BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PIERCE, Sr. - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 672-673 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PIERCE, Sr., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Yorkville; born in
Rhode Island, at Little Compton, July 2, 1801; went with his parents to
Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., and remained there till 1842. He married
there, Dec. 10, 1824, Rowena Hills, a resident there, but a native of
Rutland, Vt. In 1842, he came to Racine Co., and located in Dover; they
have five children- Asa W., Alvin A., Calvin L. Benjamin F. and Rowena.
When he first came here, he took up eighty-four acres of Government land
in Sec. 1, and purchased ninety-three acres since then in other
sections. Alvin A. owns 120 acres in Dover, Secs. 1 and 2, but resides
in Waterford and works this farm here. Benjamin F. married, Nov. 3,
1856, in Sugar Creek, Walworth Co., Wis., Mary Cameron, of same place,
and has five children, all living in Dover.