Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Thomas May PEIRCE (1837-1896)
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Thomas May Peirce, b.Chester, Pa., 12-10-1837; d. 1616 N. Broad Street,
Philadelphia, 5-16-1896; m. 12-25-1861, Emma Louisa Bisbing, b.5-
4-1836; d. 6-26-1870; dau. of Robert Bisbing and Mary Heilig, of
Springfield, Montgomery Co. Second m., 10-14-1871, to Ruth Stong,
b. 2-13-1842; d. 11-8-1898; buried by her husband at Whitemarsh
Cemetery; dau. of William Stong and Mary Darrah, of Willistown,
Chester Co. He was educated in the public schools of
Philadelphia and taught school in Springfield, Montgomery Co.,
Norristown High School, and the Manayunk, Monroe and Mount
Vernon Grammar Schools, of Philadelphia. With this experience he
established the Peirce College of Business, Philadelphia, which
from a small beginning increased in scope and efficiency until
it had an enrollment of over one thousand pupils. He was also
well known as an expert in detecting the identity of
handwriting; was elected,in 1879, president of the Business
Educators' Association of America; was for many years a
director of the Fairmount Park Art Association; was the author
of several educational works, and an active worker in the M.E.
Church. 
 
 
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