When Mary Henrietta Peirce was born on 27 August 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Eli Harvey Peirce Jr, was 52 and her mother, Henrietta Madsen, was 40. She married Rulon Stanley Howells on 26 August 1931, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1949 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 20 March 2003, at the age of 98, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: variant of Pierce .
History: The name Peirce first appears in colonial American records in 1623with William Peirce, an English shipmaster who compiled the firstalmanac in English America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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