RICHARD M. PEARSON
Richard M. Pearson was born in Pennsylvania, August 1, 1833, and is the son of Richard and Mary (March) Pearson, natives of Maryland. His father was a pioneer of Iowa, being among the first to enter land in all the great Hawkeye State, having settled in Clayton county in 1837, in which county he was judge of the probate court for eight years. He died December 23, 1883. Mr. Pearson's mother died in December, 1881, at the advanced age of eighty-eight. The subject of this sketch came to Clayton county, Iowa, with his parents when six years of age, which at that time was an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by the red man. He remained here until May, 1874, growing to manhood and witnessing the settlement and development of that country, when he came to Atlantic, where he has since resided. He was married in 1852 to Eliza Bockover, to whom two children were born--Ella and Ida. His wife died December 25, 1858. He was again married to Annetta Bockover, a sister of his first wife, by whom there has been four children born--Cora, Duey, and Tinney and Minnie, twins. Mr. Pearson was alderman of Atlantic for four years and in politics is a "dyed in the wool" Democrat.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 883.
