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Fascinating Broadside to ROME CITIZENS (New York) concerning the National Educational Convention held in Philadelphia in relation to education & crime in Rome,New York. Broadside has one Oliver B.Pierce pleading to Ellias Gates of New York City that he needs, on behalf of the committee he represents, the updated reports to the relation of ignorance to crime and comparative cost of crime and education from Mr. Gates. Mr. Pierce and Vermont governor H.Eaton and John S.Ketchum of New York attended the National Educational Convention initially together.
Mr. Pierce also request statistics on convicts who were well educated to one's poorly educated etc...
Broadside measures 5 x 9 and is dated July 25th 1850
When Oliver Beale Pierce was born on 29 December 1808, in Zoar, Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Pierce IV, was 29 and his mother, Deborah Butler, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Hannah Niles Tibbits. He died on 16 June 1865, in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida, New York, United States.
Mr. Pierce also request statistics on convicts who were well educated to one's poorly educated etc...
Broadside measures 5 x 9 and is dated July 25th 1850
When Oliver Beale Pierce was born on 29 December 1808, in Zoar, Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Pierce IV, was 29 and his mother, Deborah Butler, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Hannah Niles Tibbits. He died on 16 June 1865, in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida, New York, United States.
