Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Pearson, Andy 1818 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

ANDY PEARSON, one of the pioneers of Burlington Township, Lapeer County, is a
Canadian by birth, having been born in 1818, in County Grenville, Maitland, on
the banks of the beautiful St. Lawrence River. There he passed the days of his
boyhood and youth and resided until 1856, when he came to Lapeer County,
locating on sections 3 and 4, of Burlington Township, where the village of
Clifford now stands. An unbroken wilderness then covered the site where stands
the town of Burlington.

  Purchasing at first two hundred acres of Government land, Mr. Pearson went
hard to work and was soon able to add more to his original purchase, until he
had two hundred forty acres of as fine land as is to be found in the county. He
has also prospered in his domestic affairs by taking to himself a wife in the
person of Ruth, daughter of Elijah Bottum. One child was the result of this
union—Justice B., now a merchant at Acton, Ontario. Mr. Pearson married Jane A.
Belamy after the death of his first wife, and by this union there were born two
sons and three daughters. The eldest, Hiram B., resides in the Northern
Peninsula; Herbert A. makes his home at Clifford; Sarah R., is the wife of
William Spencer; Mary J., Mrs. Nathan Stover, and Martha is the wife of Freman
Bentley.

  Our subject is a son of Albert Pearson, a native of Ontario, who pursued the
calling of a tanner and shoemaker and gave his son training in those trades. His
good wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Haley. The paternal grandfather of our
subject, Samuel Pearson, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and came hither and
took part in the War of 1812 upon the British side as a member of one of the
Canadian troops. The grandfather Haley was born in Sheffield, England, and the
maternal grandfather Lynch was with Burgoyne at the time of his surrender.

  During the Patriot War of 1836 and 1837, our subject served as
Second-Lieutenant, a position he held until the close of the war. He has
throughout most of his life given his attention to the tilling of the soil,
although he, for two years was foreman of a construction party on the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain Railroad.

  The political convictions of Mr. Pearson bring him into affiliation with the
Democratic party and he has strong faith that the policy of that body will yet
prove the political salvation of the country. For a number of years he held the
position of Justice of the Peace and in the discharge of the duties of that
office he gained great credit for justice and discretion. When what is now the
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad went through the township, and Clifford was
established as a station, he was made station and ticket agent and held that
position for three years after which he retired from it.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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