Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Pearce, Frank E. July 12, 1859 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 12, 2008, 7:08 am Author: Hardin & Willard Pearce, Frank E., Fairfield, superintendent of the poor for Herkimer county (elected in the fall of 1891), is a native of Newport, and was born July 12, 1859. He is a son of James P. Pearce, one of the best known men of the county. Frank E. left the farm at the age of eighteen to embark in the sewing- machine business. He was subsequently five years in the mercantile business in Newport. Then for six years he again followed farming. He was a collector of Newport and supervisor for two terms, 1888-89, and although a Democrat, he was elected in a Republican town. In 1884 he married Jane L. Harris, and they have three children, two sons and one daughter. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/pearce611gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb