Background
Pearson, William Lazarus was born on July 4, 1849 in Coonsboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lazarus and Sarah (Edgerton) Pearson.
Pearson, William Lazarus was born on July 4, 1849 in Coonsboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lazarus and Sarah (Edgerton) Pearson.
Bachelor of Arts, Earlham College, 1875. Master of Arts, Princeton, 1880. Graduate and awarded Hebrew fellowship, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1881.
Student theology and Semitic languages and philology, U. Berlin, 1881-1883, U. Leipzig, 1883-1885, Doctor of Philosophy, 1885.
Principal high school, Fairmount, Indiana, 1875-1876, Southland College, Arkansas, 1876-1877. Minister in Society of Friends since 1882. Pastor Friends’ Church, Minneapolis.
1886-1887.
Professor modern languages, Penn College, 1887-1891, professor Biblical literature and principal Biblical department, 1891-1906. Principal Biblical school and professor Biblical literature and exegesis, Friends University, 1906-1917. Missionary in Tokyo, Japan, 1922-1924.
Organizer and 1st president, 1916-1920, secretary and treasurer 1920-1922, Council of Church College in Kansas Proposed establishing of Quinquennial Conference of America Friends, and delegate to same, 1892, 97.
Delegate to Five Years Meeting of Society of Friends in American, 1912.
Delegate and speaker, American All-Friends Peace Conference, Philadelphia, 1901.
Member Simplified Spelling Board (advisory council), International Society of Apocrypha, Peace Association of Friends in American. Member Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis 36 years.
Married Nancy Greaves, January 1, 1895 (died November 1918). Married second, Alice G. Lewis, June 30, 1922.