Windham

PIERCE, George W.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 313-314 
(portrait p 313)

George W. PIERCE, of Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], was born 03 
December 1854 in Westminster [Windham County, Vermont], son of Nathan G. and 
Roxana (KEACH) PIERCE. He received his education in the common and private 
schools of his native town and assisted his father on the farm until he was 
twenty-four years of age, when he entered the employment of the Vermont 
Asylum for the Insane at Brattleboro. For eight years he served as 
supervisor of the male department, and at the expiration of that time he was 
selected for the management of the farm; and for the past six years has been 
the manager of the asylum farm department, a position which he still holds. 
His name has been very prominent in the agricultural interests of the town 
and of the state. In 1892 he received the appointment as a member of the 
State Board of Agriculture, which office he soon resigned, his business 
relations not allowing him to hold the same. In the same year he also 
refused the candidacy for town representative. At the present time he holds 
the office of secretary of the Vermont Dairyman's Association; also is master 
of the Protective Grange, Brattleboro. He is an active member of the 
Universalist church, now being a member of the board of trustees of the First 
Universalist Society in Brattleboro. In 1884 Mr. [George W.] PIERCE married 
Ida M., daughter of Alvah and Sylvia WEED of Saratoga [Saratoga County], New 
York, by whom he has four children: Milton W., George E., Frederick W., and 
Weed K.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly