John Calvin Pierce, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

John Calvin Pierce, a prominent farmer of Calhoun County, Arkansas was born in La Fayette County, Mississippi, August 19, 1848, the first
child born to the union of C. J. and Lucretia Pierce, the former a native of Georgia, and the latter of Alabama, and both residents of Mississippi
for some time. The immediate subject of this short sketch was reared and schooled in Mississippi, receiving a limited education in the common
county schools of his native State. At the age of nineteen years he began doing for himself, choosing farming as his occupation, at which he
has been unusually successful, and now owns 240 acres of fine land, with about 100 acres under cultivation. He was married in 1870, to Miss
Eveline L. Orr, youngest child of William and Margaret Orr, old and respected settlers of Arkansas. To this union were born five children, viz:
Franklin H., Dora A., William R., Walter L. and Asbury J. All except Dora A., who died at the age of four years, are living at home. Mr. Pierce
enlisted in the late war, at the age of fifteen years, as private, under Capt. Fomby, in the Twenty -second Mississippi Regiment, and served
under different captains until the close of the war, participating in a great many skirmishes, but no important battles. He takes considerable
interest in politics, and votes with the Democratic party. He served as bailiff of Polk Township for four years, and served in the same capacity in
Huey Township two years. In 1886 he was appointed deputy sheriff. He is a member of the Laborer's Union, which he joined in 1885, and is a
liberal contributor to all worthy public enterprises.