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Nancy Jane Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Nancy was born.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.
• Death*: Nancy died on 2 March 1888.

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2005

Jarvis Roebuck Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Jarvis was born on 28 February 1832.
• He was the son of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Mary Jane Young Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Mary was born on 23 August 1834.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Catharine Roebuck Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Catharine was born on 21 April 1837.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Isabella Sweitser Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Isabella was born on 21 February 1840.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Anna Sweitser Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Anna was born on 31 October 1842.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

James Frost Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: James was born on 11 August 1846.
• He was the son of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

William Bancroft Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: William was born on 3 September 1848.
• He was the son of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Eliza Sullivan Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Eliza was born on 18 January 1853.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Julia Mothershead Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Hannah Frost b. 20 Mar 1809, d. 18 Feb 1886

• Birth*: Julia was born on 2 November 1856.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Hannah Frost.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Lewis C. Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Abigail Carman b. 1 Sep 1794, d. b 1829

• He is the son of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Abigail Carman.

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2005

Jarvis Roebuck Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Abigail Carman b. 1 Sep 1794, d. b 1829

• Birth*: Jarvis was born on 17 January 1820.¹
• He was the son of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Abigail Carman.
• Marriage*: Jarvis married Deborah Ann Daynes on 25 March 1843.¹
• Death*: Jarvis died on 29 October 1887, Christian Holk, Long Island, Indiana, at age 67.

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2005

Huldah Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Abigail Carman b. 1 Sep 1794, d. b 1829

• Marriage*: Huldah married Jacob Miller Gray.¹
• She is the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Abigail Carman.

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2005

Mary Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Abigail Carman b. 1 Sep 1794, d. b 1829

• Married Name: Her married name was Dunham.
• Marriage*: Mary married Victor Dunham.¹
• Birth*: Mary was born.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Abigail Carman.
• Death*: Mary died in February 1888.

• Last Edited: 8 Jul 2005

Julia Pearsall

• Father: Peter Roebuck Pearsall b. 1 May 1790, d. 28 Mar 1878
• Mother: Abigail Carman b. 1 Sep 1794, d. b 1829

• Married Name: Her married name was Baldwin.
• Marriage*: Julia married William Baldwin.¹
• Birth*: Julia was born.
• She was the daughter of Peter Roebuck Pearsall and Abigail Carman.

• Last Edited: 4 Sep 2006

Emma Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Emma was born on 23 March 1845.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Emma died on 10 June 1851 at age 6.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Julia Anna Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Note*: Chap 42 sec 16     
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• Marriage*: Julia married Chester F. Burdick.
• Married Name: Her married name was Burdick.
• Birth*: Julia was born in September 1841.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Chester F. Burdick

• Marriage*: Chester married Julia Anna Pearsall, daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Eliza Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Eliza was born on 12 March 1840.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Eliza died on 10 June 1842 at age 2.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Caroline Jacobs Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Marriage*: Caroline married James E. White.
• Married Name: Her married name was White.
• Birth*: Caroline was born on 8 July 1843.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005

Alfred Everson Pearsall¹

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Note*: Chap 42 sec 16 Z 1328     THE PEARSALL FAMILY      142-151
  Alfred Everson Pearsall founded the News Bureau which devoted itself to
  gathering the news of the Wall Street zone of the city of New York. It was the
  ally of all the metropolitan papers and the source from which came the daily report
  of financial and business affairs sent out over the country by the Associated Press.
  
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  It is not possible to write an accurate history of Alfred Everson Pearsall. We are too near the events of his life to give them their exact value, but as to Alfred Everson Pearsall, this can be said, his history is so inseparably connected with the financial growth of this country, that the history of its business for his generation must accord him a large space in its record. It is needless to say that such an organization as he founded is the eyes and ears of the business world. Through it was gained the knowledge and impressions which have moulded and guided the business and financial affairs of the country at large. It is easy to comprehend that such a man must be trustworthy, truthful, reliable, fair and disinterested; that he must be farseeing, yet microscopic in his vision. Any one can tell of the big things already accomplished. It takes the man of discernment and most minute view to discern the germs of movements that will ultimately grow into great enterprises. It takes the judicial mind to sift the false from the true; and to-do it day after day for a lifetime, and yet win the approval of the man in the Street, betokens talents far beyond the ordinary and tells of training such as very few men have. Then the dryest facts must be dressed up so that they are entertainingly presented. It is comparatively easy to write of flowers and fruits but to detail day by day the doings of the Bulls and Bears of finance and to yet -be uncontaminated by the sordid selfishness which controls most of their desires and purposes requires a man with a soul above things mundane. Hence the reader of his story, as related by himself, must keep in mind that behind the expressions .of dire want is really the keen-sighted man of vision, pouring out his irony and covert sarcasm against those who think that the mere possession of wealth is the only badge of true greatness. For he never lost the perspective of things which he saw in the field of the country's money market. Hence he reported about money and bonds and banks and bankers in a way calculated to bring them within the power of the truth, and in such a manner as to aid in the upbuilding of the whole land and all the people. To him the acquisition of bonds and money was not desirable for the power and wealth thereby obtained, but that they never should cease to be instruments for the good and right purpose of making all the people happy. Year after year he spent his holidays in the gypsy wagon which he owned, and in which he wandered all over the country seeking above all other things to regain renewed contact with the common people. Hence the broad and wide vision and the wonderfully accurate discernment which he brought to the dissemination of what otherwise would have been only the sordid news of the money world; which world knows nothing about and cares less for the rest of mankind except in so far as they can be made the means of paying tribute to the comparatively few of the monetary class.
  
  He was also a journalist of commanding position, but he will be better remembered by the part he has taken in the development of the financial and business interests of the country. He was withal a delightful companionable man, as we can well understand after reading the following account he has written of himself. But the reader must take in a Pickwickian sense his references to poverty. He and his were and are men of ample means.
  
  According to the Book my name is Alfred Everson Pearsall, the oldest son of Phineas Carman and Catherine Morgan Pearsall, and by the same token I was
  
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  born in Butler Street, near Court Street, Brooklyn, April 18 1847. My father's father was Peter Roebuck Pearsall, organist of a Moravian Church, I don,t know where-and like most musicians, he was poor. My own father inherited his tendency to be musical and poor-poor as to this world's goods but rich, rich indeed, in the graces and tenderness of a refined, gentle, poetic nature so that when it came his time to die, all kinds of people, rich and poor, alike, even the blacks, surrounded Squire Pearsall's bier-and a very few of them all were worthy to touch the hem of his garment or to loose the latcht of his shoe. Some very good men with a mistaken idea of life sighed: What a failure, not appreciating the
  songs he had sung at their festivals and funerals, the fetching stories he had told
  and the Gospel of Good Cheer his life had always been to the living and dying.
  When I consider the musicalness of my grandfather and of my father and my
  own misfortune in that direction it is not so difficult for me to think that there
  may be some kind of a crest for me which I don't want, anyhow. I say my own
  misfortune because I've been everlastingly bothered with music interruptions
  when I've been saying I won't be musical, I won't learn a note and then I can't
  teach music and wear a shawl and long hair. However, I've never let my hair get
  very short for the matter of that. But while I don't know one note from another
  I've had the nerve to sing in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and make
  money for it. I've sung from Maine to California and from the Canadian border
  to the Mexican border.
  Shall I tell you about the time I sang in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City?
  Well, I'll put my time against yours, since I'm just rambling at best. I was a
  delegate to the Convention of the International League of Press Clubs in San
  Francisco in the winter of 1,893. En route we were royally entertained by every
  big city our long train passed through. Dear Kate Field and Mrs. Frank Leslie
  and Elita Proctor Otis and Belva Lockwood were of the party and so was
  Marshall P. Wilder, there being a train of eight cars of newspaper people.
  At Salt Lake City we were the guests of the city. As a part of our entertain-
  ment a sacred concert was given in the tabernacle, a feature of which was oratorio
  singing by a choral union consisting of 350 gentiles and 350 Mormons. The work
  of these 700 singers was thrilling; for what better acoustics were offered in the
  known world than the acoustics of the old Mormon tabernacle, with its famous
  pin-dropping test.
       Of course, the alleged highbrows from the East had to contribute that evening;     
  and, before I knew what was going on I stood in front of the great pipe organ, at
  one time the world's greatest organ, and was told to sing, facing 12,000 people.
  What, inquired the longhaired organist; as I felt called on to quit or say some-     NMI,
  thing, I managed to say: The Palms. What key? I didn't know for the life of
  me. This key, I said, stepping to the organ and fingering the place I knew by
  heart, but couldn't name. That organist's introduction was an inspiration. I
  stepped aboard at the proper place and we were off. First it was the organ and
  then it was me; and then it was the organ again plumb to the finish. I'd only got
  fairly started when I pulled out my nux vomica; the organist saw me and pulled
  out his aurora borealis; with that I dragged on my eucalyptus tremolo. Not to be
  outdone in politeness the organist brought out his buranto, how-come-you-so. By
  
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  that time the palms were beginning to sprout in every seat and at the conclusion of the first verse the palms came together in a way that told me I had scored and that the cunning thing was for me to retire while the going was good.
  
  The organist wouldn't have it so, nor the audience either, so back I went, grabbed a chest full of various sounds which I organized and liberated into some sort of shape that made out the concluding verse, in the course of which, however, the organ came to a dead pause and left me to sing unaccompanied or to stop. As I finished the phrase the organ came in on the last word with everything wide open and my voice riding the air an octave above a level that I'd ever undertaken. It was a dramatic climax to an eventful musical career.
  
  In a recent letter Leigh M. Pearsall writes --My father travelled many hundreds of miles in his camp wagon and with his team of Texas horses, having in the rear of the wagon a full size bed and also a little organ which he used throughout h is journeys to entertain himself and also the people at whose places he would stop to camp from time to time. He drove up through the New England states into Canada and went as far south as North Carolina. One of his many exciting experiences included being held up by moonshiners in West Virginia. They assumed he was a revenue officer and refused to allow him to camp on the rocky mountain road where he had pulled up and ordered him to leave the mountainsthey hastened him down a precipitous road with rifle balls so placed as to hasten his gallop and yet they, being undoubtedly expert markmen, gave him to understand that so long as he kept moving they would not take his life. His organ broke loose and thrashed around in the wagon, as did his bed, his wheels were dished and were it not for the fact that he had made companions of his horses so they were reasonably easily gotten under control at the foot of the mountain he would undoubtedly have been killed.
  
  He was a most interesting character, a great traveler, a man of exceptional literary talent and was possessed of a most wonderful voice which earned him many thousands of dollars during his young and middle life. As an elocutionist on the platform he was conceded to be a dean of them all. I could cite hundreds of instances, all going to prove him to be a most versatile man. He had enemies but they were of the type which caused Teddy Roosevelt to state, I love him for the enemies he has made. As a newspaper publisher he attacked graft, political chicanery and back room politics without compromise. His close friends were legion. I recall as a young man our leaving his office in Wall Street for the ferry to catch a certain train, having ample time to make the boat, but we were exactly one and a half hours late in arriving at the ferry because of the many stops he was called upon to make by friends he met on the way. He neither smoked nor drank and, while a bitter enemy once his hat was in the ring, he was true blue with all his friends, more particularly those in distress, his motto being that of the Salvation Army, a man may be down but never out. His quiet contributions to improvident friends reached into the thousands of dollars as we have since learned through going over his check books. He never took notes, believing these friends would repay him if ever it came within their power. The last twelve years of his life were spent in the Canadian waterways during the summer and in Melrose, Florida, during the winter. At the latter place he had a most remarkable homewhich he called the Latchstring, where his doors were never locked and his home was headquarters for the whole country side. His death was a great loss to all in Westfield, N. J., his home town, to his hundreds of Wall Street friends and his little Florida town has never been anything like the same since he passed on.²
  
  
  
• Birth*: Alfred was born on 18 April 1847.³
• He was the son of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Marriage*: Alfred married Amanda Terry on 18 November 1869.
• Death*: Alfred died on 28 April 1919 at age 72.

• Last Edited: 14 Oct 2006

Frederick Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Frederick was born on 11 February 1849.
• He was the son of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Frederick died on 4 April 1849.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Lavinia Watson Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Married Name: Her married name was Fitch.¹
• Marriage*: Lavinia married Allen Cady Fitch.¹
• Birth*: Lavinia was born on 25 May 1851.¹
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.

• Last Edited: 19 Oct 2004

Matilda Lawson Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Matilda was born on 9 November 1852.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Married Name: As of 9 November 1871,her married name was Embree.
• Marriage*: Matilda married Edward Lawrence Embree, son of Effingham Embree, on 9 November 1871, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
• Death*: Matilda died on 21 May 1935, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, at age 82.

• Last Edited: 13 Mar 2005

Laura Anta Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Laura was born on 19 November 1856.
• She was the daughter of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Laura died on 11 January 1863 at age 6.¹

• Last Edited: 18 Mar 2004

Rollin Burdick Pearsall

• Father: Phineas Carman Pearsall b. 6 Sep 1817, d. 28 May 1896
• Mother: Catherine Ann Morgan b. 6 Sep 1821, d. 24 May 1908

• Birth*: Rollin was born on 7 July 1861.
• He was the son of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan.
• Death*: Rollin died on 30 July 1879 at age 18.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Amanda Terry

• Marriage*: Amanda married Alfred Everson Pearsall, son of Phineas Carman Pearsall and Catherine Ann Morgan, on 18 November 1869.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Jay Herbert Pearsall

• Father: Alfred Everson Pearsall b. 18 Apr 1847, d. 28 Apr 1919
• Mother: Amanda Terry

• He is the son of Alfred Everson Pearsall and Amanda Terry.
• Marriage*: Jay married Mabel Clara Fitch on 22 February 1901.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Mabel Clara Fitch

• Marriage*: Mabel married Jay Herbert Pearsall, son of Alfred Everson Pearsall and Amanda Terry, on 22 February 1901.

• Last Edited: 27 Aug 2003

Clifford Everson Pearsall

• Father: Alfred Everson Pearsall b. 18 Apr 1847, d. 28 Apr 1919
• Mother: Amanda Terry

• Birth*: Clifford was born on 15 November 1870.
• He was the son of Alfred Everson Pearsall and Amanda Terry.
• Marriage*: Clifford married Grace Caroline Moffett on 22 February 1894.

• Last Edited: 27 Jul 2005