When Jacob Marion Pierce was born on 16 December 1878, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, his father, Jacob Ahart Pierce, was 36 and his mother, Elvira Oliver, was 32. He married Sallie B Summers on 25 February 1903, in McCracken, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Magisterial District 3 Salem, Livingston, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Salem, Livingston, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 May 1968, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Pinckneyville, Livingston, Kentucky, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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