Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Pearce, Seth L. 1854 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

SETH L. PEARCE.

    Seth L. Pearce, of section 19, Eagle Creek township, is a life-long resident
of this fertile portion of Lake county, and has been prominently identified with
its farming and stock-raising interests during nearly all his years since
attaining manhood. Very little time has been spent away from the scene of his
childhood joys, and his career has been worked out to a successful degree of
fulness among the people and in the environments that he has known since he
first became conscious of the great world about him. As the head of a happy home
and as a factor in the social and business life of his community he has borne
his share of responsibilities and become known everywhere in his township as a
man of integrity and industrious habits.

  Mr. Pearce was born in Eagle Creek township, Lake county, July 29, 1854, being
the eighth child and the third son of Michael and Margaret J. (Dinwiddie)
Pearce. His father, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Lake county, was born
in 1808 and died in 1861, and his mother was born in 1818 and died August 8,
1894. Besides Seth L., there are six children living: John, in whose biography
on another page further details of family history will be found; Harriet, wife
of Isaac Bryant, of Hebron, Indiana: Nancy Ann, wife of O. V. Servis, also
written of in this volume; Mary J., wife of W. T. Buchanan, of Eagle Creek
township; Susanna, wife of G. H. Stahl, of Eagle Creek township; and Thomas, on
the old homestead.

    Mr. Seth L. Pearce was reared in his native township, and after attending
the local schools went to the Crown Point high school and then to the Northern
Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso. He spent a year and a half in Oregon and
California, but returned to his native township to take up the agricultural
pursuits which have ever since formed his chief occupation and given him his
livelihood. After his marriage he located on the farm where he still resides,
consisting of one hundred and sixteen acres, well improved and under his capable
management producing good general crops and stock. Mr. Pearce is a stanch
Republican, and in church matters is a member of the United Presbyterian church
at Hebron, taking a useful part in its work.

    March 16, 1886, Mr. Pearce married Miss Sarah G. Patterson, a native of
Kosciusko county, Indiana, where she was born July 16, 1859, the daughter of
John and Margaret (Kirkpatrick) Patterson. Her father was born in Pennsylvania,
September 15, 1799, and died April 7, 1864, and her mother in Ohio, August 21,
1819, and died December 12, 1900. She is the only -child of their marriage. She
was reared and educated in her native county. Father Patterson was reared as an
agriculturist in Pennsylvania, and educated in the log-cabin school of "ye olden
days." In his early life he was a Whig, and at the birth of the Republican party
took up its principles. He came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and afterwards to
Kosciusko county, Indiana, in 1843, and there had purchased one hundred and
twenty acres of land in Plain township. He and wife were members of the United
Presbyterian church. Mother Patterson was born in Clarke county, Ohio, and was
seventeen when she became a resident of Indiana. Mrs. Pearce was educated in the
common schools, was also a student in the Warsaw high school three years. She is
a lady of genial, cordial bearing, and her cosy, hospitable home is a haven for
friend or stranger. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce have one daughter, Margaret E., born
March 6, 1887, and who graduated from the Crown Point high school in 1904. She
expects to enter a university of high rank, and take the classical course.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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