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Nov 15, 2023 · December 07, 1838 (70) Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. Place of Burial: Hillsborough, NH, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of Benjamin Kendrick and Sarah Jean Kendrick. Wife of Gov. Benjamin Pierce and Gen Solomon McNeil. Mother of Col. Benjamin Kendrick Pierce; Nancy M. McNeil; John Sullivan Pierce; Harriet ...
Feb 16, 2019 · Pierce was the son of Benjamin Pierce, a public official, and Anna Kendrick. His mother was prone to depression. He had four brothers, two sisters, and one half-sister. On November 19, 1834, he married Jane Means Appleton. the daughter of a Congregationalist Minister. Together, they had three sons all of whom died by the age of twelve.
Benjamin, Pierce's third and only surviving child, died in a railroad accident two months before his father's inauguration. Because of religious considerations Pierce affirmed rather than swore the Presidential oath of office. Pierce gave his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes. Pierce was the only President to ...
May 7, 2024 · About Benjamin Pierce. Born the youngest child of Franklin Pierce and Jane Means Appleton on April 13,1841 in Concord NH. After the deaths of the two elder brothers Bennie, (as he was called) had, as a mother, a devoted parent who always did her best to discourage her husband's interest in politics, desiring a quiet family life.
Nov 2, 2014 · His father, Benjamin, was a revolutionary war veteran who served as governor of New Hampshire. Pierce first succeeded at law and then parlayed his charm, reputation and family connections into a political career. He married Jane Means Appleton, the daughter of the president of Bowdoin College, Pierce’s alma mater. Their courtship lasted eight ...
When President Franklin Pierce was born on 23 November 1804, in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Governor Benjamin Pierce II, was 46 and his mother, Anna Kendrick, was 36. He married Jane Means Appleton on 19 November 1834, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
Franklin Pierce was born in a log cabin in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, as the first President of the United States born in the 19th century. The site of his birth is now under Franklin Pierce Lake. Pierce's father was Benjamin Pierce, a frontier farmer who became a Revolutionary War soldier, a state militia general, and a two-time Democratic-Republican governor of New Hampshire. He was a ...
