Jabez Pierce or Peirce (1806 – ?) was a carpenter and miner from Mineral Point, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 1849 (2nd Wisconsin Legislature).[1]
Public office
editHe was elected in 1848 to represent the Southern Iowa County Assembly district, which at that time included the area which would become Richland County, defeating Whig nominee John Carter.[2] He succeeded fellow Democrat Abner Nichols. At the time he took office in the Assembly (January 1849), he was reported as being 42 years of age, a carpenter and miner, from Massachusetts, and as having been in Wisconsin for ten years.[3] He was succeeded in the Assembly by Moses M. Strong, another Democrat.
Gold rush
editPierce is listed as among the prominent residents of Mineral Point who left for California during the California Gold Rush.[4] As of February 6, 1851, he was listed as one of the "Mineral Point Delegation in California", but not among those marked either as "died in California or on the way" or among those who had returned to Mineral Point.[5]
References
edit- ^ State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999), p. 92.
- ^ "Whig Nominations", Wisconsin Tribune October 27, 1848; p. 2, col. 1 via Newspapers.com
- ^ [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20714176/solon-johnson-list-of-all-assembly-membe/ "List of Members of the Assembly of the State of Wisconsin" Wisconsin Express January 30, 1849; p. 4; via Newspapers.com
- ^ "California Emigrants" History of Iowa County, Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages--their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies; its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and constitution and of the constitution of the United States. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881; p. 678
- ^ "Mineral Point Delegation in California". Wisconsin Tribune February 6, 1851; p. 2, col. 3; via Newspapers.com