FRANK W. PEARSON, a well known and prosperous farmer of Concord Township, Miami County, Ohio, farms the H.W. Allen farm of 305 acres, located about three and one-half miles northwest of Troy. He also owns and farms a tract of fifty acres south of Troy and in Concord Township. He was born on his father's place in that township, December 7, 1866, and is a son of George and Mary I. (Harbison) Pearson. The Pearson family in the early days were members of the Society of Friends and came to this country from England during the time of William Penn.

Owing to his antipathy to slavery, Joseph Pearson, great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, moved from his home in the Newberry District of South Carolina to Miami County, Ohio. He arrived with his family in 1802, having made the trip in wagons drawn by four horses. It was prior to the admission of Ohio as a state, and the country was in a wild and undeveloped state. They located about four miles south of Troy, in Monroe Township, and there Joseph lived until his death at the age of sixty years.

Thomas H. Pearson, grandfather of Frank W., was fourteen years of age at the time the family moved from South Carolina to Ohio, and was twenty-one years of age at his father's death. He died at the old home in Miami County, where he passed sixty-two years of his life. He and his wife had three children, Ann, deceased; Lydia, deceased; and George.

George Pearson was born on the home farm in Concord Township, February 10, 1834, and has always lived on the place except for eight years spent in the West. In his younger days he spent two years in the photography business and for three years operated a saw mill. Farming has been his chief occupation in life, and he also conducted a nursery with success. In 1856 he was joined in marriage with Miss Mary I. Harbison, by whom he had three children Emma; Frank W.; and William.

Frank W. Pearson spent his boyhood on the home place and received a limited public school education. He began working on the farm at the early age of ten years and has since continued it with good results. He lived at home until his marriage in 1893 then farmed the place of his aunt, Ester Wingett, located west of Troy on the Milton Pike. After three years he farmed the Davis Green place near the Children's Home for three years, and in December, 1900, came to his present location. Just after marriage he purchased the tract of fifty acres he now owns South of Troy, from Henry Wilson and George Pearson, but has never lived upon it. It is well improved and under a high state of cultivation, eight acres of it being devoted to tobacco raising.

January 25, 1893, Mr. Pearson was joined in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in Warren County, Indiana, and is a daughter of Er. and Eliza Stewart. They have one son, George E.