Daniel Kimball Pearsons
Born(1820-04-14)April 14, 1820
Bradford, Vermont
DiedApril 27, 1912(1912-04-27) (aged 92)
Hinsdale, Illinois
Occupation(s)Physician, businessman
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Daniel Kimball Pearsons (April 14, 1820 – April 27, 1912) was an American physician and philanthropist.

Biography

Pearsons was born in Bradford, Vermont on April 14, 1820.[1] He graduated in medicine at Woodstock, and practiced in Chicopee, Massachusetts until 1857.[2] He became a farmer in Ogle County, Illinois in 1857.[1]

In 1860, he moved to Chicago, where he rapidly accumulated a large fortune in real estate. From 1876 through 1879, he served as a Chicago alderman from the city's first ward,[3] and assisted in managing the city's financial budgets. He was best known through his large gifts to educational eleemosynary institutions, the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago and Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational) being especially favoured. There are few of the smaller colleges to which he did not give from $25,000 to $250,000, and his gifts ran well up into the millions.

Pearsons was a vegetarian.[4] He ate a fruit and vegetable diet.[5]

He died in Hinsdale, Illinois on April 27, 1912.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1886). History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. The A. T. Andreas Company. p. 413. Retrieved November 12, 2021 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. Vol. IV. American Publishers Association. p. 410. Retrieved July 22, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dr. D. K. Pearsons, 91 Year Old Vegetarian. The Vegetarian Magazine, 1911. Volume 14. No. 8. p. 230.
  5. ↑ Dr D. K. Pearsons Fruit and Vegetable diet 1900. The North-Eastern Daily Gazette, 29 May 1900.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Daniel Kimball Pearsons". The Bulletin. April 29, 1912. p. 1. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

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