San Joaquin County Biographies


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JESSE W. PEARSON.
 
        A progressive rancher whose enterprise, foresight and scientific methods 
have brought him enviable success and abundant prosperity, is Jesse W. Pearson, 
now residing on the old Stith A. Pearson home ranch where, in the comfortable 
home of his parents, Stith A. and Susan Pearson, he first saw light�the former a 
very substantial Californian whose life-story naturally forms a part of this 
historical volume. Nine children were born to the worthy couple; Richard Bell, 
now deceased, being the eldest, and Stith and Harry, also both deceased, coming 
next. Charles B. lives at Stockton; Nellie, resident in the same city, is Mrs. 
P. W. Owen; while our subject was the sixth in the order of birth. Mrs. Henry 
Harney, of Lodi, was Juanita Pearson before her marriage; and Violet is Mrs. 
Eubanks of Stockton. The youngest child died in infancy.
        Jesse attended the best grammar school to which he could be sent, the 
long popular Greenwood school, and then he helped his father on the home farm 
until 1913, when he rented and managed the home place of two hundred acres 
devoted to grain-farming. Now he owns for himself thirty-five acres of that 
ranch, under fine cultivation. He is aggressive in his management, and as a good 
student, is always alert for the last word of science; he uses the most 
up-to-date methods, and approved implements.
        At Stockton, on July 8, 1912, occurred the wedding of Mr. Pearson and 
Serena Hannah, a native of Canada, where she was born near New Brunswick, the 
accomplished daughter of John and Agnes Hannah. She had accompanied her father 
and mother to California when she was six years old, and they settled in the 
Waterloo district. Mr. Hannah died about ten years ago, survived by his devoted 
wife. The esteemed couple had a family of five children, and Serena continued 
her schooling in the Calaveras district. One child has blessed the union of Mr. 
and Mrs. Pearson, a daughter, Jesslyn. Mr. Pearson is a stanch Democrat, and 
never loses an opportunity to improve, by his broadminded sentiments and 
healthful influence, the status of politics, particularly as they affect local 
conditions.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   995       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.