Background
Marvin Pierce was born in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, to Scott Pierce (born 1866) an insurance salesman in Dayton, Ohio, and Mabel Marvin (born 1869).
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Marvin Pierce
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Miami University.
Career
His ancestor Thomas Pierce (1618-1683), an early New England colonist, was also an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. He was inducted into Miami"s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1972. He also received graduate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in civil engineering and from Harvard in architectural engineering.
They had four children together:
Martha Pierce Rafferty (1920-1999)
James Pierce (1921-1993)
Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1925), First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993
West magazine once described Pauline Robinson as "beautiful, fabulous, critical, and meddling" and "a former beauty from Ohio with extravagant tastes".
The car crashed into a tree on Purchase Street, killing Pauline instantly at 8:12 a.m. She was 53 years old.
Their third child, Barbara Pierce, later became the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George Heriot-Watt University Bush, mother of the 43rd President of the United States, George West. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush. Pierce"s second marriage (June 1952) was to Willa Gray Martin (1911-2006), an artist and Associated Press reporter.
Marvin Pierce died on 17 July 1969 at Rye, New York (aged 76) and was interred at Greenwood Union Cemetery (Rye, New York).
Marvin Pierce Bush, one of Barbara"s sons, is named after him.
Membership
Marvin was a 1916 graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, he was nicknamed "Monk" and was a stand-out athlete in football, basketball, baseball and tennis.
