Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Pearson, Silas February 2, 1831 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

SILAS PEARSON, farmer, sec. 5, Big Rapids Tp., was born Feb. 2, 1831, in Smith 
Tp., Peterborough Co., Ont., 

Can., and is a son of William and Mary Pearson.  The father of William Pearson 
was a native of 

Massachusetts, an American soldier of the Revolution, and removed to Canada.  
On the advent of the second 

war with Great Britain, his son William went to the Bay State and enlisted in 
the American service, fought 

at Plattsburg and returned to the Dominion after the war was ended.  He is 
still living there and receives 

a pension from the Government of the United States.

Mr. Pearson became a citizen of Michigan in 1870, when he came to Mecosta 
County and bought 68 acres of 

land, where he now resides.  He has placed 50 acres of his farm in a 
creditable state of cultivation, and 

has erected thereon a good frame house.  He was married in October, 1854, to 
Eliza Jane Duard, of Canada, 

where she was born June 25, 1836.  Children:  William D., Jane, Mary, Eliza 
A., John E., Richard Z., 

Harriet A., Joseph A., Nellie and Minnie E.

Mr. Pearson is a member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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