Person:Henry Pierce (9)

from HPP's history:

"He attended school in Bath, and completed his education at his father's schoo, "Rutger's Female Institute," then on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City. He married Violetta Edwards Ross in Philadelphia, and moved to Buffalo, NY shortly afterward when he was nineteen years old. He was early successful in business. He was president and founder of a company manufacturing wood alcohol, and later became president of the local street car company. He was a president of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Buffalo Club, and a member of the S.A.R. He organized and was president of the Netherlands Tramways Company, which owned a system of railways in Holland. While there he became acquainted with Queen Wilhelmina. He was a director of J.G. White and Company. He was president of several subsidiaries of Electric Bond and share. He was vice-chairman of the American Section of the World Power conference (1920). He organized the European Gas and Electric Corp (1929) to drill oil wells in Portugal and Hungary. At eighty-two he was president of the Anglo-Portugal Oil Company, an English firm. He was the youngest director of the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, and was a close friend of President McKinley, and was one of his pall-bearers. He kept contact with his English cousins, and was on intimate terms with the last Earl of Camperdown, and visted Lord and Lady Morley at Camperdown House, near Dundee and Gleneagles, the ancestral home of the Haldanes, Lairs of Glen Eagles. After the death of his firt wife, he married Mary Daly. ... Henry J. Pierce was a very handsome man, well built, six feet tall, with dark hair and blue eyes. "