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H. E. Peirce, vice-president of the Standard Vehicle Company, of Pontiac, Michigan, and one of its incorporators, has charge of the manufacturing end of the business, with which he has been connected for the past 10 years. It is one of the great industrial plants of Pontiac and its goods are marketed all over the United States.

Mr. Peirce was born in 1876, at Detroit, Michigan, and there attended school and later graduated at the Pontiac High School, his father, C. J. Peirce having resided here for a time, now being the leading optician of Detroit. Our subject began to learn the vehicle business in the C. V. Taylor buggy plant where he worked four years, and followed this with four years with the Pontiac Buggy Company, coming then to his present position. Thus Mr. Peirce is a well qualified, practical mechanic and much of the success of this great industry is owing to his careful supervision, by which the high standard of the goods is maintained.

In 1901 Mr. Peirce was united in marriage to Grace Hatcher, a native of Columbus, Ohio. They reside in a very pleasant home on Park street, Pontiac. Politically Mr. Peirce is a Republican and has always taken a lively interest in public matters. Fraternally he belongs to Pontiac Lodge, No. 21, F. & A. M., and to the chapter and council, and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In his religious views he favors the Methodist Church.