Silas Peirce

Silas Peirce
City of Boston Chairman
Board of Aldermen[1]
In office
1861[1]  1862[2]
Preceded by Otis Clapp[3]
Succeeded by Thomas Phillips Rich[4]
City of Boston Chairman
Board of Aldermen[5]
In office
1859[4]  1860[4]
Preceded by Joseph Wightman[6]
Succeeded by Otis Clapp[3]
City of Boston
Board of Aldermen[5]
In office
January 1857  January, 1862
City of Boston
Board of Aldermen[7]
In office
January, 1863  January, 1864
Personal details
Born February 15, 1793[4]
United States Scituate, Massachusetts[4][8]
Died August 27, 1879 (1879-08-28) (aged 86)[9]
United States Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation Grocer[10] and politician
Signature

Silas Peirce (February 15, 1793 – August 27, 1879) was an American grocer and politician who founded the wholesale grocer[10] Silas Peirce & Co, in Boston, Massachusetts.[8] in April, 1815.[11] The grocery firm of Silas Peirce & Co., Ltd. lasted 111 years.[10]

Political offices

Peirce served as Chairman and a member of the Boston Board of Aldermen.

Military service

From 1816 to 1822, Peirce served in the First Regiment, Third Brigade, Fourth Division of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.[8] In 1821 Peirce joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 City Clerk Statistics Department (1882), Municipal Register containing the City Charter the Rules and Orders of the City Council and a List of Officers for the City of Boston, For the Year 1882, Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, p. 328
  2. City Clerk Statistics, 1882. p. 329.
  3. 1 2 City Clerk Statistics, 1882. p. 327.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 City Clerk Statistics, 1920. p. 210.
  5. 1 2 City Clerk Statistics, 1882. p. 326.
  6. City Clerk Statistics, 1882. p. 325.
  7. City Clerk Statistics, 1882. p. 330-331.
  8. 1 2 3 Roberts, Oliver Ayer (1897), History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts Vol. II - 1738-1821, Boston, MA.: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, p. 449.
  9. Clapp, John Bouvé (1915), A century of service, 1815-1915, Boston, MA.: Silas Peirce & Co Limited, p. 34.
  10. 1 2 3 111-Year-Old Firm Loses Its Identity Silas Peirce & Co., Ltd., in New Consolidation, Boston, MA.: Christian Science Monitor, Apr 28, 1926, p. 4B.
  11. Clapp, 1915. p. 8.
  12. Roberts, Oliver Ayer (1897), History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts 1637-1888, Volume 2 1738-1821, Boston, MA.: The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, pp. 426, 449.
Political offices
Preceded by
Joseph Wightman
Chairman of the
Board of Aldermen
of

Boston, Massachusetts
1859–1860

Succeeded by
Otis Clapp


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