Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Pierce, Alfred December 31, 1841 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

ALFRED PIERCE, farmer, sec. 1, Hinton Tp, was born Dec. 31, 1841, in St. 
Lawrence Co., N.Y.  His parents, 

David and Polly (Day) Pierce, were also natives of St. Lawrence County.  He 
started out alone in the welfare 

of life at the age of 15 years.  His parents had previously removed to 
Walworth Co., Wis., and in the spring 

of 1856 he came to Michigan with the family of Wm Egbert (now deceased) and 
located in Berrien Co., Mich., 

remaining with them until 21 years of age, engaged in farming and 
speculating.  In the sprong of 1863, he 

went to Minnesota and bought a farm, which he managed for five years, and 
meanwhile was one year engaged in 

conducting a hotel at Rochester, Minn.  He sold the farm and came to Mecosta 
County, where he bought 80 

acres fo wild land, in Morton Tp., which he sold in the fall of 1881.  In the 
spring of 1880 he bought 80 

acres of forest land in Hinton Tp., where he now resides, with 20 acres under 
cultivation.  In politics Mr. 

Pierce is a Republican; has held the office of Justice of the Peace four 
years, and was Highway Commissioner 

three years in Morton Tp.

Mr. Pierce was maried in Berrien Co., Mich., Nov. 26, 1863, to Mary E., 
daughter of Israel B and Hannah 

Sackett, native of Michigan.  Mrs. Pierce was born in Berrien Co., December 
25, 1840.  Her father died when 

she was ten years olf, and she was thrown upon her own resources for support.  
Of ten children born to Mr. 

and Mrs. Pierce, eight survive, four of them being twins; Charles A. was born 
Nov. 10, 1864; Fred L., Aug 

16, 1866; Walter, Dec. 16, 1868; Frank Oct. 14, 1869; Etta, July 18, 1872; 
Harry, May 14, 1877; Nathan, 

August 13, 1879, and Alfred Nov 15, 1882; Annie, born July 18, 1872, died Dec. 
26, 1880; Gertrude, born July 

17, 1874, and died Dec. 30, 1880.  Mr. and Mrs. Pierce are both members of the 
order of Good Templars, and 

are active and prominent members of the M. E. Church, with which they united 
at an early day.  Mr. Pierce is 

an earnest advocate of the temperance cause, and is prominent in all the 
reforms of the day.

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