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Edward Nathan Pearson (September 7, 1859 – January 26, 1924) was the
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from 1899 to 1915.


Biography

He was born in West Boscawen, New Hampshire, September 7, 1859, the son of John Couch and Elizabeth S. (Colby) Pearson. He prepared for college in the high school at
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and the academy at Penacook and graduated from
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in the class of 1881. Immediately upon graduation he entered the employ of the Republican Press Association at
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, as city editor of the '' Concord Evening Monitor''. With the exception of one year spent in
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, as
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in a public school, Pearson continued his connection with the Republican Press Association and its papers, the ''Evening Monitor'' and '' Independent Statesman'', for almost twenty years, acting during nearly half that time as managing editor of the papers and business manager of the plant. During his connection with the Republican Press Association he was elected
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of the state and served from 1894 to 1895. In 1899 he was chosen Secretary of State. Pearson was for several years a member of the Board of Health of Concord and an officer of the Association of Boards of Health of the state. He resigned these positions upon his election to the Board of Education of the Union School District in Concord. He was a vice-president of the general alumni association of
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and served on the committee for the nomination of candidates for alumni
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. He was also an officer of the New Hampshire Press Association and of other organizations. He was a member of the
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and other fraternal orders and attended South
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in Concord. On December 8, 1882, he was married to Addie Marie Sargent of
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. They had four children. Person died at the age of 64 on January 26, 1924, in Concord, where he is interred at the Blossom Hill Cemetery.


References

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