Louisa was one of the earliest students of the Fredonia Academy, attending for eleven terms from 1836-1841.
from Fredonia Academy Research:
Source: Dilley, Butler F., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, NY. Philadelphia: Gresham, 1891. [WNY F 127 C7 D7], pp. 182-185.
Daughter of Daniel Pier and Candace Gaylord (whose original family farms later became the village of Dunkirk, when their original $70 land was sold for $2400), Louisa was teaching in the city of New York at the time of her January 2, 1855 marriage to Isaac A. Saxton, who made his fortune in the gold fields of California (after first losing his business in New Orleans to fire). He returned to Fredonia and read medicine for a short while, but gave that up to study law. He invested early in Chicago real estate, and later made wise purchases of land in various western states, among other successful investments. He was very good at predicting the future when it came to investments other businessmen hesitated to involve themselves in. The Saxtons had four children, but only Isaac Henry is named.
Mrs. Saxton's sisters, Amelia S. Pier and Mrs. Aveline H. Morey‚ also attended the Academy and are referred to as the other two surviving siblings of seven children [students Almira and Franklin were probably two more of them?].
Source: Fredonia Censor, July 22, 1903, [p.5?]
Mrs. I. A. Saxton has gone to live with her son Henry at Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago. She will remain there the remainder of the summer, then go to spend the following winter with her daughter Eva in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Saxton has been living on Central Avenue for some years past, on the lot where
she was born in her father's home when there was dense forest all the way to Dunkirk. Her father was Daniel Pier, one of the pioneers. She was Preceptress in Fredonia Academy [1853] before she married Mr. Saxton. She will visit her old home here occasionally, but leaves Fredonia as abiding place after living here 78 years.
from Fredonia Academy Research:
Source: Dilley, Butler F., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, NY. Philadelphia: Gresham, 1891. [WNY F 127 C7 D7], pp. 182-185.
Daughter of Daniel Pier and Candace Gaylord (whose original family farms later became the village of Dunkirk, when their original $70 land was sold for $2400), Louisa was teaching in the city of New York at the time of her January 2, 1855 marriage to Isaac A. Saxton, who made his fortune in the gold fields of California (after first losing his business in New Orleans to fire). He returned to Fredonia and read medicine for a short while, but gave that up to study law. He invested early in Chicago real estate, and later made wise purchases of land in various western states, among other successful investments. He was very good at predicting the future when it came to investments other businessmen hesitated to involve themselves in. The Saxtons had four children, but only Isaac Henry is named.
Mrs. Saxton's sisters, Amelia S. Pier and Mrs. Aveline H. Morey‚ also attended the Academy and are referred to as the other two surviving siblings of seven children [students Almira and Franklin were probably two more of them?].
Source: Fredonia Censor, July 22, 1903, [p.5?]
Mrs. I. A. Saxton has gone to live with her son Henry at Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago. She will remain there the remainder of the summer, then go to spend the following winter with her daughter Eva in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Saxton has been living on Central Avenue for some years past, on the lot where
she was born in her father's home when there was dense forest all the way to Dunkirk. Her father was Daniel Pier, one of the pioneers. She was Preceptress in Fredonia Academy [1853] before she married Mr. Saxton. She will visit her old home here occasionally, but leaves Fredonia as abiding place after living here 78 years.
Louisa was one of the earliest students of the Fredonia Academy, attending for eleven terms from 1836-1841.
from Fredonia Academy Research:
Source: Dilley, Butler F., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, NY. Philadelphia: Gresham, 1891. [WNY F 127 C7 D7], pp. 182-185.
Daughter of Daniel Pier and Candace Gaylord (whose original family farms later became the village of Dunkirk, when their original $70 land was sold for $2400), Louisa was teaching in the city of New York at the time of her January 2, 1855 marriage to Isaac A. Saxton, who made his fortune in the gold fields of California (after first losing his business in New Orleans to fire). He returned to Fredonia and read medicine for a short while, but gave that up to study law. He invested early in Chicago real estate, and later made wise purchases of land in various western states, among other successful investments. He was very good at predicting the future when it came to investments other businessmen hesitated to involve themselves in. The Saxtons had four children, but only Isaac Henry is named.
Mrs. Saxton's sisters, Amelia S. Pier and Mrs. Aveline H. Morey‚ also attended the Academy and are referred to as the other two surviving siblings of seven children [students Almira and Franklin were probably two more of them?].
Source: Fredonia Censor, July 22, 1903, [p.5?]
Mrs. I. A. Saxton has gone to live with her son Henry at Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago. She will remain there the remainder of the summer, then go to spend the following winter with her daughter Eva in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Saxton has been living on Central Avenue for some years past, on the lot where
she was born in her father's home when there was dense forest all the way to Dunkirk. Her father was Daniel Pier, one of the pioneers. She was Preceptress in Fredonia Academy [1853] before she married Mr. Saxton. She will visit her old home here occasionally, but leaves Fredonia as abiding place after living here 78 years.
from Fredonia Academy Research:
Source: Dilley, Butler F., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, NY. Philadelphia: Gresham, 1891. [WNY F 127 C7 D7], pp. 182-185.
Daughter of Daniel Pier and Candace Gaylord (whose original family farms later became the village of Dunkirk, when their original $70 land was sold for $2400), Louisa was teaching in the city of New York at the time of her January 2, 1855 marriage to Isaac A. Saxton, who made his fortune in the gold fields of California (after first losing his business in New Orleans to fire). He returned to Fredonia and read medicine for a short while, but gave that up to study law. He invested early in Chicago real estate, and later made wise purchases of land in various western states, among other successful investments. He was very good at predicting the future when it came to investments other businessmen hesitated to involve themselves in. The Saxtons had four children, but only Isaac Henry is named.
Mrs. Saxton's sisters, Amelia S. Pier and Mrs. Aveline H. Morey‚ also attended the Academy and are referred to as the other two surviving siblings of seven children [students Almira and Franklin were probably two more of them?].
Source: Fredonia Censor, July 22, 1903, [p.5?]
Mrs. I. A. Saxton has gone to live with her son Henry at Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago. She will remain there the remainder of the summer, then go to spend the following winter with her daughter Eva in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Saxton has been living on Central Avenue for some years past, on the lot where
she was born in her father's home when there was dense forest all the way to Dunkirk. Her father was Daniel Pier, one of the pioneers. She was Preceptress in Fredonia Academy [1853] before she married Mr. Saxton. She will visit her old home here occasionally, but leaves Fredonia as abiding place after living here 78 years.
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