Oscar W. Pearson, a prosperous, enterprising and prominent farmer, who has pursued his vocation for more than a quarter of a century on his present property in Monroe township, was born in this township, August 22, 1867, a son of Elihu and Eliza Jane (Macy) Pearson. His father, who was a life-long agriculturist of Miami county, was a veteran of the Civil war, having served for hundred days as a member of an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and died in 1901, greatly respected and esteemed. There were five children in the family. T. Webster, now retired after many years of agricultural pursuits, and living on his home farm in Miami county, Ohio; William H., also a retired farmer, of Arcanum; Alma, deceased; Lydia, the wife of David Ellerman, and Oscar W. Oscar W. Pearson secured his education in the public schools, following which he became his father's assistant on the home place and resided thereon until after the attainment of his majority. He then embarked in farming on his own account, and in 1893 settled on his present property in Monroe township, where he has 110 acres of fertile land, on which he has modern improvements and substantial buildings. He is considered one of the progressive and substantial men of his community, and from 1911 to 1915 served capably as a member of the board of commissioners of Miami county. Mr. Pearson married Elma, daughter of Joseph Pemberton, of West Milton, and to this union there have been born three children: Treva Helen, a graduate of the Ohio State University; Oscar Wallace, Jr., and Wanita, who spent two years at Miami University and is now in her second and final year of a musical course at the University of Chicago. O. Wallace Pearson, Jr., is a graduate of Miami University, and spent a year each in study at Pullman, Wash., and Leland-Stanford University, California. He began his training as an aviator at the University of Illinois and supplemented this by intensive training in Texas, and after receiving his commission as a lieutenant in the United States Aviation Corps became an instructor at West Point, Miss. He went overseas during the World war and was located there from October 1, 1918, to January 21, 1919, but did not get to see actual fighting at the front because of the scarcity of available planes. Since his return he has followed the vocation of commercial aviator. He married Marion Mabrey Simpson, of Mississippi, and they reside at Cincinnati.