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Pearson, Charles William was born on August 7, 1846 in Selby, Yorkshire, England. Son of Review John Mowbray and Ann (Bentley) Pearson.
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Charles William Pearson
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Education
Educated in Yorkshire schools to 1860. Graduate Northwestern University, 1871, Master of Arts, 1872.
Career
Apprentice to Liverpool firm of ship owners, 1860-1861. Sailed from Liverpool to Calcutta. Clerk in wholesale cloth house, Leeds, England, 1861-1864.
With London firm of accountants, 1865.
With a firm In Buenos Aires, South America, 1865. Teacher in Mechanical Engineering Mission School, Buenos Aires, 1866.
Student Northwestern University, 1867-1871. Tutor German and history, Northwestern University, 1871-1876.
Pastor Mechanical Engineering churches, Bangor and Breedsville, Michigan, 1876-1877.
Tutor in German and history, 1877-1881, Professor of English literature, 1881-1902, Northwestern University An article entitled “Open Inspiration versus a Closed Canon and Infallible Bible,” published in the Evanston Index and the Evanston Press, January 18, 1901, and reprinted in many other papers started a controversy which led him to resign from his chair at Northwestern, and from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Pastor Unitarian Church, Quincy, Illinois, since 1902. Author: Methodism, a Retrospect and an Outlook, 1891.
The Carpenter Prophet, 1902.
Home: Quincy, Illinois.
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Married Sarah Helen French, June 15, 1875.
