Charles T. Pierce

Stanstead Journal

  • Vol. V, Nº46, 12 sept 1850
    • Cordonnier à Rock Island
  • Vol. 13, N°52, 11 nov 1858
    • Cordonnier
  • Vol. 17, N°25, 22 mai 1862
    • CHARLES PIERCE
      • Manufacture importante de chaussures
  • Vol. 19, N°43, 22 sept 1864
    • CHARLES PIERCE
      • Cordonnier
  • Article du Stanstead Journal: « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », 14 février 1952 (biographical sketches)
    • Austin T. Foster: Came in 1838, worked with Spalding
      • 1865: bought the building, machinery and stock belonging to the estate of Charles Pierce.
    • Charles Pierce: shoemaker
      • Purchased the site of the overall factory next to the Journal office (bought the old MacAndrew tailor’s shop of Morrill & Holmes and moved it there)
      • Built a dam on the river, erected a factory besides and continued to manufacture boots and shoes. (d. 1865)

Forests and clearings (original publishing July 15, 1874)

  • Charles Pierce:
    • From 1834 to 1840, but little change occurred in the settlement. Willard Wood, Benjamin Wyman, and others were actively engaged in business and acquired property. Charles Pierce, an enterprising mechanic, built extensively, and laid the foundation for a large business in the manufacture of boots and shoes. He died suddenly and the business passed into the hands of Austin Foster. (p. 34-35)

John Lovell, "Canada Directory, 1857-58"

  • PIERCE, CHARLES, manufacturer of every variety of warranted custom boots and shoes, wholesale.

Robert W. S. Mackey, The Canada Directory, 1851

p. 361

  • Pierce, C., shoemaker.

Putnam & Gray, Map of the District of St. Francis, Canada East, 1863

  • ROCK ISLAND AND DERBY LINE DIRECTORY
    • Pierce, Chas. Boot & Shoe Manufacturer (Wholesale & Retail)

S.H.S. Collection

  • STANSTEAD J – STEVENS. F3T2. Stanstead Journal, file 2 of 2. Brochure rédigée par Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », Rock Island, Heritage Technologies, 1986, 16 p.
    • Document sur l’histoire du Stanstead Journal, de ses dirigeants et des bâtisses qui l’ont abrité.
      • Au sujet de Charles Pierce : [Citant Susan E. Blodgett, la plus jeune fille de Moses Pierce et la soeur de Charles] "Charles Pierce was six years of age when our father brought his family to Rock Island in 1824. Before he was eight of age, he met with an accident while on the ice above th upper dam, which not only made him a cripple for life, but also was the cause of most acute suffering throughout his boyhood and early manhood. [...] As he reached maturity, there were longer intervals between his periods of acute suffering. He learned the shoemaker's trade and began to work at custom shoemaking and cobbling to help support the family. [Fin de la citation de Mrs. Blodgett] Charles Pierce is a classic exemple of the self-made man. A couple of years before he came of age, he rented a room in the village and went into the cobbling business for himself. When ha had earned a bit of money, he invested it in materials, made a few dozen pairs of walking shoes and kids slippers, and travelled about the nearby townships until he had sold them all. This process he repeated until he had saved enough money to buy the plot of land where th Rock Island Canadian Customs Office stands today, onto which he moved an old tailor's shop that he had purchased. His boot and shoe making business continued to expand. In 1859-60, having sold his shop and had it moved across the street, Charles Pierce built a dam across the Tomifobia River, installed a water wheel, and put up a brand new factory. [...] He bought some more land in 1861. This plot was situated on the east bank of the river, opposite his business, and across the way from his parents' home, on what is now called Church Street. In 1862-63, he built a large house for himself. This house - the Charles Pierce Place - is today known as the Old Journal Building. [...] Charles Pierce did not have long to enjoy the fruits of his labor. On October 19, 1865, just two years after his house had been completed, he died at the age of forty-seven. He had never married. [...] The boot and shoe factory was sold to Austin T. Foster in 1866 but the house on Church Street remained in the family's possession for many years".

BANQ

  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S24 William Ritchie.
    • Acte : # 3532
    • Date : 21 décembre 1841
    • Deed of Sale from Lathrop Chamberlin, Trader of the Town of Derby (Vt.), to William H. Holmes and Ozro Morrill, carrying on trade and commerce together as merchants under the firm of “Holmes & Morrill” in the Township of Stanstead.
      • Résumé : Vente d’un terrain faisant partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du canton de Stanstead, terrain décrit ainsi : « Beginning on the East side of the Highway at the North East corner post of a certain Bridge erected on Stanstead river running through said lot from thence running along said road about a North Easterly Course eighty feet, thence at right angles with the said road running a South Easterly Course until […] the center of said river thence down said river to the place of beginning, together with the privilege of erecting all water works and machinery on said premises, but not to dam up the water on said river higher than the common highest water mark and not to erect any Grist Mill, Saw Mill, Fulling Mill, nor Carding machine […] ». [Le même terrain est revendu par Holmes et Morrill à Charles Pierce, le 21 octobre 1842, acte no 3679].
  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
    • Acte : # 7292
    • Date : 15 février 1861
    • Deed of Sale by Asa Burton Nelson, Trader of the Township of Stanstead, to Charles Pierce, Boot Manufacturer of the Town of Derby (Vt.).
      • Résumé : Vente de deux parties du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …distinguished firstly as the equal Easterly half of all that part of a certain part and parcel of land […] which one John W. Baxter and one Samuel L. French heretofore acquired from William H. Holmes and Ozro Morrill and heretofore held in common between them, that lies South of a certain Bye road, leading across the river between the Yellow Store of Portus Baxter Esquire and the Store, now owned and occupied by Carlos F. Haskell […]. And Secondly […] another part of the said Lot […] being the Equal Westerly Half of that portion of the said tract of land heretofore held in common between the said John W. Baxter and Samuel L. French, that lies South of the said Bye road […] bounded as follows to the North by the said Bye road, to the Southe by the land of Joseph Woolley, to the East by the highway leading from Erastus Lee’s to the Province line and to the West by the said line drawn by the said late Joseph Kilborn, the said lat Land Surveyor and being the same land whereon on Mark Hall has recently built a dwelling house, which is hereby reserved for said Mark Hall […] ». L’ensemble est vendu pour la somme de 275 dollars.
  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
    • Acte : # 8036
    • Date : 13 janvier 1863
    • Deed of Sale by Charles Pierce, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer of the Township of Stanstead, to Mark Hall, Trader of the same place.
      • Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being the North portion of the East half of that part of the said Lot, which the aid Vendor […] acquired from one Asa Burton Nelson […] bounded […] to the North by a certain Bye road, leading across the River at Rock Island, between the Yellow Store of Portus Baxter and the Store now owned and occupied by Carlos F. Haskell, Eastwardly, to the road leading from Erastus Lee’s to the Province line, to the East by the road last above mentioned, to the West by the West part of that part of the said lot […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 119 dollars. [Pierce avait acheté ce terrain de Nelson, voir # 7292. L’acte # 8037 règle les détails financiers de la transaction]
  • Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.
    • Acte : # 9642
    • Date : 7 janvier 1869
    • Deed of Sale by Tillotson Pierce, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer of the Township of Stanstead, and Eugene B. Chase, Farmer of the Town of Derby (Vt.), as two of the Executors of the last Will of the late Charles Pierce, to Mark Hall, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer of the Township of Stanstead.
      • Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being the North portion of the East half of that part of the said Lot which the said late Charles Pierce […] acquired from one Asa Burton Nelson […] bounded […] to the North by a certain Bye road leading across the River at Rock Island, between the Yellow Store formerly owned by Portus Baxter and the Store formerly owned and occupied by Carlos F. Haskell, Eastwardly to the Road leading from the late Erastus Lee’s to the Province line, to the East by the Road last above mentioned, to the West by the West part of that part of the said lot […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme symbolique de 1 dollars. [Voir # 7292 et 8036]

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