John Jamison Pearce (Pennsylvania Congressman)

John Jamison Pearce (February 28, 1826 – May 26, 1912) was a

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member of the

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from

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. John J. Pearce was born in

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. He completed preparatory studies and was ordained a minister in the

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when eighteen years of age. He joined the Baltimore Conference and served as pastor at Warriors Mark, Jersey Shore, and

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. Pearce was elected as an

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candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for reelection in

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. He served as a pastor in various localities until he retired to Lock Haven in 1888. He moved to

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, where he died in 1912. Interment in Highland Cemetery in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

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