Diana McNeil Pierson was an educator and missionary. Pierson was born in Pluka, Maryland on August 7, 1888, to a soldier, Mr. Fish and adopted by a missionary named Elizabeth McNeil. McNeil arrived in America at the age of three to be present at a general missionary conference. She first attended school in Lancaster, PA, the […]
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