The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
KATE H. PIER.
KATE PIER.
CAROLINE H. PIER.
HARRIET H. PIER.
Lawyers.
1o2 Wisconsin Street.
Milwaukee. Wis.

BY itself also again appears the name
Of the mother with the title Court Com
missioner for Mrs Pier holds that Of
ice, and was the first woman in the
country to have 1t.
Mrs. Pier cid not take up the study of
law until 1894, after the death of her
husband, Col. c. K Pier, who was a
practicing lawyer in Fond du Lac, where
the family still have a home. Mrs.
Piers eldest daughter, whose name is
also kate, was then graduating from the
high school OF the town
Miss Pier evidently had a legal mind,
for during her last school year she he
gan reading law, AMI became absorbed
by it. Mrs. Pier had never given the
profession any thought, but on the death.
Of her husband the management of the
estate devolved upon her, and Immediately
she realized what help knowledge OF
law would be. Inspired by the example
OF her eldest daughter, who was then
reading III earnest, Mrs. Pier determined
to take the course, and began immedi-
ately. Being in deep mourning she was
entirely removed from the social diver
sions which had previously occupied her,
and she applied herself to law with such
purpose that She graduated with Miss
Kate from the law school OF the univer-
sity of Wisconsin at Madison
The next Year, in 1895, the family re-
moved to Milwaukee, where the two
graduates opened an Office Mrs. Pier de-
voting herself to Office work, while Miss
Kate went into general practice
There were two daughters several years
younger than Miss Kate, and in the
meantime there was the home to be kept
running, not an easy task with the out
side work that the two older members
of the family were doing. Money fortu-
nately was not lacking, but time was
hard to find. Nevertheless, Mrs Pier
managed her household herself and did
not leave the care of the younger girls
to servants
No sooner had Miss Pier begun to ur-
derstand the practice of law than she set
about to make more possibilities in it for
women, and 1t was largely through her
efforts that the Wisconsin legislature
passed a bill making women eligible to
the Office OF court commissioner Then
Miss Pier had the great pleasure of seeing
her mother receive the first appointment.
which she has held ever since.
The two younger girls We're growing
up in such an atmosphere of law that
when they left school they Immediately
began to read for that profession. Only
two years apart they went to the TJniver
sity law school in Madison, graduated.
and We're taken into the office in Milwau
kee as members of the firm
- AOe'l elO e1dutlllSu " pTdSUc9 IN the
supreme court Miss Kate being fine first
to have that homer. Senator Villas placed
her name on the list in 1854. and she was
the twelfth woman to be so recognized
In 1897 Miss Caroline was admitted on
the motion of her sister, and this wear
Mrs. Pier and Miss Harriet have also
been admitted.
Miss Kate is an expert in the tnedico-
legal branch Of her profession Mrs. Pier
is devoted to court commission business,
guardianship and trusteeships. and Miss
Caroline looks after the family estate.
Miss Harriet attends to the general civil
practice which comes to the firm.
Neither Mrs Pier nor her daughters
devote themselves to their profession to
the exclusion of society. They have a
charming winter home in Milwaukee and
have gathered about them a delightful
set of people
In the summer the family spend as
much time as they can in Fond du Lac
where they have kept up their old asso-
ciauons and are eagerly welcomed by
old friends who are immensely proud Of
them y