Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . E, F. PHILLIPS. Mass.; of this union were born : Eugene Rowland,now a superintendent in the American ElectricalWorks, Edith Josephine, Frank Nichols, now astudent in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, Boston, and Grace, who died in March 1883. MEN OF PROGRESS. 59 PEIRCE, Arthur Clarence, physician and sur-geon, was born November 15, 1858, at Dighton,Mass., the son of Isaac and EHzabeth A. (Adams)Peirce. He comes of old New England
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . E, F. PHILLIPS. Mass.; of this union were born : Eugene Rowland,now a superintendent in the American ElectricalWorks, Edith Josephine, Frank Nichols, now astudent in the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, Boston, and Grace, who died in March 1883. MEN OF PROGRESS. 59 PEIRCE, Arthur Clarence, physician and sur-geon, was born November 15, 1858, at Dighton,Mass., the son of Isaac and EHzabeth A. (Adams)Peirce. He comes of old New England stock. Hisancestor, Capt. Michael Peirce, born in England. A. C. PEIRCE. about 1615, came to America in 1645, and locatedat Hingham, Mass. He was commissioned a captainof troops by the colonial authorities in 1669, andwas killed in battle with the Narragansett Indiansunder Chief Canonchet, at Attleboro Gore, March26, 1676. The Hne of descent is : Ephraim Peirce,died 1719; Ephraim Peirce, born 1674; DavidPeirce, 1701-1767; David Peirce, 1726-1801 ; DavidPeirce, 1768-1847; Isaac Peirce, 1814; Arthur C,1858. He received his early education in the pubhcschools of Dighton. He adopted medicine as a profes-sion, and took one course at Rush Medical College,Chicago, one course at the College of Physiciansand Surgeons, Chicago, one course at the KentuckySchool of Medicine, Louisville, Ky., from which hereceived the degree of M. D., June 26, 1883. Hepractised medicine in Dighton, Mass., from 1883 to 1886, and settled in Drownville, R. I., December 1887, where he remained until December 1895, atwhich time he removed to Riverside, where he isnow engaged i
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