The Life and Public Services of Gen. Franklin Pierce
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Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of Gen. Franklin Pierce: The Democratic Candidate for the Presidency of 1852 He married twice, and had by his first wife one daughter, the widow of General John McNeil, and by his second wife five sons and three daughters. One of the daughters died in infancy, and the other two died in 1837, leaving families. Of the sons the oldest, Benjamin K., was a gallant officer of the army, who distinguished himself in the Florida war; and the second, also, was connected with the army, and attained the rank of brevet colonel. These are both dead. Another died in early manhood. The remaining sons are Col. Henry D. Pierce, of Hillsborough - a farmer of great personal worth and of much wealth, who has represented his town in the legislature - and the subject of this memoir. Franklin Pierce was born in Hillsborough November 23, 1804. He was sent to the neighboring schools of Hancock and Francestown - living in the latter place with the mother of the late Levi Woodbury, to whom he pays a grateful tribute for the salutary influence she exercised over his early boyhood. His academic studies were pursued at Exeter academy. In 1820, in his sixteenth year, he entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated, with credit, in 1824. Dr. Calvin E. Stowe was one of his class. His agreeable manners, manly bearing, social turn and fine talents, made him a general favorite; and among his intimate friends were Hon. James Bell, of Manchester, and Dr. Luther V. Bell, the head of the McLean Asylum, of Somerville, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Jonathan Cilley, and James Mason, son of Jeremiah Mason. Three years were subsequently passed in preparatory studies in the offices of Hon. Edmund Parker, of Amherst, and of Hon. Levi Woodbury, of Portsmouth, N. H., and in the law school of Judge Samuel Howe, of Northampton, Massachusetts. The productions of Mr. Pierce bear witness that these early and priceless advantages for thorough culture were well improved; while the admiration and friendship entertained for him by college contemporaries, who subsequently became ornaments of their profession, was but the commencement of that favor which he has since uniformly attracted towards him. Mr. Pierce in 1827 opened a law office in Hillsborough, opposite the residence of Governor Pierce. At this time the latter enjoyed a wide and just popularity in New Hampshire, and this year he was elected governor. The succeeding year, in consequence of the division in the republican party on the presidential question - a part declaring for General Jackson and a part for Mr. Adams - Governor Pierce, who was a "Jackson man," was defeated. The fruits of this anti-democratic victory were the election, by a small majority, of John Bell governor, and of Hon. Samuel Bell United States senator. The next year, however, Governor Pierce was re-elected. It was in the midst of these stirring scenes that Mr. Pierce commenced the practice of his profession. He had, to favor his advancement in business relations and in political life, it is true, the wide influence of his father; but the great success that immediately attended him would have been but transient, had he not manifested ability, industry, energy and fidelity. These won for him a reputation as wide as it was solid. Mr. Pierce took a zealous part in politics, and in 1829 he was elected representative from his native town, and again the three successive years. This was an era in the political history of New Hampshire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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