Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of John Wesley PEARSON The Biography of John Wesley PEARSON was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1894. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock 1974 JOHN WESLEY PEARSON son of William and Belinda (Holton) Pearson is a native of Lincoln county, born December 5, 1851. He has been a member of the board of examiners in Carroll district for two years. An uncle and two cousins of J. W. Pearson served in the Federal army during the civil war, in which William Pearson, father of J. W. was killed. John Wesley Pearson owns about 203 acres of fine farming land in Carroll district, three miles sought of Hamlin. It is heavily timbered well watered and abounds in coal. Mr. Pearson has been teaching free schoosl in Lincoln county for about thirteen years, and as a teacher no one in this locality stands higher in the estimation of the people and as a man he is respected by all. His postoffice address is Hamlin Lincoln County, West Virginia.