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I. D. Pierce, an old established dentist of Kirksville, Mo., was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1838. He was reared in that county, and lived there until 1860, when he moved to Chillicothe, Mo., and from there to Macon the following year, remaining in that place until 1866. He spent one year in studying medicine, and then studied his profession at Dayton during this time. At the last mentioned date he located at Kirksville, as the first permanent dentist in the place, and has enjoyed an extensive and lucrative practice ever since. He has had partners of various kinds, and students have learned the profession under him, but, during all this time he has held the leading place. He has had a family of four children born to his wife, Mary Wingate, a native of Delaware, who died in 1871. Dr. Pierce is a member of the F. & A. M. fraternity. His parents, Jacob and Nancy (Dussman) Pierce, were natives of Ohio, the former being born in 1813. But two of their children survived infancy, William and our subject; the former was in the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died from exposure soon after the battle of Charleston.