Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Pearce, John 1842 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN PEARCE.

    John Pearce, the well-known stock-raiser of Section 24, Eagle Creek
township, has spent all his life of over sixty years in Lake county, and belongs
to one of the pioneer families of northwestern Indiana. He did not enjoy many
years of grace during his boyhood, for just about as soon as he could manage a
plow or perform the ordinary duties of a farm he took his deceased father's
place and helped provide for the family welfare. He has been more than
ordinarily successful, and his fine hogs and cattle have a high reputation
throughout the county. While so busily engaged with the serious side of life, he
has not neglected the many other interests of society and citizenship, and is
held in high esteem for the worthy career that he has made for himself during a
long life in one community.

    Mr. Pearce was born on the farm where he now resides, January 11, 1842. His
grandfather, Squire Pearce, was a native of New Jersey, of Scotch origin, and
was among the pioneers of LaPorte county, Indiana. Michael Pearce, the father of
John, was born near Hamilton, Ohio, in 1808, and died in 1861. He was reared in
his native place, and in 1838 accompanied his father to Indiana, making
settlement in Lake county, where he passed the remainder of his years. He
married Mary J. Dinwiddie, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818, and
died August 8, 1894. Mr. John Pearce was the oldest of ten children, seven of
whom are living, the others being: Harriet, wife of Isaac Bryant, of Hebron,
Indiana; Nancy Ann, wife of O. V. Servis, of Eagle Creek township: Mary J., wife
of W. T. Buchanan, of Eagle Creek township; Susanna, wife of G. H. Stahl, of
Eagle Creek township; Seth L.; and Thomas, on the old homestead.

    Mr. John Pearce attended one of the primitive log-cabin schools, now a thing
of ancient history in Indiana. He got efficient training in farm work from his
father, and at the latter's death he took up the management of the home place
and has carried it on ever since. He has one hundred and twenty acres in the
home farm and fifty acres elsewhere in the township, .and he and his son Jay M.
make a specialty of raising hogs and cattle, respectively of the Poland China
and Shorthorn varieties. He has fine facilities for hog-raising, and has been in
the business for twenty-five years.

    Mr. Pearce is a stanch Republican in politics, and has taken a good
citizen's part in public affairs. He is an active member of the Masonic lodge at
Crown Point. He was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Foster, a native of
Pennsylvania and a daughter of Frederick and Betsey Foster, likewise natives of
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Pearce was reared in her native state to the age of sixteen,
and then came to Lake county, and in this and in Porter county taught school for
several years before her marriage, being one of the instructors in Ball
Institute at Crown Point. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce have two children living, and two
are deceased: Florence is the wife of Thomas Ross, of Eagle Creek township; and
Jay M. is the partner of his father.


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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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