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George P. Pierce Among the citizens of Sherman Township, Jasper County, Iowa, who have built up comfortable homes and surrounded themselves with valuable landed estates and personal property, none has been more worthy of the large success attained than George P. Pierce. With few opportunities except what his own efforts were capable of mastering and with many discouragements to overcome, he has succeeded admirably and now as the forerunners of old age are upon him he has the gratification of knowing that the community in which he has resided for nearly a half century has benefited by his industry and his counsel. Mr. Pierce was born in Rock County, Wisconsin, March 11, 1845, the son of Alfred and Julia (Kelsey) Pierce. His paternal grandparents were natives of New York and in a very early day moved to Wisconsin and there spent the remainder of their lives. The father of the subject was born in New York and he moved to Wisconsin with his parents. The maternal grandparents, natives of New York also, moved to Wisconsin in pioneer times, and in that state the parents of the subject were married and there spent their lives on a farm, Alfred Pierce owning three hundred and twenty acres of the time of his death, about 1860, his wife having died in 1845 when George P., of this sketch was an infant. Their family consisted of eight children, five of whom are living. The father was a hard-working, quiet, home man, and was a member of the Christian Church. George P. Pierce grew up on the home farm in Wisconsin and there attended the common schools, remaining under the home roof until he was twenty years of age, then, in 1865, he came to Iowa, locating in Sherman Township, Jasper County. About 1875 he bought eight acres in this Township, which he broke and improved, and gradually added to the same until he has at present a valuable place of one hundred and thirty-five acres, well improved with modern buildings, and here he carries on general farming and stock raising, though for the past six years he has been living practically retired. Politically, Mr. Pierce is a Republican, and he has held a number of local offices, including Township trustee. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Pierce was married in 1866 to Elizabeth Harter, a native of Wisconsin, and the daughter of William and Elizabeth Harter, old settlers there who came to Iowa about 1860 and spent their last days here. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pierce, namely: Amanda Ellen; Frank Alfred and Nora Edith are both deceased; William C., Charles W., Audra; Clifford is deceased; Frank. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 823. |
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