PEARSON, Richard Mumford, jurist, b. in Davie county, N. C, 28 June, 1805 ; d. in Winston, N. C, 13 Jan., 1878. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1828, licensed to practise law in 1826, was in the legislature in 1829-33, and an unsuccessful candidate for con- gress in 1834. He was a judge of the superior court in 1836-'48, and at the latter date he was elevated to the supreme bench, succeeding Chief- Justice Frederick Nash in 1850, and holding office until his death. He conducted a law-school at his residence at Richmond Hill for many years. It was attended by hundreds of students from his own and the adjacent states. Judge Pearson was re- garded as one of the leading lawvers of his day.
PEARSONS, Daniel Kimball, benefactor, b.
in Bradford, Vt., 14 April, 1820. He was gradu-
ated at the Medical college of Woodstock, Vt.,
practised for some time at Chicopee, Mass., and in
1857 remoA'ed to Ogle county. HI., where he became
a farmer. From 1860 till 1877 he was a real estate
and loan agent in Chicago. From 1877 till 1880
the treasury of the city of Chicago was in bad con-
dition, and certificates of indebtedness were issued
for the payment of city debts. During this cri-
sis Dr. Pearsons entered the council as alderman.
His integrity, financial ability, and positive assur-
ance to capitalists in Chicago, New York, and else-
where, that Chicago would pay all of its indebted-
ness, did much to restore confidence and relieve
the embarrassment. Having accumulated a fortune,
he retired from active business. During 1887 he
gave away more than $150,000 for the advance-
ment of Christianity, morality, and the relief of
the suffering poor.
PEASE, Alfred Humphreys, musician, b. in
Cleveland, Ohio, 6 May, 1838 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo.,
12 July, 1882. He was educated at Kenyon college,
Ohio, and later studied music in Germany under
Theodor Kullak, Richard Wuerst, Wieprecht, and,
on a second visit to Europe, under Hans von Bil-
low, for three years. After his return he gave
concerts in different cities of the Union, and be-
came known as a brilliant and graceful pianist.
Of his compositions, his songs, of which " Break,
break, break " (1864) was the earliest, were perhaps
most popular, and they found favor with some of
the foremost vocalists of the day. His piano-music
also met with success, and his orchestral composi-
tions include a " Reverie and Andante," " Andante
and Scherzo," " Romanze," and " Concerto " (1875),
all of which have been performed by Theodore
Thomas's orchestra in New York and other cities.
PEASE, Calvin, clergyman, b. in Canaan, Litch-
field CO., Conn., 12 Aug., 1813 ; d. in Burlington,
Vt., 17 Sept., 1863. He was graduated at the Uni-
versity of Vermont in 1838, and was president of
Montpelier academy in 1839-'41. He became pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek in the University of
Vermont in 1842, and in 1845 was appointed its
president, and ordained to the ministry of the Con-
gregational church. While president of the uni-
versity, he was a member of the state board of
education, president of the Vermont teachers'
organization, and took an active part in unifying
the common-school system. Failing health induced
his resignation in 1861, and he became pastor of
the 1st Presbyterian church in Rochester, N. Y.,
where he was especially active in the revival of
1863. Middlebury gave hini the degree of D. D. in
1865, and he became a member of the American
philosophical society in 1883. He was a constant
contributor to the " Bibliotheca Sacra." His pub-
lished addresses include " A Discoui'se on the
Import and Value of the Popular Lecturing of the
Day " (Montpelier, 1840) : " Address before the
Medical Department of the University " (1856) ;
and "Baccalaureate Sermons" (1856-'60).
PEASE, Henry Roberts, senator, b. in Con-
necticut, 19 Feb., 1835. He was educated for a
teacher, followed that calling several years, and was
admitted to the bar in 1859. During the civil war
he was a captain on staff duty in the National
army. He was appointed superintendent of edu-
cation in Louisiana while it was imder military
rule, became superintendent of the education of
freedraen in Mississippi in 1867, took an active part
in the reconstruction of that state, and was ap-
pointed state superintendent of education in 1869.
He also published and edited the " Mississippi
Educational Journal." which was the first of that
character in the south. He was elected to the
U. S. senate as a Republican in 1874, to fill the va-
cancy occasioned by the resignation of Adelbert
Ames, served in 187"4-'5, and in the latter year was
appointed postmaster of Vicksburg, but was re-
moved a few weeks afterward for political reasons.
PEASE, Joseph Ives, engraver, b. in Norfolk.
Conn., 9 Aug., 1809 ; d. at Twin Lakes, near Salis-
bury, Conn., 2 July, 1883. At the age of fourteen
he was placed in a dry-goods store in Hartford,
where he employed his time in imitating labels and
such other designs as came under his notice. He
early showed the inventive faculty, and when a
mere boy constructed a turning-lathe. Before he
knewthat such a thinghad beenthought of by others,
he built a power-loom with which ho wove a strip
of cloth six inches wide by simply turning a crank.
He also devised a propeller on the plan of those
that are now in use. and fitted it into a boat with
perfect success. This was several years before the
adoption of the propeller for steam navigation.
He abandoned trade very soon, and made an at-
tempt at engraving, with an awl for a tool and a
piece of thermometer brass for a plate. This re-
sulted m his being placed with Oliver Pelton, an
engraver in Hartford, with whom he remained un-
til he was of age. In 1835 Pease went to Philadel-
phia, and there he engraved some of his choicest
plates for the '• Gift," an annual. He left Phila-
delphia in 1848. went to Stockbridge, Mass., and
finally settled on a farm at Twin Lakes, where he
died. Like most of our engravers, he found em-
ployment during his later years on bank-note work.
His plates are engraved in pure line, with much
taste and excellence of execution, and are faithful
renderings of the original paintings. His " Tough
Story " after Mount, " Mumble the Peg " after In-
man, and *' Young Traders " after Page, are choice
examples of his work.
PEASE, Phineas, soldier, b. in Somers, Conn.,
16 April, 1826. He was educated in the connnon
schools, and subsequently was employed on rail-
roads in Illinois. He became lieutenant-colonel of
the 49th Illinois infantry at the beginning of the
civil war, was severely wounded at Shiloh, partici-
pated in the battle of Corinth, commanded a bri-
gade at Du Glaise, La., Little Rock. Ark., and
Franklin, Mo., and was at the battle of Nashville,
and numerous subsequent small engagements. In
March, 1865, he received the brevet of brigadier-
general of volunteers. He became general super-
intendent of the Indiana. Bloomington. and West-
ern railroad in 1875, and superintendent of the
Ohio Central railroad in 1880, and in 1885 became
receiver and general manager of the Cleveland and
Marietta railroad.
PEASLEE, Edmund Randolph, physician, b. in Rockingham county. N. H.. 22 Jan., 1814; d. in New York citv, 12 J;ui.. 1878. He was graduated
