsome competencies on his three sons. - 1879 History of Jackson County Iowa, pg 779.