Lapeer-Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Pierson, Joseph W. 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOSEPH W. PIERSON. This gentleman who resides in the village of Hadley, Lapeer
County, Mich., and has a handsome farm in Hadley Township, was born in the
London District of Upper Canada, and was but two years old when his parents
brought him from that place to Genesee County, Mich. Since that time he has
spent fifty-four years in this part of the State and has ever called it home. He
is the eldest in a family of eight children, born to John K. and Roby W.
(Weston) Pierson. The former, who was born in Avon, N. Y., in 1810, died in
1889, and the mother who was born in Rhode Island May 3, 1816, is still living.
She is a daughter of Seth Weston and was reared and married in Canada.

  The paternal grandfather of our subject, David Pierson by name, was one of
fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters and it is supposed that he was
born in New York, his grandfather being of English birth. Our subject grew to
mature years in the Wolverine State and it was in the fall of 1858 that he was
united in marriage with Miss Hannah, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Earl)
Davenport.

  To our subject and his estimable wife have been given six children, namely:
Robert J., George W., Lewis J., Dewey C., Nettie E., and Roby M. The eldest son
is a resident of Hadley Township and George who has graduated at the Law
Department of Ann Arbor is at present taking a classical course there. Nettie is
now Mrs. Frank Nowlin, and Roby is the wife of A. B. Hubbard, of Oakland County.

  Mr. Pierson has been an active member of the Town Council since its
incorporation. He owns a beautiful farm of one hundred and fifty-two acres
adjoining Hadley, and it is well improved, showing most plainly the skilled hand
of a thorough and systematic farmer. He is a straightout Prohibitionist and
advocates that doctrine at all times, and in every matter of right and wrong he
never swerves from what he considers duly.

  A lithographic portrait of Mr. Pierson is presented in connection with this
biographical sketch.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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