George Edmond Pierce
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rev. George Edmond Pierce was an American minister and the second President of Western Reserve College, now Case Western Reserve University. Pierce was born in Southbury, Conn, September 9, 1794. His father was Samuel Pierce, and his mother Martha, daughter of Robert Edmond, from Ireland. He graduated from Yale College in 1816. After graduation, he taught in Fairfield Academy for two years, and was for the next three years a member of Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Harwinton, Conn., July 10, 1822, and continued so until June 1834, when he was dismissed to accept the Presidency of the Western Reserve College, in Hudson, Ohio. He entered on his new duties in the next month, and remained in office twenty one years. In 1843, Pierce began the Medical Department of Western Reserve College, known today as the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. After his resignation his residence continued in Hudson, till his sudden death, May 27, 1871.
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