Oneida County NyArchives Biographies.....Pierce, Rev. D. F. 
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Author: Utica, New York newspaper


From Utica, New York newspaper
 
April 25, 1908
Rev D. F. Pierce, again Presiding Elder, Comes to the Utica District from
Arsenal Street Church, Watertown. Rev D. F. Pierce D.D. 
Esteemed Methodist Clergyman Who comes to Utica from Watertown. Rev D. F. Pierce
D.D. who comes to this city from Watertown. Presiding elder of the Utica
District --- Methodist Clergymen in the Northern Conference. For the past six
years he has been pastor of the Arsenal Street Church in Watertown going to that
church from Utica where he had been presiding elder for four years. Thus in
returning to the Utica District he comes back to familiar churches and to old
friends, who will mix and sincerely welcome him. Prior to his filling his first
charge, he was presiding elder in this district. He was continued for 5 years in
Rome where he was pastor of the First M. E. Church. He also preached for a time
in Ilion and Herkimer and had filled many important chairs in the conference. 

Rev. Dr. Pierce is a delightful gentleman and a most earnest Christian worker.
His ministerial career has been uniformly successful. He is a powerful and
convincing teacher and readily gains the good will and enthusiastic cooperation
of his congregation. He establishes at once a bond of sympathy between himself
and the people to whom he ministers and thus multiplies himself as an agency for
good. He is a D.A.R. man, being a veteran of the civil war in which he served as
a soldier and every pin__ in which he has served the "boys in blue" have been
his friends.
In Watertown deep regret has been publicly expressed over his departure.
But what is Watertown's loss is Utica's gain and Rev. Dr. Pierce will be warmly
welcomed here. His home in Utica will be 21 Brinkerhoff Avenue. 

Thanks to John S Wilkinson of Rome NY for this transcription.



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