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JESSE W. PEARSON
A progressive rancher whose
enterprise, foresight and scientific methods have brought him enviable success
and abundant prosperity, is Jesse W. Pearson, now residing on the old Stith A.
Pearson home ranch where, in the comfortable home of his parents, Stith A. and
Susan Pearson, he first saw light; the former a very substantial Californian
whose life-story naturally forms a part of this historical volume. Nine children were born to the worthy couple: Richard Bell, now deceased, being the eldest,
and Stith and Harry, also both deceased, coming next. Charles B. lives at Stockton; Nellie,
resident of the same city, is Mrs. P. W. Owen; while our subject was the sixth
in the order of birth. Mrs. Henry
Harney, of Lodi, was Juanita Pearson before her marriage; and Violet is Mrs.
Eubanks of Stockton. The youngest child
died in infancy.
Jesse attended the best grammar
school to which he could be sent, the long popular Greenwood school, and then
he helped his father on the home farm until 1913, when he rented and managed
the home place of two hundred acres devoted to grain-farming. Now he owns for himself thirty-five acres of
that ranch, under fine cultivation. He
is aggressive in his management, and as a good student, is always alert for the
last word of science; he uses the most up-to-date methods, and approved
implements.
At Stockton, on July 8, 1912,
occurred the wedding of Mr. Pearson and Serena Hannah, a native of Canada,
where she was born near New Brunswick, the accomplished daughter of John and
Agnes Hannah. She had accompanied her
father and mother to California when she was six years old, and they settled in
the Waterloo district. Mr. Hannah died
about ten years ago, survived by his devoted wife. The esteemed couple had a family of five
children, and Serena continued her schooling in the Calaveras district. One child has blessed the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Pearson, a daughter, Jesslyn. Mr. Pearson is a staunch Democrat, and never
loses an opportunity to improve, by his broad-minded sentiments and helpful
influence, the status of politics, particularly as they affect local
conditions.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
995. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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