Author talk:George Cullen Pearson

Notes

Notes from https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22&sin=TXT - there doesn't seem to be any info in VIAF or such, and nothing that really helps narrow down times of birth or death, but I'm including this here for reference.

• Rubber - nothing strongly connects this:
  • Wrote this article on rubber in mexico: https://archive.org/details/sim_rubber-world_1904-07-01_30_4/page/352/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • "An english rubber plantation in mexico" July 1, 1902 - "George Cullen Pearson, of England" https://archive.org/details/indiarubberworld26phil/page/314/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • "La Esperanza" rubber planation near Orizaba Mexico, March 1, 1906 - https://archive.org/details/indiarubberworld33phil/page/188/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22 - includes an image of him, if this is the same person (alt scan)
  • "now residing in England, his home country", September 1, 1907 - https://archive.org/details/indiarubberworld35phil/page/370/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • "formerly connected" with La Esperanza as of January 1, 1911 - https://archive.org/details/indiarubberworld41phil/page/122/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
• Owned a mine in El Dorado County, California that was one of the first to be electrified, ~1890:
  • https://archive.org/details/sim_factory_1890-10-25_17_9/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • https://archive.org/details/sim_engineering-and-mining-journal_1890-12-06_50_23/page/656/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • https://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-world_1890-10-25_16_17/page/300/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • Those sources give 1890. A separate source from 1912 gives October 1888 in a secondhand manner: https://archive.org/details/pacificservicema1833paci/page/64/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
  • A third source (https://archive.org/details/pgeofcaliforniac0000cole/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22) from 1952 says May 1889 and says he was a former British consul in Japan. That's all that I have to link it together.
• Formed a partnership with Sydney Arthur Lawrence as merchants in Yokohama, Japan - London and China Telegraph 1872.04.22 (and nearby dates) https://archive.org/details/londonchina-1872.04.22/page/302/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
• Literary member of "The Arts Club" in London from 1888-1891 - https://archive.org/details/artsclubitsmembe00roge/page/104/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22 (nothing to explicitly match this, and this seems to be contradictary.)
• According to "Dominica" (1987) https://archive.org/details/dominica0082myer/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22 he wrote "Notes on the island of Dominica, West Indes" OCLC:656505829^{all editions}/(JSTOR) in 1896 (JSTOR doesn't have public access for this, and nothing cross-verifies him)
• According to "Britain and Japan, 1858-1883" (1969) he owned the Japan Mail from January 1877 to May 1878. https://archive.org/details/britainjapan18580000foxg/page/430/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22
• Performed in a play in 1907 https://archive.org/details/jwm-bound-1907.1-6/page/106/mode/2up?q=%22George+Cullen+Pearson%22 - this ties together the firm, ownership of the Japan Mail, and "The Penitent Peri" (i.e. Flights Inside and Outside Paradise)

--Pokechu22 (talk) 04:17, 15 March 2022 (UTC)