Edward Allen Pierce (August 31, 1874 – December 16, 1974) was an American businessman and stock broker.

Pierce was born in 1874 in Orrington, Maine, and attended Bowdoin College before dropping out.

The college conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Pierce in 1956.

[1] Pierce, who had worked as the manager of a lumber business in his twenties, gave up a comfortable $100 a week salary to become a clerk at A.A. Housman & Company in 1901.

According to his obituary, at the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Luella Van Hoosear, age 102.