Multnomah-Curry County OR Archives Biographies.....Pearson, Edwin And Arthur 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 370
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     PEARSON FUNERAL CHURCH.  Among the many beautiful mortuaries in Portland, 
none are more complete in equipment and appointments than the Pearson Funeral 
Church, which has been in charge of Edwin and Arthur Pearson since 1918. The 
business was established in August, 1911, by John A. Pearson and his elder 
son, Edwin Pearson, and was maintained at 367-71 Russell street for fourteen 
years. On the expiration of that period a removal was made to the present site 
at 351 Knott street, where they have since occupied a one and one-half story 
and basement building, seventy-five by seventy-five feet. The large grounds 
surrounding the structure afford parking space for thirty cars. The beautiful 
chapel is soundproof and air cooled, with a change of air every four minutes, 
and indeed every provision of a modern funeral home is found in the Pearson 
establishment.

     Edwin and Arthur Pearson, sons of John A. Pearson, have been at the head 
of the Pearson Funeral Church since 1918 and the present building was designed 
by the younger son. The father, John A. Pearson, came to the United States 
from Sweden in 1887 and for four years thereafter resided in Minnesota, on the 
expiration of which period he took up his permanent abode in Portland, Oregon. 
A carpenter and shipbuilder by trade, he followed those lines of activity 
until 1911, when he organized his present business, in the conduct of which he 
has been very active through the intervening period of seventeen years. In 
early manhood he married Hannah Malmstrom, daughter of Peter Malmstrom, who 
came to Oregon about sixty years ago and settled on a farm at Damascus. As he 
was the first settler in that section, he was obliged to blaze his own trail 
to his land claim. Mr. Malmstrom not only followed agricultural pursuits but 
was also an expert blacksmith.

     Edwin and Arthur Pearson are both graduate and certificated embalmers and 
are in every way thoroughly qualified for the business of which they are in 
charge, conducting the same in a most progressive, capable and up-to-date 
manner. Edwin Pearson began his apprenticeship when a youth of nineteen and 
was only twenty-two years of age when he established the Pearson Funeral 
Church in association with his father in 1911. Arthur Pearson married Agnes 
Anderson of Portland, and has a daughter, Emma Jane.

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