When Autis Ethridge Pierson was born on 18 May 1898, in Franklin, Izard, Arkansas, United States, his father, Arthur Clarence Pierson, was 21 and his mother, Martha Lee Jones, was 17. He married Lue Anna Herron on 25 December 1922, in Izard, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Violet Hill, Izard, Arkansas, United States for about 5 years and Franklin Township, Izard, Arkansas, United States in 1950. He died on 2 October 1964, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Violet Hill Cemetery, Violet Hill, Izard, Arkansas, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English: variant of Pearson .
North German: patronymic from the personal name Pier, a variant of Peer, vernacular shortened form of Peter . Compare Peerson .
History: Born in Yorkshire, England, Abraham Pierson (1609–78) was the first pastor of the settlements at Southampton, Long Island, NY; Branford, CT, and Newark, NJ. He left his library of more than 400 books, one of the most extensive in the colonies, to his son Abraham, who was one of the first trustees of Yale College.
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