Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Peirce, Benjamin May 26, 1812 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 755 & 756

Benjamin Peirce, farmer, postoffice Centreville, Ind., was born in 
Chesterfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., May 26, 1812, a son of Benjamin and 
Deborah (James) Peirce and a grandson of Benjamin Peirce, of Situate, Mass. 
His father was born in Chesterfield in 1777, and his mother in Goshen, Mass.,  
in 1777. His early life was spent with his parents. After arriving at maturity 
he went to Canada and remained three years, a part of the time in the lumber 
trade on the Madawaska, and later on the St. Lawrence Canal. He then went to 
Virginia and for three years was a contractor on the James River and Kanawha 
canals. In the fall of 1838 he came to Indiana and completed the contracts on 
the Whitewater Canal. After the cessation of business on the canals in this 
State he bought a farm in Fayette County, on which he resided till 1846, when 
he bought the farm in Wayne County where he now resides. He was married in 
Wayne County in 1843, to Lusinai, daughter of David Jenkins, an early settler 
of the county. Of their ten children but four are living; three are residents 
of Wayne County, and one of Wamego, Kan. Mr. Peirce has a good farm of 240 
acres, all well improved, and is one of the most substantial citizens of the 
county. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.

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