Arthur Joseph Pierpont was born 3 December 1876. He was a 1895 graduate of Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut . Following graduation Mr. Pierpont studied business in Hartford, Connecticut, before taking advanced agricultural sciences course at Cornell University . Upon his return to Connecticut, Pierpont took over the family homestead in Waterbury, Connecticut . At Maple Hill Farm, Pierpont established one of the first Holstein herds in the state and became a leading milk producer in the Naugatuck Valley. A noted authority on agricultural matters, Mr. Pierpont was a member of the Waterbury Milk Producers Association, Trustee of his alma mater ( Connecticut Agricultural College as of 1899) and manager of the College's Gilbert Farm, a working farm in Georgetown, Connecticut bequeathed to the College in 1906.
Mr. Pierpont married Beatrice Garrigus in 1900. The Pierponts had three daughters, the eldest of whom graduated from Connecticut Agricultural College in 1924.
Mr. Pierpont died 20 September 1912.
From the guide to the Arthur J. Pierpont Papers., undated, 1902-1931., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research enter.)
