Harriet Hamilton Pier

Harriet Hamilton Pier Simonds (April 26, 1872 – April 12, 1943) was a lawyer in Wisconsin. Her mother and two sisters were also lawyers, at a time when there were only eight female lawyers in Wisconsin.

Biography Harriet Hamilton Pier was born on April 26, 1872, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She was the third daughter of Kate Pier and Colwert Kendall Pier.

She was educated in the public schools of Fond du Lac, Madison and Milwaukee, and graduated from the Milwaukee High School in 1889.

Pier entered the law department of the Wisconsin University, and, at the end of two years, she took her degree of LL.B.

Pier studied the Polish language, all sisters having practical knowledge of the German. Harriet Hamilton Pier specialized in real estate law. She had much experience in and about the pine forests of northern Wisconsin and had actual personal charge and management of large tracts of timber land. The couple moved to Rhinelander, Wisconsin and had two children, Kate Simonds and Hamilton Simonds. She was treasurer of the Milwaukee chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and joined the Portia Club, the National Association of Women Lawyers, and the Rhinelander Women's Club.

She died in Rhinelander on April 12, 1943.