Miami Union
October 14, 1876
PEARSON, JOSEPH ELBRIDGE - At his residence in Troy, on Tuesday
evening last, of typhoid fever, after an illness of near four weeks, Joseph
Elbridge Pearson, aged 34 years. In the death of this young man, our
community has lost one of its most active, energetic, enterprising and popular
members. As a business man Mr. Pearson had no superior and few equals in
this section of Ohio. To this were added a genial manner and remarkable
social qualities which gave him a popularity rarely enjoyed by any one.
This was most signally exemplified in those cases in which he permitted himself
to be a candidate for office. Although a decided Democratic partizan, and
nominated by a party convention, he was elected Representative to the State
Legislature in 1873, in this strong Republican County, by a decisive majority,
and was subsequently, then nominated as a candidate for Congress, by the same
party, beaten by only a few hundreds in a district with three thousand
Republican majority. Mr. Pearson was exceedingly kind-hearted, benevolent,
liberal, and his death produces a vacuum here that cannot be easily filled.
The high esteem in which he was held was well shown in the unusually large
attendance at his funeral, when his remains were escorted to their final resting
place in Rose Hill Cemetery by one of the largest concourses of citizens--not
only of Troy but of all the surrounding country and towns of the county, on
Thursday afternoon.
"In the midst of life we are in death."
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"What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue."
Mr. Pearson leaves a wife and one young son to mourn an irreparable
loss, and a very large circle of friends who deeply regret the death of so
useful a man before he had reached the half-way post on the journey of life.
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