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Alzira Peirce
Alzira Handforth Peirce Albaugh (née Boehm; January 31, 1908 – June 19, 2010) was an American political activist, artist, WWII veteran and radio announcer.
==Early life==
She and her siblings moved to Circle, Montana to live as homesteaders after their father, August Abraham Boehm, died. Their mother, Hazel Hunter Handforth (born September 12, 1883, Huntsville, Missouri〔(Hazel Hunter Handforth info ), familysearch.org; accessed May 17, 2014.〕 - died circa 1957, Central Islip, New York)〔(Hazel Handforth death info ), familysearch.org; accessed May 17, 2014.〕 was a suffragette, a homesteader, and later, a restaurateur in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Her father, August Abraham Boehm (born 1880, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – died 1916), was a pioneering Austrian-born〔(''American Jewish Year Book'', Vol. 15 (1913-14), p. 269 ); accessed May 3, 2012.〕 New York City real estate developer of Jewish descent. August Boehm had graduated from Columbia University in 1901〔("Columbia's Class of 1901" ), ''The New York Times'', June 9, 1901; accessed May 3, 2012.〕 but was affected by the panic of 1907 in which his own father, Abraham Boehm (July 28, 1841, Höringhausen, Germany - July 3, 1912, Mount Vernon, New York), a pioneering German-born Jewish〔 New York City real estate developer, lost most of his fortune. Boehm & Coon (est. 1882) had commissioned one of New York's first skyscrapers, the 11-story Diamond Exchange Building (1893–94), as well as The Langham, a prestigious Manhattan apartment building. The elder Boehm partnered with Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in introducing gas engines to Europe.〔(Obituary for Abraham Boehm ), ''New York Times'', July 4, 1912; accessed May 3, 2012.〕
Growing up in McCone County, Montana, Alzira played the harmonica, drew, and rode horses. When she was 13 she returned to New York and sought employment through one of her paternal uncles, an architect. In New York she studied at the Art Students League and later traveled to Paris to study. She painted, sculpted, and drew many works of art. Her poetry was published in ''The New Yorker''.〔"Silent Rivers", ''The New Yorker'', March 2, 1940.〕〔Excerpted from Peter H. Falk et al (eds), ''Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America'', Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.〕
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