Editing Pierson, Iowa (section)

==History==
Pierson was [[plat]]ted in 1883 and the original owners were the Railroad Land Co.<ref name="Sioux">{{cite news |date=March 14, 2004 |title=Pierson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85186914/sioux-city-journal/ |work=Sioux City Journal |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913230942/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85186914/sioux-city-journal/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The city might have been named for Moses Pearson a pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite book |author=The Pierson Quasquicentennial Book Committee |date=2008 |title=Pierson, Iowa 1883–2008 |page=3}}</ref> Pierson originally only had eight blocks of land and new additions began being added in July 1892. Railroads were important to the growth of northwest Iowa, which includes Pierson, due to it carrying lumber and other material for expansion. Lumberyards were a major business in the early days of Pierson with the earliest such company being founded in 1883 as the Joyce Lumber Company. The newspaper ''Pierson Press'' was published from 1882, a year before being platted, until 1957.<ref>{{cite book |author=The Pierson Quasquicentennial Book Committee |date=2008 |title=Pierson, Iowa 1883–2008 |pages=7–8}}</ref> John C. Pierson was the mayor from 1898 to 1905.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schrems |first=Suzanne H |date=2004 |title=Who's Rocking the Cradle?: Women Pioneers of Oklahoma Politics from Socialism to the KKK, 1900–1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxiPmk6scMAC&pg=PA150 |publisher=Horse Creek Publications |page=150 |isbn= 9780972221726|access-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913230942/https://books.google.com/books?id=IxiPmk6scMAC&pg=PA150&dq= |url-status=live }}</ref>

Henry Castle from [[Correctionville, Iowa]], founded a store in Pierson that sold groceries and hardware and acted as a post office. In 1885, the store was purchased by Mills and Robinson from Sioux City, Iowa, until 1890, when J. C. Mills purchased it, and he operated it until he died in 1903. The store went through multiple ownership changes until July 2016, when the final tenants left, leaving behind an empty building.<ref>{{cite book |author=The Pierson Quasquicentennial Book Committee |date=2008 |title=Pierson, Iowa 1883–2008 |pages=53–54}}</ref>

[[File:The Farmers' Elevator Co.png|thumb|The Farmer's Elevator Co. in 1939]]
The Farmers' Elevator Co. was founded in 1904 and it had grain from five counties within northwestern Iowa. The co-op elevator sold corn, oats, and barley with 3,500 bushes processed an hour by a lift.<ref name="Farmer">{{cite book |author=United States Farm Credit Administration |date=1939 |title=Farmer Co-ops |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsmHQWjd08AC&pg=RA9-PA3 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=4 |access-date=September 12, 2021|archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913230943/https://books.google.com/books?id=zsmHQWjd08AC&pg=RA9-PA3&dq= |url-status=live }}</ref> An addition was made to the company in 1915 and the facility was rebuilt in 1936.<ref>{{cite book |date=1915 |title=The Grain and Feed Review, Volume 4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPBKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90 |publisher=Manager Publishing Company |page=90 |access-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913230943/https://books.google.com/books?id=wPBKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Farmer"/> Herman and Henry Rock operated a franchise of [[John Deere]] from the late 1920s until the mid-1930s. The business was started again in 1936 as the Rock-Karsten Implement Company. After being in operation by multiple owners over the years, the business ended in 1986. Koch Construction was founded by Bill Koch in the early 1970s and the company mostly completed cement work. The company closed when Koch retired in 2000.<ref>{{cite book |author=The Pierson Quasquicentennial Book Committee |date=2008 |title=Pierson, Iowa 1883–2008 |page=54}}</ref>

In 2000, Pierson's business district received new streets and new sidewalks. A celebration was held on the streets with churches having services, a live band playing, food being served, and children decorating the streets with chalk.<ref name="Sioux"/> The 4 Angels Memorial was made to remember four Kingsley–Pierson girls who died after a snowmobile accident in December 2003. The girls were ages 10 to 13 years old.<ref name="Interest"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1057386.html |title=Snowmobile accident kills four K-P girls |last=Melnichak |first=Marsha L. |date=December 15, 2003 |website=The Daily Sentinel |access-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912185805/https://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1057386.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, its World War I memorial was rededicated as part of a [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]] program "to commemorate 100 memorials during the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I".<ref name="War"/> American Legion Post 291 and local citizens obtained help from the Pritzker Museum to receive a $15,000 grant to upgrade the monument.<ref name="War">{{cite web |url=https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/columnists/gallagher/gallagher-pierson-rededicates-world-war-i-monument/article_d45085d3-f775-55f4-9ff9-2c710aca2024.html |title=Pierson rededicates World War I monument |last=Gallagher |first=Tim |date=October 23, 2018 |website=Sioux City Journal |access-date=September 12, 2021 |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711060838/https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/columnists/gallagher/gallagher-pierson-rededicates-world-war-i-monument/article_d45085d3-f775-55f4-9ff9-2c710aca2024.html |url-status=live }}</ref>