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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

CHARLES J. PEARSON.

     Charles J. Pearson, broker and manufacturers' agent, with offices in the
Gas & Electric building in Denver, was born on a farm in Bourbon county, Kansas,
and was the fifth in order of birth in a family of eight children whose parents
were Jeremiah and Cyrena Gardner (Hoag) Pearson. The father was a native of
Illinois and of English descent, his parents coming to America with their family
and settling in Illinois prior to the Civil war. They were pioneer residents of
Rock Island county and there Jeremiah Pearson was reared and educated. In young
manhood he removed westward to Kansas and at the outbreak of the Civil war he
responded to the country's call for military aid, joining the "boys in blue" of
Company C, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, with which he served with the rank of sergeant,
remaining at the front from the opening of hostilities until victory crowned the
Union arms. He then received an honorable discharge and took up his abode in
Bourbon county, Kansas, where he followed farming and stock raising very
successfully until his death, which occurred January 16, 1884. His wife was born
in Missouri and died in Denver, February 10, 1901, when fifty-four years of age.
Their family numbered six sons and two daughters, of whom one daughter died at
the age of nineteen years.

     Charles J. Pearson began his education in the public schools of his native
state, pursuing his studies at Fort Scott, and his early life to the age of
sixteen years was passed upon the home farm. He then started out to provide for
his own support and to the age of twenty years followed various pursuits. He
later secured employment with the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company at Fort
Scott, Kansas, in the freight department, beginning as a warehouse man, and
after three months' service he was advanced to clerical work and later promotion
brought him to the position of relief cashier. He continued with the Missouri
Pacific until August, 1900, and in September of that year he came to Denver on a
visit which resulted in his becoming a permanent resident of this city. He
secured a position in the freight office of the Burlington Railroad Company at
Denver and afterward was advanced to the place of assistant cashier, filling
that position until July, 1902, when he was transferred to the traffic
department in Denver, with which he was associated until October, 1903. He was
then appointed commercial agent at Pueblo, where he continued until March, 1910,
when he returned to Denver in charge of soliciting. He left the railroad service
on the 1st of April, 1911, to enter his present business as manufacturers' agent
and broker. He has since continued actively in that field, representing several
eastern and southern manufacturers in a business which he has developed to
extensive and gratifying proportions.

     On the 5th of February, 1906, Mr. Pearson was united in marriage in Denver
to Miss Jean Dickson, a native of Maine and of Scotch descent. Mr. Pearson is a
republican in his political faith and fraternally he is connected with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Pueblo and belongs to the Kiwanis Club of
Denver, and also the Lions Club. He is an active and prominent member of the
Central Christian church, is serving on its official board and takes a most
helpful interest in philanthropic and benevolent work of the church and also in
Red Cross work. He stands unfalteringly for the best interests of his country,
for the uplift of the individual and for the promotion of commendable material
interests as manifest in the business activity of the city. In a word, his aid
and influence are always on the side of progress, or reform, of truth, right and
advancement and he holds to high standards of manhood and of citizenship at all
times.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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