PIERPONT
PIERPONT
1884-87. He wrote numerous hymns, including :
" The Banner of Beauty and Glory," national
hymn of the Sons of Veterans, U.S.A. (1894);
"Lincoln's Prayer " (1895); "The Flag of the
Rising Sun," Japanese national hymn (1896),
and " No More Marching through Georgia" (1896).
He is also the author of : The Church Rejyublic, a
Romance of Methodism (1892); On to Louisville
(1895); De Tos'le Petah ub Kentucky, a Series of
Sketches in the Darky Dialect (1902).
PIERPONT, Francis Harrison, governor of Virginia, was born in Monongahela county, Va., Jan. 25, 1814 ; son of Francis and Catherine (Weaver) Pierpont ; grandson of John and Anne (Morgan) Pierpont ; great-grandson of Zaquil Morgan ; greats-grandson of Col. Morgan, who came from London to Delaware, and was an Episcopal clergyman as well as a soldier : and a descendant of William Pierrepont, one of the chief men- at-arms of William the Norman, through John Pierpont (Bos- ton, 1640 ; Roxbury, 1656), founder of the name in America. Francis Harrison
Pierpont removed to Fairmont, Va., with his parents in 1827, at- tended the public schools and assisted his father on the farm and in his tan-yard until 1835. He was graduated at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., in 1839 ; taught school in Mississippi, 1841-42 ; was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1842 ; settled in practice in Fairmont ; was a presidential elector on the Taylor ticket in 1848, and served as local council of the Baltimore and Ohio raUroad com- pany for Marion and Taylor counties, 1848-56. He engaged in mining and shipping coal by rail in 1858, and later in the manufacture of fire bricks. He became prominent as an uncom- promising Union man, and at the convention at Wheeling, Va., in 1861, was foremost in organiz- ing a provisional state government with Wheel- ing as the capital, and was chosen provisional governor of Virginia, holding this oflace for one year. He immediately organized twelve regi- ments of militia for service in the U.S. army ; was governor of the loyal portion of Virginia with the capitol at Wheeling, 1861-63, and during this time put more than 40,000 Union troops in the field. West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a separate state largely through his influence, June 19, 1863. He was governor of Virginia, 1863-68, and called the convention in
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February, 1864, which abolished slavery in the
state, and at the fall of Richmond in May, 1865,
removed the seat of government from Alexandria
to that city, and soon had the state reorganized.
He continued in office until April, 1868, his term
having expired in January. He resumed the
practice of law in Fairmont in 1868 ; represented
Marion county in the West Virginia legislature
in 1870, and served as U.S. collector of internal
revenue under President Garfield. The legisla-
ture of West Virginia caused his statue to be
placed in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. He
was married, Dec. 26, 1854, to Julia, daugliter of
the Rev. Samuel and Dorcas (Piatt) Robertson
of New York, and their daughter Anna (Pier-
pont) Siviter, became an Oriental scholar and
the author of Nelie, a picture of Persian court
life during the reign of Artaxerxes. During the
last years of his life, he resided with his daughter
in Pittsburg, Pa., where he died March 24, 1899.
PIERPONT, James, clergyman, was born in
Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 4, 1659; son of John and
Thankful (Stow) Pierpont. John Pierpont emi-
grated from London, England, to Boston, Mass.,.
in 1640, became a freeman in 1652 ; settled on an
estate of 300 acres in Roxbury, Mass., in 1656;
was a representative in the General Court in 1672,
and died in Ipswich, Mass. , 1682. James was grad-
uatedat Harvard, A.B., 1681, A.M., 1684 ; became
pastor of the church at New Haven, Conn., in
September, 1684, and was ordained July 2, 1685.
He was associated with the Rev. Samuel Andrew
and the Rev. Samuel Russell, in 1698, in laying^
plans which led to the founding of Yale college
in 1701, and his representation of the needs for
higher education in the colonies induced Elihu
Yale to become its first benefactor. He was a
fellow of Yale, 1701-14, and it is also stated that
he read lectures to the students at Yale as pro-
fessor of moral philosophy. He was a member
of the committee that considered the complaints
of England against the colony in 1705, and fur-
nished the agent there with directions and
answers. He also drew up what became known
as the Saybrook platform, adopted by the synod
for the administration of church discipline in
1708. He was married, first, Oct. 27, 1691, to
Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Pierson)
Davenport of New Haven ; secondly. May 30,
1694, to Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Joseph and
Sarah (Lord) Haynes ; and thirdly, July 26,
1698, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Thomas
Hooker of Hartford, Conn. His portrait,
painted in 1711, was presented to Yale by his
descendant, Edwards Pierrepont, in 1887. His
son John removed to Paulus Hook, N.J., about
1770, and from there to Virginia, built a fort
near Morgantown, married Anne Morgan, and
was the grandfather of Francis Harrison Pier-
