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Isaac G. Pearson

Merchant/Insurance

Centurion, 1864–1874

Full Name Isaac Green Pearson

Born 1 January 1791 in Newburyport, Massachusetts

Died 1 June 1874 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Jonathan Sturges and Henry C. Dorr

Elected 12 November 1864 at age seventy-three

Archivist’s Note: Father-in-law of James N. Paulding and William I. Paulding; grandfather of James Kirke Paulding; great-grandfather of Charles G. Paulding

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Century Memorial

There was no more devoted member of the Century, none wiser in care for its interests or more watchful in fostering its material well-being than Isaac Green Pearson.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1875 Century Association Reports