Forrer family

The Forrer-Peirce-Wood Collection includes the papers of at least six generations of Dayton families, primarily the Samuel Forrer family and the Jeremiah H. Peirce family, and their ancestors and descendants.

The following brief biographical sketch describes the members of immediate families of Samuel Forrer and Jeremiah H. Peirce. More detailed biographical sketches of individual family members, as well as other related families, can be found at the beginning of each subseries.

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