Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1901 — Death of Col. G. A. Pierce. [ARTICLE]

Death of Col. G. A. Pierce.

Col. Gilbert A. Pierce, formerly territorial governor of North Dakota and ex-senator from that state, died last Friday morning at 9 o’clock, of pneumonia. He at one time lived at Valparaiso, where he practiced law before the Civil war. He was second lieutenant in Company H, 9th Indiana Volunteers and rose to the ranks of colonel. For mauy years he was managing editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, He was buried in Chicago, and the body will be removed later to the Adams cemetery, in Porter county.