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PIERCE, Henry Harlow (1833-1901) and Esther Ann (1837-1908)

A carpenter from Allegan County, Michigan, H. H. Pierce became a Sabbathkeeping Adventist in the mid-1850s and was elder of the Allegan church for some years. In 1859 he married Esther Morse, who had been a Sabbathkeeper since about 1849. He later helped in the construction of the Battle Creek (“Dime”) Tabernacle. In 1879 the family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where meetings were held in the Pierce home until a church was built in 1881. In 1883 and 1884 Pierce served as treasurer of the newly formed Colorado Conference. He received only incidental mention in the writings of Ellen White. 1EGWLM 877.5

See: Obituary: “Henry Harlow Pierce,” Review, Nov. 12, 1901, p. 742; obituary: “Esther Ann Pierce,” Review, Jan. 14, 1909, p. 23; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, “Henry H. Pierce,” Michigan, Calhoun County, Battle Creek, p. 25; History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan, p. 162; SDAE, s.v. “Colorado Conference”; Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Battle Creek, Mich.: Seventh-day Adventist Pub. Assn., 1884), p. 24; Ellen G. White, Ms 5, 1859 (Feb. 3, 12 entries); Ms 4, 1860 (Dec.). 1EGWLM 878.1