Arthur Joseph Pierpont (1876 - 1912)

Born 3 Dec 1876 in Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Beatrice (Garrigus) Pierpont — married 31 Dec 1900 in Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Died 20 Sep 1912 at age 35 in Connecticut, United States

Biography

Descendant of John Strong (1605-1699)..

Descendant of Thomas Ford (1590-1676)..

He made valuable contributions to the agricultural development of the state, particularly in connection with the dairy industry. As proprietor of the Maple Hill Farm in New Haven county he owned and conducted one of the best dairies in the Naugatuck valley. He attended Storrs Agricultural College, and then completed a course in the agriculture department of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. On returning to Connecticut he took up dairy farming, which he devoted his remaining days. He settled on the old homestead, the Maple Hill Farm, situated in the East Farms district. He became extensively engaged in dairying and ranked in time as the leading milk producer of the Naugatuck valley, keeping one of the finest herds of Holstein cattle in the state, numbering more than one hundred head. For many years he was a leading member of the Waterbury Milk Producer's Association. He was one of the trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural College and was manager of the state farm at Georgetown. He was also a director of the State Dairymen's Association and was vice president of the Connecticut Holstein Breeder's Association. He held membership in the Mad River Grange, of which he was past master and past lecturer. He was a member of the Cheshire lodge of Masons and of Nosahogan Lodge, I.O.O.F., of Waterbury. He also held membership in the Trinity Episcopal church of Waterbury and was superintendent of the Mill Plain Sunday school. He took especially deep interest in the cause of education, serving as a trustee of the schools for a number of years.

His untimely death was caused by the bursting of a steam pipe on his farm, whereby he was severely burned. He was buried in Mill Plain cemetery.

Name

Arthur Joseph Pierpont

Birth

03 Dec 1876

Burial

Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut

Sources

• Pape, William Jamieson. History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut (S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Naugatuck River Valley, Connecticut, 1918) Vol. 3, Page 234
• Work Record Pocket Diaries of Charles Somers Miller: 09\20\1912 (Friday)

Arthur J. Pierpont died this morning

at 2.30 o.clock from the effects

of burns that he received last

Monday while tightening up

the flews{flues?} of his farm engine

boiler, the threads of one of the

flews gave away and the fl__{flew!}

blew out scalding him terribly{terribley!},

but we thought that he would

recover, and was surprised to learn

this morning of his death{.? -?} he was

aged 35 years.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #139266635
• Connecticut Vital Records — Index of Marriages, 1897-1969

Arthur Pierpont

Bessie Unknown

1900-12-31 Wolcott

• The Upson Family in America (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Connecticut, 1940) Page 316.