Caledonia

PEARSON, Ora

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 366
(extracted from a section on the history of Peacham, Caledonia County, 
Vermont)

Rev. Ora PEARSON, born 06 October 1797 in Chittenden [Rutland County, 
Vermont], graduated at Middlebury College in 1820, and at Andover Theological 
Seminary in 1824. In 1826 was settled as pastor at Kingston [Rockingham 
County], New Hampshire, where he remained seven years, after which he labored 
three and a half years as a missionary in Canada East* [Lower Canada?], and 
next settled over the churches of Gover and Barton [both in Caledonia County, 
Vermont], where he remained six years. The last six years of his life were 
spent in Peacham [Caledonia County], where he [Ora PEARSON] died 05 July 
1858, aged sixty years. Bereft of his eyesight, at about fifty years of age, 
he ceased to act as pastor, though continuing to preach as opportunity 
presented until his last sickness. He was a good man, of unfeigned humility 
of spirit, tender, peaceable, conscientious, earnest in his work and in his 
convictions, a man of prayer, of faith and love, dying in calm and joyful 
hope of entering the saints' everlasting rest.

[* Ten and a half years from 1826 is 1836 or 1837, before the law 
establishing Canada East and Canada West was passed (1840). If he was in 
Canada when it was called "Canada East," then one or more of the following is 
true: he settled in Kingston later than 1826, was in New Hampshire longer 
than seven years, or spent more than three and a half years in Canada.]

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