. The street railway review . II. I. PIERCE. TIIOM.^S W. WILSON. which is ihe company for llu- Inlernalional Railway Co. andthe Crosstown Street Railway Co., to succeeed Hon. W. Caryl Ely. Mr. Henry J. Pierce was born in Bath, Me., Aug. 29, 1857. Whilevery young, his parents moved to New York, where his father waspresident of Rutgers Female College for many years. Mr. Piercewent to Buffalo when 17 years of age, and in 1880 helped to organ-ize what i^ now known as the Wood Products Co., which handlesand refines over 90 per cent of all the wood alcohol made in thiscountry, and of which
. The street railway review . II. I. PIERCE. TIIOM.^S W. WILSON. which is ihe company for llu- Inlernalional Railway Co. andthe Crosstown Street Railway Co., to succeeed Hon. W. Caryl Ely. Mr. Henry J. Pierce was born in Bath, Me., Aug. 29, 1857. Whilevery young, his parents moved to New York, where his father waspresident of Rutgers Female College for many years. Mr. Piercewent to Buffalo when 17 years of age, and in 1880 helped to organ-ize what i^ now known as the Wood Products Co., which handlesand refines over 90 per cent of all the wood alcohol made in thiscountry, and of which company he is president. Mr. Pierce is alsopresident of the Chamber of Commerce, of Buffalo, and president ofthe Netherlands Tramways Corporation, which operates electric rail-ways in Amsterdam and Haarlem, Holland, a description of whichappeared in the Review for January. 1905. Mr. Pierce has alsobeen a director of the International Railway Co. since its incorpora-tion, and was one of the organizers of the Buffalo & Nia
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