Biography

10/21/1806 - 09/05/1873


PIERSON, Fayette, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, October 21, 1806 in Fairfield, Essex County, NJ; printer; editor and publisher, West Jersey Observer (1827-1837); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 term; editor and publisher, The Bridgeton Aurora (1862-1864); died, September 5, 1873 in Fairton, Cumberland County, New Jersey; interred, Old Stone Church Cemetery, Fairton, Cumberland County, New Jersey.


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