Johnson Pearson and Sarah Jane Templeton
Husband Johnson Pearson 1 2
Born: 10 Jan 1819 - Neshannock Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: George Pearson (1779-1871) 1 3 Mother: Sarah Reynolds (1787-1871) 1 2
Marriage: 2 Mar 1846 4
Wife Sarah Jane Templeton 4 5
Born: 7 Apr 1827 4 Christened: Died: 17 Nov 1860 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 4 5 Buried:
Father: Thomas Templeton (Abt 1785-1829) 4 5 Mother: Mary Hezlep (1794-1888) 4 6
Children
1 F Eva Pearson 5 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: James G. Elliott (1838- ) 8 Marr: 7 Jul 1870 9
2 F Agnes Pearson 7
Born: Christened: Died: while young ? Buried:
3 M George Pearson 5 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M James Pearson 5 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
5 M Charles Pearson 5 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Johnson Pearson
He was educated in the log cabin schools and acquired the knowledge of geography and English grammar by his own efforts, his early teachers being unqualified to teach those branches. His boyhood days were spent on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years he entered Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn., where he graduated in 1840 with the degree of A. B., followed by the degree of A. M. a few years afterward. September 4, 1840, he came to Mercer and began reading law with the firm of Pearson & Stewart, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was appointed deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania by Gov. Johnston, and served two years. When the office of district attorney was established he was elected to that position, and served for three years. He was at one time the regular nominee by the Republicans for president judge of Mercer County, or rather the Mercer district, and was defeated because of an independent ticket being put in the field. [HMC 1888, 693]
He was born on his father's farm in Neshannock Township, then Mercer, later Lawrence County, PA, about four miles north of New Castle. He attended the neighborhood schools established and supported by the voluntary subscriptions of the people-the common school system not having been provided by the laws of the state at that time. There being no branches taught except reading, writing and arithmetic, he bought, with money derived from the sale of chestnuts, fruit and hickory nuts, works on geography and English grammar and studied those branches at home in the evenings. He lived at home with his parents, employed in severe farm labor, until something over eighteen years of age. In May, 1837, he entered Allegheny College at Meadville. While a student there he was a member of the Philo-Franklin Literary Society. He graduated with the degree of A. B. August 14, 1840, and came to Mercer, PA, on the l4th day of September, 1840, for the purpose of studying law; he pursued that study with John J. Pearson, son of Bevan Pearson, and William Stewart, a firm soon after changed to Pearson & Hays, and was admitted to practice his profession in the courts of Mercer County in December, 1842; he was admitted to membership in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on the 26th day of October, 1857, on motion of William M. Stephenson, Esq. [HMC 1909, 875]
In September, 1848, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General for Mercer County and served until that office was abolished by Act of Assembly of May 3, 1850, and then was elected District Attorney and performed the duties of that office until the first Monday of January, 1854. Thus he was the last Deputy Attorney General and the first District Attorney for Mercer County. He always took an active part in political and other movements affecting the community and commonwealth within which he lived, but it was a distinctive characteristic that he never was ambitious of acquiring wealth or of holding office. His interest in the schools was unflagging and it may not be saying too much to add that much of their past and present efficiency is due to him. During a period covering nearly three-quarters of a century spent in the community with which, in 1840, he elected to cast his lot, he has given full measure of service to his fellowmen in precept, practice and the example of a pure and upright life. Possessing a highly developed legal mind, rich in literary attainment, standing in the front rank of advocates of man's freedom, temperance and every measure looking to the advancement of humanity; ever acquiescent in the fundamental principle that the Law of God should be the paramount rule of action in Man, Johnson Pearson has been loyal to Truth, to his convictions of Right and to the traditions and standards of an honorable ancestry. [HMC 1909, 876]
Notes: Marriage
They were married by Rev. Joseph T. Smith.
1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 692.
2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 874.
3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 869.
4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 875.
5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 693.
6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 698.
7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 876.
8 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 661, 692, 693, 722.
9
—, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 661.
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