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PEIRCE. I'EKABO. 471 the Piromfield Street M. E. church ; director of the Boston North End Mission, and member of the board of trustees of the New England Conservatory of Music — covering, it will be seen, a wide range of financial, religious, philanthropic and artis- tic organizations. The rise of this well-known citizen of Boston, from comparative obscurity, fur- nishes an incentive and guide to any am- bitious young man who is just entering business life for himself. He began at the lowest round of the ladder ; he was in- dustrious, economical, honest and persever- ing. These were the elements of his char- acter ; these the factors that combined to make his success. As a business man, he possesses qualities that at once individualize him. He is aggressive and yet conserva- tive, courageous but safe in counsel. For five months of the year Mr. Peirce lives on a farm in Scituate. This farm was owned by his paternal ancestor in 1647, and has been owned and occupied by the direct descendants ever since, Mr. Peirce being the owner in the seventh generation. PEIRCE, Warren Appleton, was born in West Cambridge, Middlesex county, June 5, 1849. He is a descend- ant of Solomon Peirce, of Lexington, who was wounded in that battle, April 19, 1775 ; also of Benjamin Locke, captain of a company of minute men at the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. Peirce attended the Cotting Acad- emy in West Cambridge (now Arlington) three years, then the public schools until fifteen years old, when he engaged in regular work on his father's farm. He entered the Arlington high school at its opening in 1863. He remained at home until twenty-two years of age, afterward worked for his brother in the coal and wood business, and as station agent for six years, at Arlington, on the Boston & Lowell R. R.; then purchased the Lexington interest in his brother's business — coal, wood, hay, straw, and grain, lime, cement, fertilizers, etc. Five years later he purchased the business previously owned by his brother in Arlington, and now carries on the same at that town, where he resides, Arling- ton Heights and Lexington. Mr. Peirce was married by Rev. W. F. Potter, December 5, 18S2, at East Boston, to Jessie C, daughter of Jesse Bacon of Arlington. He has one son : Warren A., Jr., born October 23, 1887. He was president of the water board three years, 1884, '85, '86 ; selectman iSS6-'8q ; was a member of the lower branch of the General Court 1886-87, serving as clerk of the committee on water supply, and as a member of the committee on state-house. He is a prominent Odd Fellow and Free Mason ; is treasurer of the Adelphi Club, having held the office since its organiza- WARREN A PEIRCE. tion in 1878 ; is a director in the Arling- ton Boat Club, and has been a member of the William Perm Hose Company since its organization in 1872. He has been chairman of the Republi- can town committee since 1876, and is now serving a second term as a member of the Republican state central committee. PERABO, Johann Ernst, son of Michael and Christiane (Hiibner) Perabo, was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Novem- ber 14, 1845. He was educationally directed, first at home, later at Eimsbiittel, near Hamburg, in Johannes Andresen's boarding-school (i858-'62), lastly at the conservatory of music, Leipzig, Germany, from i862-'65, and again from 1878 to '79. With his father and mother he came to this country in 1S52. They settled for two years in New York City, where he formed the acquaintance of William Scharfenberg, who later on did much to develop the tal- ents of his young pupil.