Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — JOHN IRVING PEARCE IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

JOHN IRVING PEARCE IS DEAD

Chicago’s Noted Hotel Proprietor Has a Peaceful End. Chicago, 111., special: John Irving Pearce, dean of the Chicago hotel men, and for twenty years proprietor of the Sherman house, is dead. The final summons came suddenly. Although he felt that the sickness which came upon him last Wednesday night would be fatal, the members of the family did not think that the end was so near. Wednesday evening he was about the hotel, but was taken ill before morning. The end was peaceful.