“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


DANIEL PIERCE,  farmer, Sec. 18;  P.O. Busseyville; was born in 
Allegany Co., N.Y., Aug. 29, 1833;  son of Daniel and Catherine Pierce.  
His father was born in Washington Co., R.I., Jan. 11, 1793.  He married, 
in August, 1826, in Hopkinton, Miss Catherine Lewis; had six children, 
two living – Daniel and Susan.  He moved to Allegany Co., N.Y., in 
1816, and resided there till March, 1838, when he came to Fulton Co., 
Ill., where he bought a farm which he worked till 1852.  He then came to 
Sumner Township, Wis., where he bought a farm of eighty acres; here he 
lived and worked industriously up to the time of his death in 1861.  
Daniel assisted his parents till 1854, and, in May, 1859, married, in 
Janesville, Miss Isabella White, and who was born in Perthshire, 
Scotland, March 7, 1836; had five children – James F., born Feb. 19, 
1860;  Thomas W., born Oct. 27, 1862;  Pardon L., born Nov. 21, 1865;  
Daniel C., born June 12, 1867;  John W., born Oct. 15, 1876.  He now 
owns 140 acres of land, which he has well improved.  In 1873, he was 
elected to the office of Town Clerk, and re-elected in 1874.  He was also 
Supervisor two years.  Republican.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)