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[[File:George Wilson Pierson Yale.jpg|thumb|right|George Pierson. April 1988.]] 
'''George Wilson Pierson''' (October 22, 1904 – October 12, 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at [[Yale University]].  He was the first official historian of the university.<ref name="nyt1993">Kennedy, Randy. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/15/obituaries/george-pierson-88-a-professor-at-yale-and-its-historian.html  "George Pierson, 88, A Professor at Yale And Its Historian,"] ''New York Times.'' October 15, 1993.</ref>

==Family life==
Pierson was a descendant of Yale's first rector, [[Abraham Pierson]], and he was related to the college's first student.<ref name="arana">Arana, Marie. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100901718.html  "Last Stop on The Main Line,"] ''Washington Post.'' October 11, 2009.</ref>  He was the son of Charles Wheeler Pierson, a New York lawyer who had been [[valedictorian]] of the Class of 1886.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/05/archives/o-w-pierson-dies-a-noted-lawyer-authority-on-constitutional-law-had.html?sq=george%2520wilson%2520pierson&scp=18&st=cse  "C. W. Pierson Dies"] ''New York Times.'' May 5, 1934.</ref>  Like his father, Pierson was at the top of his undergraduate class in 1926.<ref name="nyt1926">[https://www.nytimes.com/1926/06/23/archives/614-seniors-at-yale-receive-diplomas-degrees-given-graduates-of-the.html  "614 Seniors at Yale Receive Diplomas,"] 'New York Times.'' June 23, 1926.</ref>

In 1936, he brought a new bride to New Haven.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1936/09/01/archives/mary-l-verdery-plans-her-bridal-her-marriage-to-george-wilson.html?sq=george%2520wilson%2520pierson&scp=6&st=cse  "Mary L. Verdery Plans her Bridal; Her Marriage to George Wilson Pierson Will Take Place in Church of Ascension,"] ''New York Times.'' September 2, 1936; [https://www.nytimes.com/1936/09/11/archives/mary-l-verdery-in-ghurgh-bridal-she-wears-her-grandmothers-gown-at.html?sq=george%2520wilson%2520pierson&scp=26&st=cse  Mary L. Verdery in Church Bridal; She Wears Her Grandmother's Gown at Marriage to George W. Pierson,"] ''New York Times.'' September 11, 1936.</ref> In the early 1960s, he and his wife celebrated the marriage of two daughters, Laetitia<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB071EF63559107B93C6A91788D85F468685F9&scp=10&sq=george%20wilson%20pierson&st=cse  "Miss Laetitia Pierson To Be Bride of Student,"] ''New York Times.'' March 4, 1962.</ref> and Nora.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/11/25/archives/miss-norah-pierson-is-prospective-bride.html?sq=george%2520wilson%2520pierson&scp=12&st=cse  "Miss Norah Pierson Is Prospective Bride,"] ''New York Times.'' November 25, 1962.</ref> According to a granddaughter, he was a man "with glittering eyes and a sly sense of humor."<ref name="arana"/>

==Education==
Pierson attained his B.A. from Yale in 1926 and was awarded the Warren Memorial High Scholarship prize for the "highest standing in scholarship."<ref name="nyt1926" />  He earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1933.<ref name="aya1973">Yale Alumni Association, [http://www.aya.yale.edu/content/medalists-department  Medalists by Year, 1973]</ref>  His dissertation was "Two Frenchmen in America, 1831–1832,"<ref>Yale History Department, [http://www.yale.edu/history/gradstudents/dissertations/1930-1939.html  Dissertations 1930-1939] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918202649/http://www.yale.edu/history/gradstudents/dissertations/1930-1939.html |date=September 18, 2010 ))</ref> a study of the experiences of [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] and [[Gustave de Beaumont]] in the United States.  It won the distinguished [[John Addison Porter]] Prize from the university for best work of scholarship that year.

==Career==
Pierson's entire academic career unfolded at Yale, beginning in 1926.<ref name="nyt1993"/>

As an assistant professor in the Department of History in 1938,<ref name="thompson">Thompson, Ralph. [https://www.nytimes.com/1938/07/14/archives/books-of-the-times-the-aristocrats-the-excuse.html?sq=george%2520wilson%2520pierson&scp=20&st=cse "The Aristocrats The Excuse,"]  ''New York Times.'' July 14, 1938.</ref> Pierson translated and quoted from several of the letters in a book he wrote about Tocqueville in America; but he viewed them as primary source documents rather than as an epistolary accomplishment.<ref>McGrath, Charles. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/books/04alexis.html  "Postcards From the Edge: Tocqueville’s Letters Home,"] ''New York Times.'' November 3, 2009.</ref>  The value of this early scholarship assumed greater importance as general public interest in Tocqueville's writing has evolved.<ref name="thompson"/>

Pierson was named to an endowed professorship in 1946.  He remained active in teaching and as an administrator until his retirement in 1973.<ref name="nyt1993"/>

Pierson had climbed the academic ladder to become the chairman of the History Department in the late-1950s and early-1960s.<ref>Lemisch, Jesse. [http://hnn.us/articles/33300.html  "History at Yale In the Dark Ages, 1953-76,"] ''History News Network.'' January 6, 2007.</ref>  
Among his achievements was recruiting noted historians [[Arthur F. Wright]] and [[Mary C. Wright]] to teach Chinese history and [[John Whitney Hall]] to teach Japanese history.<ref name="nyt1993"/>

Pierson was a strong opponent to Yale's initial attempt at some form of coordinate or co-education with Vassar College. In a statement made to the "Vassar Miscellany News", Pierson said women "have never been celebrated in any work I know for their originality, their Imagination, their
rebelliousness or constructiveness of thought."<ref name="Yale Professors Laud Coeducation:
'All-Male System Archaic and Absurd'">"Yale Professors Laud Coeducation:
'All-Male System Archaic and Absurd'" URL= http://newspaperarchive.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=miscellany19670414-01.2.32&srpos=2&e=01-01-1960-02-02-1969-196-en-20-miscellany-1-byDA-txt-txIN-George+W.+Pierson-%2cARTICLE-----</ref>

In the foreword to ''Yale: A Short History'', Pierson described Yale as "at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends."<ref name="Only at Yale">((cite web|title=Only at Yale |url=http://admissions.yale.edu/only-at-yale |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=April 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408233859/http://admissions.yale.edu/only-at-yale |archivedate=April 8, 2014 ))</ref>

==Selected works==
Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,892 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses.((citation needed|date=June 2019))
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* ''Tocqueville and Beaumont in America'' (1938)
* ''The Frontier and Frontiersmen of Turner's Essays: a Scrutiny of the Foundations of the Middle Western Tradition'' (1940) 
* ''American Historians and the Frontier Hypothesis in 1941'' (1942) 
* ''Yale: College and University : 1871–1937.'' (1952)
* ''The M-factor in American History'' (1962)
* ''Tocqueville in America'' (1969)
* '' The Education of American Leaders; Comparative Contributions of U.S. Colleges and Universities'' (1969)
* ''The moving American'' (1973)
* ''Lettres d'Amérique'' by Gustave de Beaumont, edited by George Pierson. (1973)
* ''Yale: a Short History'' (1976)
* ''Tocqueville's Visions of Democracy'' (1976) 
* ''Yale Book of Numbers: Historical Statistics of the College, 1701–1976'' (1983)
* ''The Founding of Yale : the Legend of the Forty Folios'' (1988)
* ''The History of the Georgica Association 1880–1948'' (1992)
* ''The Bringing of the Mill (1942–1943)'' (1962)
* ''A Poose and its Neighbors, Episodes from the history of Georgica Pond and its bar'' (1992)

==Honors==
* 1973 &mdash; [[Wilbur Cross medal]].<ref name="aya1973"/>
* 1974 &mdash; William Clyde DeVane medal.<ref>Yale Phi Beta Kappa, [http://www.yale.edu/pbk/devane.html DeVane Medalists, 1966-Present]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* Kennedy, Randy. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/15/obituaries/george-pierson-88-a-professor-at-yale-and-its-historian.html  "George Pierson, 88, A Professor at Yale And Its Historian,"] ''New York Times.'' October 15, 1993.

==Further reading==
* Friend, Tad. (2009). ''Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, And the Last Days of Wasp Splendor.'' New York: Little, Brown and Co. ((ISBN|9780316003179)); ((OCLC|310097122))

== External links ==

* George Wilson Pierson papers (MS 401). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0401]
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