Marriages, Family, and Estates
Pierrepont was a young man when he married Eunice Munson, the daughter of John Munson. Eunice died shortly after their marriage.
On May 27, 1846 Pierrepont married Margaretta Willoughby, from Brooklyn, the daughter of Samuel Willoughby. Their marriage produced two children, one son, Edwin, and one daughter, Margaretta. Edwin had died in Rome in 1885 while serving as Chargé d'Affaires, having replaced Mr. William Astor, the U.S. Envoy, who had retired. Pierrepont's daughter married Leanord F. Beckwith who lived at 48 West Seventy-second Street in New York.
In 1852, Pierrepont had completed the construction of his estate house on 103 Fifth Avenue in New York. This would be his permanent residence for the next forty years. In 1867, Pierrepont built a country estate house in Garrison. His estate at Garrison, New York was designed by noted architect Alexander Jackson Davis; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as the Hurst-Pierrepont Estate.
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