Harriet Fowler Louise Pierpont

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-2713.35pie?view...

After her first husband Dr George Fowler died in Indiana in 1838, Louise returned to Pawling, NY with her infant son Archie and lived with her sister until Archie graduated from Union College and enrolled at Harvard Medical School, when she moved to West Medford, Mass to keep house for him.

There, she met (or got re-acquainted, as she likely knew him when they were growing up in towns not far apart) well-known abolitionist and Unitarian minister John Pierpont, and they were married in 1857. John's son James (by his first wife Mary Sheldon Lord) wrote "Jingle Bells" and one of his grandsons was the famous financier J Pierpont Morgan.

After John Pierpont died in 1866, Louise sold their house at 87 Mystic St, West Medford to her neighbor James Hatch (her son's father-in-law) and returned to Pawling once again, boarding with her niece Elizabeth Vanderburgh Merwin's brother-in-law, Frederick Merwin, a Pawling hardware merchant. She died during surgery at St Lukes Hospital in New York City in 1870, and was buried at Pawling Cemetery in the Merwin family plot.

Louise' daughter and granddaughter lived at 87 Mystic St until 1950 when it was razed to make room for six smaller houses. A 1930 model of the home survives.