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 | | The family continued in their possessions, viz.: the castle of Pierrepont, in the south confines of Picardy, and were benefactors to the abbey of Thionville for lands in the territory of Sorincourt and Veel. |
 | | Pierrepont took an active part in organizing that service, and became vice-president of the Union Ferry Company and chairman of its executive committee, a position which he held for forty-seven years, and in 1886, upon the death of the then incumbent, he succeeded to the presidency. |
 | | Pierrepont was an earnest and sincere churchman throughout his life, and was active in the organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, known as Grace Church, on Brooklyn Heights, and for more than forty years was its senior warden. |
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