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    F. W. PEARSON

    F. W. Pearson. The call of the soil is very strong for some men, as is shown in the career of F. W. Pearson, who, after having accumulated a competence and spending several years in retirement, has recently returned to the pursuits of agriculture and is again numbered among the active agriculturists of Monroe township. Mr. Pearson was born on a farm in Concord township, Miami county, in 1866, a son of George and Mary I. (Harbison) Pearson. His father, for many years an agriculturist in Miami county and one of the highly respected citizens of his community, was a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, in which he fought as a member of an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment. F. W. Pearson was educated in the public schools and early adopted farming as his vocation. For many years he tilled the soil with success, but eventually retired from active labor and took up his residence at Troy. After several years of inactivity his energetic nature urged his return to farming and in November, 1919, he secured his present property in Monroe township, which was formerly owned by Silas Pearson. Here he has made numerous improvements of a modern character and the farm now compares favorably with any of its size in the township. Mr. Pearson has always played a good citizen's role in all movements which have proven themselves worthy, both in the dark days of war and in the piping times of peace. His first marriage, was to Miss Elizabeth Steward, by whom he had one son: George E., now an agriculturist of Monroe township, who was particularly active in the sale of war savings stamps during the World war. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Pearson married Miss Ella Gephart, and they reside in a pleasant home on Troy R. F. D. No. 5.

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