of Dedham, Massachusetts. Activism Pierpont may be called "the poet of the abolition movement". His poem "The Tocsin", written just after the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia), was published in The Liberator, the country's leading anti-slavery paper. Pierpont was also involved in women's rights issues and spoke about women's suffrage. Personal life In 1810, Pierpont was married to Mary Sheldon Lord (1787–1855), a daughter of Mary ( Lyman) Lord and Lynde Lord. Together, they had six children, including: William Alston Pierpont (1811–1860), who married Mary Cecelia Ridgeway and Sara Turelle. Mary Elizabeth Pierpont (1812–1857), who died unmarried. Juliet Pierpont (1816–1884), who married Junius Spencer Morgan, and was the mother of financier John Pierpont Morgan. John Pierpont Jr. (1820–1879), who married Joanna LeBaron Sibley (1820–1852), a daughter of Jonas Leonard Sibley, in 1844. James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893), a songwriter who married Millicent Cowee in 1846. After her death, he married Eliza Jane Purse in 1857. Caroline Augusta Pierpont (1823–1881), who married merchant Joseph Moody Boardman. After the death of his first wife in 1855, he remarried in 1857 to Harriet Louise ( Campbell) Fowler, the widow of George Warren Fowler and a daughter of Archibald Campbell. He died at Medford, Massachusetts in 1866. Pierpont's sixteen-page obituary on the front page of the Atlantic Monthly was written by John Neal, his ex-business partner of fifty years earlier who later became an influential critic, writer, and lecturer, and who had named his second-oldest son (John Pierpont Neal) after Pierpont in 1847. References External links The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project The Tocsin, a broadsheet poem by John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project The Anti-slavery poems of John Pierpont By John Pierpont. Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection. {Reprinted by}Cornell University Library Digital Collections John Pierpont works Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection Yale Obituary Record 19th-century American poets American male poets 1785 births 1860 deaths Harvard University alumni Writers from Boston 19th century in Boston Massachusetts Libertyites Massachusetts Free Soilers People from Litchfield, Connecticut Lawyers from Boston Yale College alumni 19th-century American male writers American abolitionists American temperance activists 19th-century American lawyers Litchfield Law School alumni American suffragists