Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1902 — LOSS TO TEMPERANCE CAUSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOSS TO TEMPERANCE CAUSE

Samuel F. Pearson, “Parson Sheriff” of Portland, Me., Is Dead. Samuel F. Pearson, the late “parson sheriff” of Portland, Me., would have been tendered, had he lived, the presl-

dential nomination for 1904 national Prohibition party. Mr: Pea£\ son was known throughouHne length and breadth of NewJErfgland for his devottSav to thepatise of prohibition and. for nls-dee|)ly religious character. For twenty-four years he conducted at Portland one of the largest missions in the country, and as a lecturer on temperance he was regarded as a second John B. Gough. In his tours of Europe and America he converted a total of probably 500,000 persons from drunkenness to sobriety. His record at home as a sheriff was remarkable. Within three months the town was cleared of saloons and “dives.” Mr. Pearson was born in Boston in 1841.

Samuel F. Pearson.