Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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uBe it ever so humble, tharis 720 place like home.

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SILAS PEIRCE ILAS PEIRCE, Treasurer of Boston University and since 1899 a member of the Board of Trustees, died suddenly at his residence, 175 Harvard Street, Brookline, on Sunday afternoon, December 10. Al- though for several months he had not been in good health, the announce- ment of his death was a distinct shock to the University community. BIL Peirce was born in Boston, August 16, 1860. NIr. Peirce graduated from the Boston English High School in 1878 and immediately entered the employ of the Wholesale grocery firm of Silas Peirce 8 Co., which was established in 1815 by his great-uncle, Silas Peirce. When the young man entered the employ of this ho'use in 1878 his father, Silas Peirce Qd, was a partner. NIr. Peirce later became in turn a partner in the firm, and upon the incorporation of the business as Silas Peirce dk C0,, Ltd., he became President and a director, holdng these offices until his death. Besides his business connection with this corporation, he was a director of the Northern Railroad and 0f the Old Corner Book Store. He was an ex-president 0f the Boston Wholesale Grocers, Association and. from 1904 un til its affairs were liquidated, he was a director and President of the North American Insurance Company of Boston. He was also a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, the Boston Chamber of Commerce. and the Seituate Historical Society. -Bostonia, January, 1923

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Courtesy 0f the United States Air Service and the Boston Herald T herds no such thing in nature?