See also
1 Evelyn PEIRCE1 ( - ) [9996].
In the Fay family papers collection, 1800-1953, Radcliffe College, Evelyn Peirce is mentioned as a niece of Amy Fay's. This is the only reference we have to her, but assume she is a daughter of Melusina and Charles Peirce.
2 Charles Santiago Sanders PEIRCE2,3,4,5,6 (1839-1914) [9942]. Born 10 Sep 1839, Cambridge, MA.4 Marr Harriet Melusina FAY btw 16 Oct 1861 and 1863.3,4,7 Div 24 Apr 1883.7 Div. Died 19 Apr 1914, Milford, PA.7 Cause: Cancer. Buried Milford Cemetery, Milford, PA.8
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.".
4 Benjamin PEIRCE4 ( - ) [9974].
5 Sara Hunt MILLS4 ( - ) [9975].
10 Elijah Hunt MILLS4 ( - ) [9976].
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
3 Harriet Melusina FAY2,3,4,9 (1836-1923) [9941]. Born 24 Feb 1836, Burlington, VT.4,9 Died 28 Apr 1923, Watertown, MA.10
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
October 28, 1873 - Mrs Zina Fay Pierce told the women of Boston, lssst week, why they should not want to vote. Among her arguments was the assertion that women could not adhere to party lines, but would follow the dictate of their hearts."
From the Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898.
HARRIET M. FAY (3070) - She was familiarly called "Zina". Author of a book on "Co-operative Housekeeping," also a pamphlet on the "History of the Democratic Party," which Mr. Gladstone had read with great interest. She has also written various articles for the Atlantic Monthly and Music and Art Criticisms for numerous papers in Boston, N.Y. and Chicago. She has written a pretty severe review of "Daniel Derondo." She dislikes George Elliot's "No Religion." She married Charles S. Peirce. She was once an intense Democrat and refused to sit on a platform at a meeting of women with Horace Greely.
Mr. Peirce's father is Prof. Peirce of Harvard College, from which Mr. Peirce graduated in the Class of 1859. He was the author of the "Logic of Relatives" in the memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of 1870, and various papers on Logic, published in the proceedings of that academy in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy delivered before the Lowell Institute at Boston, and at Harvard University about 1869, also a memoir on Observations on the Light of Fixed Stars, presented to the American Academy in 1875. He is now (1876) in the service of the United States Coast Survey, engaged in pendulum experiments to determine the density of the earth. (Pierce Family Genealogical Record.)
From the Boston Daily Globe.
April 29, 1923 - "Mrs. Melusina Fay-Peirce, 87, prominent id patriotic movements as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died today at the home of Mrs. Nellie B. Smith, with whom she had lived for Many years. Mrs. Fay-Peirce had long been an invalid.
She was one of the earlier supporters of cooperative housekeeping and had written articles upon that subject. She was instrumental in having preserved in New York, the Edgar Allan Poe House and an old tavern where George Washington is said to have made his farewell address. Funeral services will be held Monday at Mt. Auburn.
Mrs. Fay-Peirce was born in Burlington, Vt. Her father was Rev. Charles Fay, a prominent Episcopalian clergyman of his time, closely identified with Boston. She was married in the sixties to Charles S. Peirce, a scientific man whose specialties were astronomy and mathematics, and who was also identified with the United States Coast Survey. The family hoe was for a time Cambridge, then in Chicago, and later in New York city.
The survivors are four sisters and on brother, those being Mrs. William B. Stone of Cambridge, Miss Amy Fay of New York, Mrs. Theodore Thomas of Cambridge and Mrs. Charles B. Wilmerding of New York, and Charles Norman Fay of Cambridge.".
Note on Marriage to Charles Santiago Sanders PEIRCE: Various sources show their marriage year as 1861, 1862 and 1863.
6 Charles FAY2,3 (1808-1888) [9919]. Born 21 Jul 1808.3 Marr Charlotte Emily HOPKINS 5 Sep 1833, Burlington, VT.3 Marr Sophronia B. ADAMS 9 May 1864.3 Died 6 Nov 1888, New York City, NY.2 Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA.2
From the Chicago Tribune.
November 16, 1888 - "Death of a Venerable Episcopal Minister.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Fay, some time a resident of this city, died at the house of Mrs. M.F. Peirce, No 7 East Thirty-first street, New York, the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1888. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass, upon the Friday following.
Dr. Fay was born in Cambridge July 21, 1808, and was therefore in his 81st year. He was the son of the Hon. S.P.P. Fay and his wife, Harriet Howard Fay. He was graduated at Harvard - as were his father, grandfather and great-grandfather - in the celebrated class of 1829, of which he was the valedictorian. Among his classmates were the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Dr. Oliver Wendal Holmes, Prof. Benjamin Peirce, the Rev. Charles F. Smith, the Rev. Samuel May, William Gray, and other noted men, and was the fiftieth of his class to depart this life. Twelve survive, several of whom were present at his funeral. He was married twice; his first wife was a daughter of the Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont, and his second, who survives him, is a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Adams of Grand Isle. He leaves seven children, several of whom were residents of this cit
He was for forty years a successful minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, chiefly in the Diocese of Vermont, but had long retired from active service.".
12 Samuel Phillips Prescott FAY3,11,12,13,14 (1778-1856) [4360]. Born 10 Jan 1778, Concord, MA.3,11,12,13 Marr Harriet HOWARD 1801.3 Died 18 May 1856, Cambridge, MA.3,13,15
From the History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890.
"Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, son of Jonathan Fay, of Concord, was born in that own January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803, in the class with John Farrar, James Savage and Samuel Willard. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1803 and first settled at Cambridgeport. He was a councilor in 1818-19, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and an overseer of Harvard College from 1825 to 1852. On the 12th of May, 1821, he was appointed judge of Probate and afterwards lived in old Cambridge until his death, May 18, 1856."
From the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA).
May 20, 1856 - "DEATH OF JUDGE FAY. The venerable Hon. Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay, of Cambridge, died in that city on Sunday last. The deceased was Judge of Probate for Middlesex County for a long term of years, and was a man universally respected and esteemed. He was the disciple of Dr. William E. Channing, Judge Story, Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, and other noted men, having graduated at Harvard in 1798. His age was 78.".
13 Harriet HOWARD3,11,14 (1782-1847) [4361]. Born 1782.11 Died 28 Jul 1847, Cambridge, MA.16
7 Charlotte Emily HOPKINS17 (1817-1856) [9934]. Born 4 May 1817, the Hermitage, PA.3 Died 23 Sep 1856, St. Albans, VT.3
14 John Henry HOPKINS3,17 ( - ) [9935]. Marr Melusina MULLER May 1816.17
15 Melusina MULLER17 ( - ) [9938]. Born Hamburg, Germany.17
| 1 | "Fay family papers collection, 1800-1953, Radcliffe College". |
| 2 | "Obituary of Rev. Charles Fay in the New York Times, November 7, 1888". |
| 3 | "Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants by Orlin P. Fay, 1898". |
| 4 | "Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, 1904". |
| 5 | "M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collectoins and Archives - Microfilm Editions of Archival Collections, P. 1 of 1". |
| 6 | "Peirce, Charles Sanders. The Charles S. Peirce Papers & Supplement to teh Microfilm Edition of the Charles.. P. 1 of 1". |
| 7 | "MacTutor History of Mathematics". |
| 8 | "Where They're Buried, 1998". |
| 9 | "1880 IL, Cook, Chicago census". |
| 10 | "Obituary of Melusina Fay-Peirce in the Boston Daily Globe, April 29, 1923". |
| 11 | "Information provided by Jeffery H. Lloyd". |
| 12 | "History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck, 1835". |
| 13 | "History of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1890". |
| 14 | "Ancestors of George W. Bush *1946 (explanations) by William Addams Reitwiesner". |
| 15 | "Obituary of Judge Fay in the Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), May 20, 1856". |
| 16 | "Death notice of Mrs. Harriet Fay in the Daily Atlas (Boston, MA), August 5, 1847". |
| 17 | "History of Chuttenden County, Vermont edited by W.S. Rann, 1886". |