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Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
1817–1888
A 19th-century minister, educator, and writer, he moved between religious work and lively historical storytelling. His books range from missionary biography to portraits of life in the early American Southwest and recollections tied to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
2 Audiobooks
In the brush : or, Old-time social, political, and religious life in the southwest
by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia
by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
About the author
Born in New York in 1817, Hamilton Wilcox Pierson went on to study at Union College. Archival records describe him as a religious educator and note that he later served as president of Cumberland College in Kentucky.
Pierson wrote across several kinds of nonfiction. Library and archival records connect him with American Missionary Memorial (1853), Jefferson at Monticello (1862), and In the Brush; or, Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest (1881), showing a career that blended religious interests with biography, history, and regional observation.
He died in 1888. Though not widely known today, his work offers a window into 19th-century American religion, memory, and public life, especially in the South and Southwest.