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Harold Peirce

Insurance Agent, New York Life

Centurion, 1919–1932

Born 28 September 1856 in Bristol, Pennsylvania

Died 12 April 1932 in Haverford, Pennsylvania

Buried Saint James Episcopal Churchyard, Bristol, Pennsylvania

Proposed by William Pierson Merrill and Rowland G. Hazard

Elected 3 May 1919 at age sixty-two

Century Memorial

In the life insurance business, Harold Peirce of Philadelphia was acclaimed as having broken all known records in the placing of policies. He had served the New York Life in this capacity during 46 consecutive years, in 38 of which his company recorded that the total business brought in by him individually had exceeded $50,000,000. All of the honors that the insurance industry can confer on its men of achievement had been bestowed on him.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook