Western Reserve University named its original men’s residence Pierce Hall to honor Pierce’s service as President of Western Reserve College, 1934.
Western Reserve University named one of the men’s north side residences Pierce House for his “self-sacrifice and devotion, his unyielding honesty, fidelity and untiring perseverance for the College," 1964.
Career
Principal, an academy in Fairfield, Connecticut , 1816-1818
Daguerre invented the first successful photographic process.
1842
The Cleveland Plain Dealer was first published.
The Medical Department of Western Reserve College was established.
1843
1847
Cleveland’s first telegraph line (to Pittsburgh) was completed.
1848
The Communist Manifesto was published.
Gold was discovered in California.
The Theological Department was suspended, never to resume.
1854
Regional Population
1830
1850
Portage County
16,963
Summit County
27,485
Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.
