Brief Life History of Edward M
When Edward M Peirce was born on 15 April 1863, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Pierce, was 41 and his mother, Ann Bashford Vincer, was 37. He married Katie E Cook on 4 December 1884, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died in 1929, in Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Edward M Pierce in household of William Pierce, "United States Census, 1880"
- Edward M. Pierce, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Edward W. P..., "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
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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