When Charles A. Pierce was born on 10 November 1863, in Concord Township, Dodge, Minnesota, United States, his father, Alfred Pierce, was 22 and his mother, Mary Etta Sackett, was 22. He married Anna Eleanor Bromley on 19 May 1885, in Mecosta, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Presque Isle, Vilas, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Township of Nottawa, Isabella, Michigan, United States in 1930. He died on 10 May 1941, in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Lakeview, Cato Township, Montcalm, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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