Biography

04/03/1850 - 09/29/1919


PEARSON, George, a Clerk from Mercer County; born, April 3, 1850 in Mercer County, Pa.; A.B., Harvard University, 1870; message clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate (1877-1878); reading clerk, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1881-1882); reading clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate (1883-1884); elected, Chief Clerk, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (January 6, 1885-January 18, 1887, resigned); private secretary, Pennsylvania Governor James A. Beaver (1887-1892); appointed, prothonotary, State Supreme Court (1892-1919); died, September 29, 1919 in Rennerdale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mercer Citizens Cemetery, Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.


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