Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Howard PIERCE

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.  
Published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 835, 836

Howard Pierce.  Prominent among the enterprising and successful farmers 
and stock-raisers of Grant Township, Dade County, Mo., stands the name 
of Mr. Pierce, who was born in Greene County, N. Y., in 1828.  His parents,
Dr. Eli and Sarah (Burgess) Pierce, were born in Otsego County, N. Y., and 
Philadelphia, respectively.  They were married in New York, and in about 
1844 removed to Indiana, where the mother died before the war, and where 
the father died about 1880.  Dr. Pierce was an eminent physician for 
twenty-five years on the Hudson River, N. Y., but after he removed to 
Indiana retired from practice.  He was at one time president of the 
New York State Medical Association.  Dr. Pierce was of the old Puritan 
stock, and was of the same family as President Pierce.  Howard Pierce, 
the fourth of five sons and three daughters, received a good education, 
and studied the languages under a private tutor.  He came to Indiana with 
his parents, and was there married in 1855 to Miss Mary J., daughter of 
Francis and Rheua E. Mossman, natives of Coshocton County, Ohio.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Mossman removed to Indiana when Mrs. Pierce was a girl, and there 
they still live.  To Mr. and Mrs. Pierce were born ten children, five sons
and three daughters now living.  In 1857 Mr. Pierce removed to Fond du Lac,
Wis., but afterward to Milwaukee, where he was engaged in the grain business
there and at Chicago, until 1871, when he came to Dade County, Mo.  Here he
settled on prairie land near his present residence.  In 1879 he settled on 
his present farm, which consists of 160 acres, all the result of his own 
industry.  In politics he was formerly a Whig, casting his first 
presidential vote for Gen. Taylor in 1848, but at present he is a stanch 
Republican.  He has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. for thirty years, 
and he and his wife are members of the old school Presbyterian Church.  
His grandfather, William Burgess, was born in England, as was also Mrs. 
Burgess, and died in Otsego County, N. Y.  He raised a company, and offered
his services in the War of 1812, but was not needed.  He was a wealthy and
influential farmer.

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