Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Pierce, Charles M 1817 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Charles M. Pierce, farmer, P. O. Morris. Charles M. Pierce, the subject, is a 
native of Worcester County, Mass., born March 5, 1817; son of William and 
Lydia (Lincoln) Pierce; raised and educated in Franklin County, Mass., town of 
Wendell. Here his parents died; his father in the fall of 1827; his mother was 
cousin to Gov. Lincoln, of Massachusetts. She died in Wendell in 1873, in her 
eighty-ninth year. In early life subject learned the trade of tanner and 
currier, which trade he followed in his native State for twenty-three years; 
was burned out in 1850, and moved to Illinois in 1855 (January), and settled 
in Norman Township of Grundy County, having married in Massachusetts, November 
24, 1841, to Miss Clarinda Browning, of Massachusetts, born in Worcester 
County (Rutland), May, 1817; died in Massachusetts November, 1847. By this 
union he has two children - Edwin L. Pierce, born in Massachusetts November 
19, 1842, living in Missouri; Clarinda G. Pierce, born in Massachusetts 
October 4, 1844, married to Thomas Drackley, of La Salle County. Subject was 
married to his present wife May 20, 1848, to Miss Charlotte Clapp, daughter of 
Oliver and Adelia Clapp, born in Massachusetts, March 4, 1830. They have a 
family of six children as the result of the second marriage - Mary E. Pierce, 
born May 4, 1849, married to Fred M. Green March 17, 1872, now a resident of 
Green County, Kan.; Hetta Ella, born June 22, 1850, died June 27, 1865; George 
A. Pierce, born May 10, 1852, married to Mary B. Slosson January 1, 1880; 
Walter M. Pierce, born May 30, 1861, educated at Morris and Ann Arbor, and 
teaching in Kansas; Charles M. Pierce, born October 11, 1866; Minnie B., born 
October 3, 1868. Subject owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 27 of Norman 
Township; resides eight miles southwest from Morris; engaged in mixed 
husbandry. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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