BIO:  Joseph Peirce, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 126

JOSEPH PEIRCE, merchant of Airville, is a son of George and Jane Peirce, of 
Chester County, Penn.  He received his early education in the excellent schools 
of his native township – Brandywine.  He was employed as a clerk in a store and 
also taught school.  At the age of eighteen he became a partner with his brother-
in-law, A. C. Sin, in farming and storekeeping.  He afterward entered the employ 
of a Philadelphia business firm as a salesman.  In 1855 he moved to York Furnace, 
in Lower Chanceford, and purchased the mercantile stock and rented the store 
stand of John Bair & Co.  In 1866, he purchased a farm of sixty acres from J. J. 
McSherry, of Airville.  To this farm he has added eighty-five acres.  At the same 
time he began the general mercantile business, which he is yet conducting at 
Airville.  He has been postmaster for twenty five years.  His marriage with 
Lydia, daughter of Hartly Potts, of Bucks County, took place in 1852.