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 John Pierson
September 15, 2001
John H.G. Pierson, 95, of Kimball Farms died Saturday evening at home.
Born in New York City on March 28, 1906, son of Charles Wheeler and Elizabeth Groesbeck Pierson, he was a 1927 graduate of Yale, where he received his bachelor of arts degree and was valedictorian of his class. He later received his doctorate in economics from Yale. He moved to Lenox in 1993.
Mr. Pierson was an economist for the United States government, where he helped write the Employment Act of 1946. He later worked for the United Nations in New York City and in Asia, and became special advisor to the undersecretary for economics and social affairs.
He wrote many books and articles on the subject of full employment. In the 1960s, he planted the first of 18,000 trees on the barren island of Syros, which he described in his book titled "Island in Greece." In his later years, he studied and wrote on modern forms of mysticism, particularly Japanese Zen and Indian Vedanta as they influenced Europe and America. As a young man, he published a volume of poems and wrote children's stories.
He was predeceased by his first two wives, the former Gertrude Trumbull Robinson and the former Sherleigh Elizabeth Glad.
He leaves his wife, the former Harriet-Anne Duell, whom he married in 1992; a daughter, Elizabeth Pierson Friend of Villanova, Pa.; a son, John T.R. Pierson of Cambridge; a stepson, Robert W. Wood of Escondido, Calif.; six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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