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Full name
Edward Lillie Pierce
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
8
Family
Jesse Pierce (father), Elizabeth S. Lillie (mother), Elizabeth H. Kingsbury (first wife - died 1880), Maria Louisa Whitehead (second wife - two children)
Education
Harvard
Other
Other Education
Brown University, Harvard Law School
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Free Soil
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Other
Other Affiliation
Freeman's Bureau
Government
Hayes Administration (1877-81)
State legislature
State judge
Other state government
Local government
Military
Union Army