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Biographies of Lincoln County, WV
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LINCOLN COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: PEARSON, John Wesley
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PJAFLA@aol.com
September 23, 1999
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Source: Hardesty, Henry. H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia. New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West
Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia: Ed. Jim Comstock, Richwood: Comstock, 1974
JOHN WESLEY PEARSON son of William and Belinda
(Holton) Pearson is a native of Lincoln county, born December 5, 1851. He has
been a member of the board of examiners in Carroll district for two years. An
uncle and two cousins of J. W. Pearson served in the Federal army during the
civil war, in which William Pearson, father of J. W. was killed. John Wesley
Pearson owns about 203 acres of fine farming land in Carroll district, three
miles sought of Hamlin. It is heavily timbered well watered and abounds in
coal. Mr. Pearson has been teaching free schoosl in Lincoln county for about
thirteen years, and as a teacher no one in this locality stands higher in the
estimation of the people and as a man he is respected by all. His postoffice
address is Hamlin Lincoln County, West Virginia.
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