Elizabeth Benedict Pierson (1845)

Born 1 Feb 1845 in Hartford, CT, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Lizzie Benedict Pierson was probably born in Orange, New Jersey, before 1850.^[1] She moved with her parents in 1850 (if she was born in Orange), to Hartford, Conn.^[2] Sometime after her father died in 1863 at Hartford, she moved to Andover, Mass., where she was the author of Pierson Genealogical Records, published in 1878.^[3]

After writing the book, she went to China in 1878 to be a missionary with her brother, Rev. Isaac Pierson who had earlier gone to China in 1870 as a missionary.^[4] She entrusted her book to Rev. George Rogers Howell (author of The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York) as editor and to ensure its publication, which occurred March 1878.^[5]

It is unknown to the authors of Pierson Millennium if she married, if she returned to China, or when she died.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Pierson Millennium
2. ↑ Pierson Millennium
3. ↑ Pierson Millennium
4. ↑ Pierson Millennium
5. ↑ Pierson Millennium
6. ↑ Pierson Millennium

• https://archive.org/stream/ogdenfamilyiname00whee#page/340/mode/2up.
• Pierson, Richard E. and Pierson, Jennifer. Pierson Millennium. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007.