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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement...
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 433
JOSEPH PIERCE, farmer post office Gill Hall, son of AMOS and DEBORAH (McKILLIP) PIERCE, was born in Jefferson Twp., in 1824, on the farm now owned by him. His great-grandfather, ANDREW PIERCE, came into Allegheny Co. with the Walls and Applegates, from New Jersey, and he (ANDREW) built the first mill on the Monongahela River. LOUIS PIERCE, subject’s grandfather, and AMOS PIERCE, his father, were both natives of Forward Twp., this county, and were born on the place now owned by DAVID PIERCE. AMOS PIERCE was born April 17, 1796, died Feb. 20, 1867; DEBORAH PIERCE, born Dec. 8, 1790, died April 12, 1875; LEWIS, born Feb. 3, 1822, died Aug. 29, 1860; MARY A., born July 17, 1832, died Nov. 1, 1869; JANE C., born Sept. 14, 1826, died Jan. 23, 1879; JAMES {Mck.}, born Aug. 12, 1820, died June 4, 1883. April 20, 1871, the subject of this memoir married HENRIETTA, daughter of DAVID and EMELINE (MACKEY) TORRENCE, of Pittsburgh, whose parents were among the old families of the city. MR. and MRS. PIERCE have three children: WILLIAM T., born March 27, 1872; JOSEPH A., born Aug. 31, 1874, and ANDREW C., born May 21, 1884. The parents were members of the U. P. Church. In 1854 MR. PIERCE went west and purchased a farm near Davenport, Iowa, moving onto the same in 1857. Here he remained until the spring of 1860, when he went to the gold-diggings on the Blue River, but, not being as successful as he had anticipated, he returned to the old farm in Allegheny Co., and has since here remained.
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