Henry M. (Henry Miller) Pierce

Henry M. Pierce, identified in library records as Henry Miller Pierce (1831–1902), is known from surviving 19th-century publications rather than from a large modern biographical record. A University of Michigan library entry for Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College credits him as the author and gives his full name and dates as 1831–1902.

That address, delivered in 1867, is the work most clearly associated with him in the sources I could confirm. It places him in the conversation around women's education in the United States just after the Civil War, and the tone of the piece helps explain why it still attracts attention from digital libraries and reprint editions.

Reliable personal detail about his life appears to be scarce in the sources I found, so it is safer to remember him primarily through that published address and its historical moment than to overstate the facts of his career.