Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson

Born in 1817, Hamilton Wilcox Pierson was an American Baptist minister and writer. Library and publishing records identify him as the author of American Missionary Memorial: Including Biographical and Historical Sketches, first published in 1853, a substantial volume that combines a survey of missionary work with biographical sketches of missionaries.

Pierson also wrote other works, including Recollections of a Long Life. The surviving record suggests a man interested in preserving religious history and personal experience for later readers, especially within the Protestant world of the nineteenth century.

He died in 1888. Although he is not widely known today, his books remain useful to readers interested in missionary history, nineteenth-century American religious culture, and the biographical writing of that era.