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President Franklin Pierce Family Tree & History, Ancestry & Genealogy

Full name

President Franklin Pierce

Also known as

Young Hickory of the Granite Hills

Gender

Male

Age

64

Date of birth

Friday 23 Nov 1804

Birth place

Hillsboro, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA

Date of death:

8 Oct 1869

Place of death

Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

Family Tragedy

The first son of the Pierces passed away after only six days, and their second son died of typhus at the age of 4. Two months before Franklin's inauguration, the family were travelling by train when their carriage derailed in a freak accident. Although both parents came away with only minor injuries, they both witnessed the death of their only remaining son, who was killed in the accident at the age of thirteen. His mother never really recovered from her loss.

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