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in the Carnegie art gallery. Pittsburg, Pa., (1889); Late Afternoon, Florida, in the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arts and Sciences (1890); Morning on the Loing (1895); Morning on the Mediter- ranean, in Luxembourg collection. Paris (1896); Ttie Road to Nice (1896), and Sand Danes at Ipswich (1896). He died at Devereaux Rocks, Marblehead, Mass.. Aug. 9, 1897.

PIEPER, Franz August Otto, educator, was born in Carwitz, Pomerauia, Germany, June 27, 1853 ; son of August and Bertha Pieper. He was a student at the Dom-Gymnasium, Colberg, Pomerania, and in 1870 came to the United States. He was graduated at Northwestern university, Watertown, Wis., A.B., 1872, and at Concordia Lutheran Theological seminary, St. Louis, Mo., in 1875 ; was ordained to the Luthe- ran ministry at Centreville, Wis., in 1875, and was pastor there and at Manitowoc, 1875-78. He was professor of theology in Concordia Theolo- gical seminary at St. Louis, 1878-87, and in 1887 became president of the seminary and professor of dogmatic and pastoral theology, succeeding Dr. C. F. W. Walther. He was elected presi- dent-general of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states in 1899, and re-elected in 1902, at the same time retaining the professorship and presidency at Concordia. He also became editor of Lehre and Wehre, Luthe- raner and Homiletisches Magazin. He is the author of : Orundbekenntniss de ev.-Lutherischen Kirche, mit einer geschichtlichen Einleitung und kurzen erklarenden Anmei'kiuigenversehen (1880); Lehre von Christi Werk (1898): Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church (1892), and contributions to denominational periodicals.

PIERCE, Benjamin, governor of New Hamp- shire, was born in Chelmsford, Mass., Dec. 25, 1757. His first ancestors in America settled in Plymouth in 1(523. He was the seventh of ten •children, and his parents having died when he was six years old, he was cared for by a paternal uncle, but received a very limited ctlucation. He engaged in farming from childhood, and in 1775, on learning of the battle of Lexington, he en- listed as a regular soldier in miy at Cambridge, serving under He fought in the battle of Bun- ker Hill, was appointed sergeant in the Continen- tal regiment in Washington's army in 1776. and sergeant in the 8th Massacliusetts. in January, 1777. He was promoted ensign for bravery in saving the flag of the company at Saratoga, Oct. 7, 1777 ; lieutenant, July 7. 1782. and was transferred to the 1st Massachusetts, Jan. 1, 178o, as captain, having command of a detach- VIII. -'II

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ment that entered the city of New York upon its evacuation, Nov. 25, 1783. He entered the employ of a large landholder in New England after the war, and was soon enabled to purchase a tract of land in Hillsborough, N.H., which he cleared and on which he settled and built a rude log house. He was married in 1787 to Elizabeth Andrews of Hillsborough, who died in 1788, and he was married secondly in 1789 to Anna Kendrick of Amherst, N.H. He was appointed brigade major of his district in the New Hampshire militia by Governor Sullivan in 1786, and was promoted brigadier-general. He represented Hillsborough in the state legislature, 1789-1801, was a member of the governor's council, 180:J-09 and 1813-18. and sheriff of Hillsborough county, 1809-13 and 1818-27. He was governor of New Hampshire in 1827 and 1829, but was defeated in 1828, and was a Democratic presidential elector at large in 1833, voting for Andrew Jackson. He died in Hillsborough, N.H., April 1, 1839.

PIERCE, Byron Root, soldier, was born in East Bloomfield, Ontario county, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1829 ; son of Silas and Mary (Root) Pierce. He was educated in Rochester, N.Y., worked in his father's woolen factory, and became a dentist. He removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1856, and in 1861 enlisted in the 3d Michigan volunteer infantry, being promoted captain, May 13. 1861, major, Oct. 21, 1861, lieutenant-colonel, July 25, 1862, and colonel, Jan. 1, 1863. He served with the Army of the Potomac during the entire war ; was promoted brigadier-general of U.S. volun- teers, June 7, 1864 ; was brevetted major-general of volunteers, April 6, 1865, for gallant services at Sailor's Creek, Va., and was mustered out cf the service, Aug. 24, 1865. He was married, Oct. 12, 1881, to Abbie L. Evans of Rhode Island. He was commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Grand Rapids, Mich., 1887-91, and in 1902 was an employee in the U.S. post office at Grand Rapids.

PIERCE, Edward Lillie, publicist and lawyer, was born in Stoughton, Mass., March 29, 1829 ; son of Col. Jesse and Elizabeth S. (Lillie) Pierce, and brother of Henry Lillie Pierce (q.v.). He was prepared for college at the academies at Bridgewater and Easton ; was graduated from Brown university in 1850 ; from Harvard Law school in 1852; was admitted to the bar in Boston, 1853, and subsequently practised in Cincinnati, Chicago and again in Boston. He was a member of the Republican national conventions of 1860, 1876, 1880, 1884. At the opening of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 3d Massachusetts regiment ; served at Fort Monroe, and was detailed to organize, educate and render self-supporting the freedmen of the Sea Islands, S.C, in 1862, which enterprise proved so successful that he started companies in other districts to carry on