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1 Charles Santiago Sanders PEIRCE1,2,3,4,5 (1839-1914) [9942]. Born 10 Sep 1839, Cambridge, MA.3 Marr Harriet Melusina FAY btw 16 Oct 1861 and 1863.2,3,6 Div 24 Apr 1883.6 Div. Died 19 Apr 1914, Milford, PA.6 Cause: Cancer. Buried Milford Cemetery, Milford, PA.7
From Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, 1904.
"PEIRCE, Charles Sanders, scientist was born in Cambridge, Mass., Sept 10, 1839; son of Benjamin and Sarah Hunt (Mills) Peirce, and grandson of Banjamin Peirce, historian of Harvard college, and of Elijah Hunt Mills, U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862, and from the Lawrence Scientific school S.B., 1863. Entering the service of the U.S. coast survey, and in 1872 made assistant in that capacity, he undertook important investigations on the density and ellipticity of the each, on metrology, measurements of light waves, etc. His researches into logic, history of science, sensation of color and stellar photometry, are well known. He was twice married, first in 1862, to Melusina Fay (q.v.), secondly to Juliette Froissy of Nancy, France. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The National Academy of Sciences, in 1877, and other scientific bodies admitted him to membership; Harvard college and Johns Hopkins university appointed him to lectureships on logic, and in 1869 and 1892 he delivered courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston. He is the author of: Photometric Researches (1878); frequent contributions to the Nation and of the journals, and many memoirs and articles on logic, psychology, metaphysics, mathematics, gravitation, astronomy, optics, chemistry, engineering, library cataloguing and early English pronunciation; edited, with additions, "Studies in Logic by Members of the John Hopkins University" (1883), and Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce (1882); contributed most of the philosophical and many other definitions in the "Century Dictionary." and wrote many articles in the "Dictionary of Psychology and Philosophy."
From the Atlanta Constitution.
April 22, 1914 - "New York, April 31, - Word was received here last night of the death on Sunday in his mountain cabin near Milford, Pa., of Charles Sanford Santiago Peirce, logician, mathematician and philosopher. He was 74 years old and for twenty-seven years had lived in seclusion to pursue his studies. His death was due to cancer.
In his retreat his only companion was his second wife, who was Juliette Froissy, descendant of a noted French family. His first wife, Mrs. Melisina Fay Peirce, lives in Chicago.
After his retirement his seclusion was broken only by infrequent visits to Harvard, where he lectured on logic and attended conferences of scholars interested in similar studies.
Mr. Peirce was the author of numerous articles upon logic, history of science, metaphysics, psychology, mathematics, astronomy and chemistry. He edited many of the noted works of his father, the late Professor Benjamin Peirce, of Harvard, a leading mathematician.
Mr. Peirce was a cousin of United States Senator Lodge.".
2 Benjamin PEIRCE3 ( - ) [9974].
3 Sara Hunt MILLS3 ( - ) [9975].
6 Elijah Hunt MILLS3 ( - ) [9976].
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
| 1 | "Obituary of Rev. Charles Fay in the New York Times, November 7, 1888". |
| 2 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 3 | "Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, 1904". |
| 4 | "M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collectoins and Archives - Microfilm Editions of Archival Collections, P. 1 of 1". |
| 5 | "Peirce, Charles Sanders. The Charles S. Peirce Papers & Supplement to teh Microfilm Edition of the Charles.. P. 1 of 1". |
| 6 | "MacTutor History of Mathematics". |
| 7 | "Where They're Buried, 1998". |