This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography: Peirce, Helms, Jenkins, Russell, Henwood, Jemison, Foulke, Larson, Williams, Blair, ROLLO JOSEPH PEIRCE, physician and surgeon at Richmond, has a number of interesting family connections in this section of Eastern Indiana, where his people have lived since pioneer times and where they have honored the name by their industry, worthy influence In community affairs and by their personal character. Doctor Peirce was born at Abington Township, Wayne County, September 4, 1872, a son of John Benjamin and Phoebe (Helms) Peirce and grandson of Benjamin and Lourena (Jenkins) Peirce and Isaiah and Jane (Russell) Helms. One of the very early settlers of Wayne County was Michael Helms, who came from Virginia. Isaiah Helms was born in Abington Township of Wayne County, January 25, 1814, and his wife was born in Cheater Township of the same county December 5, 1819. The Peirce family is of New England stock. Michael Peirce came from England about 1645, eventually established a home at Scituate, Massachusetts, and was killed by Indians. Doctor Peirce’s grandfather, Benjamin Peirce, was born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and at the age of twenty-one went to Canada. He became a canal contractor, and this was work that took him to many localities and eventually he came to Wayne County to build a canal along the Whitewater River. He also sent for his parents, but his father died on the way west and was buried at Miami town, Ohio. Doctor Peirce’s father was born in Washington Township and his mother in Abington Township of Wayne County, and after their marriage they located on a farm in Abington Township. While engaged in farming he taught school for eighteen years. John Benjamin Peirce was born in 1846 and died in November, 1924, and his wife passed away in 1915, at the age of sixty-two. Rollo Joseph Peirce grew up in a country district of Wayne County, attended public schools and was graduated from the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute in 1895. In 1897 he completed the liberal arts course of the University of Indiana. When he was seventeen years of age he taught one term of school in Abington Township and another when he was nineteen. After finishing his university course he taught for two years in the high school at Martinsville and three years at Logansport. While teaching he defrayed a large part of his expenses while in university and medical school. He was graduated in 1905 from the Indiana Medical College, and in the same year located at Richmond, where for over a quarter of a century he has enjoyed an increasing reputation as a very capable and high-minded doctor, faithful to all the obligations of his profession. He has combined office and residence at 119 South Ninth Street. Doctor Peirce married, in 1893, Miss Rosa Henwood, who was born in Abington Township, Wayne County, daughter of John S. and Cynthia. (Jemison) Henwood. Her father was born in the same locality and her mother was a native of Fayette County, Indiana. Doctor and Mrs. Peirce had three children: Frances L., wife of Rodney Foulke, of Richmond; Clara, graduated from Earlham College, and taught school for two years at Weippe, Idaho, and one year at Potlatch, Idaho. She married Eric Larson, a rancher, and they reside on their ranch near Weippe, Idaho. Herbert Benjamin Peirce is a graduate of the law Department of Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Richmond, Indiana. Doctor Peirce married the second time, in October, 1922, Miss Mildred Williams, who was born in Wayne County, Indiana, daughter of Daniel Williams. Doctor Peirce is a member of the Methodist Church. He served two terms of two years each as county coroner and is a Republican in politics. He belongs to the Wayne and Union Counties, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, and during the World war, in August, 1918, although past military age, he volunteered for service in the Army Medical Corps, was commissioned captain and was on duty at Camp Upton, Long Island, until honorably discharged October 19, 1919. Robert Peirce, a cousin of Doctor Peirce’s father, was one of Indiana’s eminent financiers and attorneys. He was born in Indiana in 1843 and married in 1866 Hattie Blair. He was graduated from Wabash College in September, 1860, then read law at Shelbyville, became city attorney and in 1866 moved to Crawfordsville, where he practiced from 1868 to 1870. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the Eighth Judicial District in 1872, and was chosen a member of Congress in 1880. After 1887 he practiced law at Indianapolis, and built up a large connection as a railway attorney. He died about 1899.