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Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880

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Personal name headingPeirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880
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Variant(s)Peirce, B. (Benjamin), 1809-1880
Birth date1809
Death date1880
AffiliationHarvard University
Profession or occupationCorrespondent Mathematician Astronomer Surveyor
Found inNUCMC data from U. of SC, Caroliniana Lib. for Morris-Rutherfurd family papers, 1717-1889 (Benjamin Peirce, correspondent of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd)
DAB, 1935 (Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880), mathematician and astronomer; grad. Harvard, 1829; 49 yrs. at Harvard; [including] 9 yrs. (1833-42) as univ. professor of astronomy and mathematics; took active part in the foundation of Harvard Observatory)
Seguin Island to Kennebunkport, Maine, 1884: map recto (B. Pierce, superintendent of the survey of the coast of the United States)