John Henry PEIRCE

Married Alice HOWARTH on 1 JUL 1893 at Franklin, Oneida, ID

Robert PEIRCE Hannah HARVEY John WALKER Lydia HOLMES William PEIRCE Mary Electa WALKER John Henry PEIRCE

m.Alice HOWARTH John Raymond PEIRCE Ruth Lodema PEIRCE Henry Milton PEIRCE Mary Ellen PEIRCE Alice Iona PEIRCE Bertha Rosetta PEIRCE Andrew Charles PEIRCE

Notes:
Comments from Earl Peirce - I see by my records that John Henry Peirce stopped at my parents place in Harper, Utah in 1939 while I was away to college. He was looking over the old family history sites. His mother lived in a rock house situated 4 miles nort of Brigham City. I knew the house though it has been torn down. His mother moved to Brigham City before the divorce with William Peirce. My record shows that he went to the Cardston Temple in 1938 and did temple ordinance work for himself and his deceased wife so it appears he had rejoined the LDS Church. Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol 1, Canada, The Church in The second LDS penetration into Canada came some fifty years later and 2,500 miles farther west, when Church President John Taylor, a British-born Canadian convert, sent Charles Ora Card to Canada to find a place of refuge for the Saints from the U.S. government's campaign against plural marriage, but most public opposition to the Church declined with the 1890 manifesto, which officially ended the practice. Taking full advantage of the Canadian government's "National Policy", which encouraged immigration, several thousand skilled and seasoned Latter-day saints moved north, and soon several other Mormon towns sprung up around Cardston: Raymond (1890), and Sterling and McGrath (1898). The Alberta Stake was organized on June 9, 1895, the first LDS stake outside the United States. Charles O. Card was its president. Skilled in farming, particularly sugar beets, and in irrigating large land acreages, LDS farmers soon earned the admiration of friend and foe. By 1914, more than 10,000 Latter-day Saints were settled in a score of communities in southern Alberta. In 1923 the Curch dedicated the Cardston Temple, the first temple outside the United States.