Brief Life History of Leroy Caton
When Leroy Caton Pierce was born on 30 January 1944, in San Mateo, San Mateo, California, United States, his father, Ferrall Melvin Pierce, was 27 and his mother, Esther Eleonora Quaschnick, was 26. He married Cheryl Marie Stott on 8 September 1967. He lived in United States in 1949. He died on 17 February 2020, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Utah State Veterans Memorial Park, Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Leroy C Pierce, "United States 1950 Census"
- Leroy Caton Pierce, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Leroy C Pierce, "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985"
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1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
1952 · Uranium in Moab
Uranium mining in Utah has a history going back more than 100 years but, it started as a byproduct of vanadium mining. With the development of Nuclear Weapons, Utah saw a uranium boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but uranium mining declined near the end of the Cold War. Currently Uranium is still being mined but just a small amount for power plants and for research.
1964 · The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both all the states and Congress from swaying the right to vote in elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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