Stewart Pearce

Stewart Pearce

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Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1847 Representative Democrat
1848 Representative Democrat
1849 Representative Whig
Counties Columbia

Biography

11/26/1820 - 10/13/1882


PEARCE, Stewart, a Representative from Columbia County; born, November 26, 1820 in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa.; attended, Cazenovia Seminary; attended, Franklin Academy; studied law, S.F. Headley; farmer; engaged, milling business; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1847 and 1848 terms; reelected to the House as a Whig for the 1849 term; appointed, collector of tolls, Pennsylvania Canal and Columbia Railroad (1850-1852); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Wilkes-Barre (1869-1877); died, October 13, 1882 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

 

Bibliography


Pearce, Stewart.  Annals of Luzerne County: A Record of Interesting Events, Traditions and Anecdotes, from the First Settlement in Wyoming Valley to 1860.  J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1860.

Pearce, Stewart.  Annals of Luzerne County: A Record of Interesting Events, Traditions and Anecdotes, from the First Settlement in Wyoming Valley to 1860, second edition.   J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1866.


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