PIERCE, P. F., DR.

PIERCE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/28/2019 at 18:13:24

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

PIERCE, P. F., DR., was born in Germany July 14, 1854; came to the United States in 1861; lived at Farmington, Van Buren Co., Iowa, until 1865 ; then removed to Dover, Lee Co., where he remained until he came to Keokuk in 1868; learned the drug business and read medicine with F. H. O'Connor, M. D. ; graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, of St. Louis, in 1874 ; he then returned to Farmington and was engaged in the drug business and practice of his profession until 1876 ; he then came to Keokuk again ; the Doctor manufactures what he calls Pierce's Little Liver Pills, which he claims to be a perfect liver medicine, aiding digestion and cleansing blood, causing no pain, purely vegetable, containing no calomel, as many remedies for similar diseases do.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879