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Life Summary
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
