When Ranghield Hildegard Pierson was born on 23 November 1891, in Wessington, Beadle, South Dakota, United States, his father, Nels Persson, was 29 and his mother, Johanna Bourdette, was 24. He lived in Harmony Township, Jerauld, South Dakota, United States in 1910. He died on 22 November 1911, in Jerauld, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Hope Cemetery, Wessington Springs, Jerauld, South Dakota, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: 1894
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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