CLASS OF 1852

Edwin Pierce died at Elgin, Ill., February 14,. He was born in Barnard, Vt., June 25, 1826, being son of Dana and Diademiah (Paul) Pierce. During his boyhood he lived in Woodstock, Vt., and prepared for college there and at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa. His life-work was that of a teach- er. From 1852 to 1856 he taught languages at Seneca Collegiate Institute, Ovid, N. Y.; then at Kossuth, lowa, 1856-63; principal of a grammar school in Jersey City, N. J., 1863-73; teacher of languages in the high school of Cleveland, Ohio, 1873-5; and in 1875 he became the first principal of Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., where his work was largely instrumental in establishing that wellknown institution on a firm foundation. In 1879 his health failed, and he resigned and took up his residence in Newton, Mass., where he lived until 1908. Since this time he has lived with his only son in Kenilworth, Ill. Mr. Pierce was three times married: first, to Sarah Letitia, daughter of Peter De Forest of Brooklyn, N. Y., April 10, 1855; second to Harriet M. Goddard, Dec. 29, 1869; and third, to Phebe F., daughter of Rev. Christopher Marsh, Dec. 23, 1873. The last wife died in Newton, Sept. 8, 1907.