Philadelphia County PA Archives Biographies.....Thomas May PEIRCE (1837-1896) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lew Smedley [smedley.george@att.net] Author: Virgil A. Lewis 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. Visit The George Smedley Homepage http://smedley.lewis.home.att.net This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/bios/peirce-tm.txt