Walter Beverly Pearson

Walter Beverly Pearson

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name = Walter Beverly Pearson


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birth_date = 1862
birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin
death_date = 1917
death_place = Chicago, Illinois
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nationality = American
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occupation = President of Standard Screw Company
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children = Frederick Beverly Pearson, Beatrice Pearson
parents = Anna Wayles Hemings Jefferson, Albert Pearson
relatives = Martha Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, Madison Hemings, Eston Hemings, Frederick Madison Roberts, John Wayles Jefferson, Mary Hemings, John Hemings, James Hemings, Betty Hemings


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Walter Beverly Pearson (1862 - May 10, 1917) was an American industrialist, and president of the Standard Screw Company, which, as of 2008, is still in operation as Stanadyne Automotive. [ [http://www.stanadyne.com/svc/literature/Stanadyne%20Brochure.pdf "Standadyne Company History"] ] Leary, Helen "Sally Hemings's Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence" National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 3, September 2001, p. 172] He is believed to have been an unacknowledged great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson and of Jefferson's slave, Sally Hemings. [ [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1976/6/1976_6_28.shtml Brodie, Fawn, Thomas Jefferson's Unknown Grandchildren, American Heritage Magazine, October 1976.] ]

Biography

Pearson's mother was Anna Wayles Hemings Jefferson, a daughter of Eston Hemings and Julia Ann Isaacs. His father was Captain Albert Pearson, a carpenter from Madison, Wisconsin, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. His grandfather, Eston, a son of Sally Hemings, had moved to Wisconsin in 1852, changing his surname to Jefferson, and his racial identity to white.Justus, Judith, "Down from the Mountain: The Oral History of the Hemings Family" Lesher Printers, Inc., 1999, p. 90 - 96]

Pearson operated a small Chicago manufacturing company, which in 1900 combined with several other companies to form Standard Screw. Walter was the company's "first outstanding leader," the driving force behind its initial success in 1904 until his death in 1917. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/stanadyne-automotive-corporation "Company History: Stanadyne Automotive Corporation"] ] ]

Pearson died leaving an estate valued at $2,000,000. The executors of his will were his wife, Helen, and his cousin Carl Jefferson, the son of his mother's brother, Beverly Jefferson. Pearson left a $50,000 annuity to his wife, $12,000 annuity to his daughter Beatrice and son Frederick, and a $50,000 bequest to his cousin Dr. Frederick Jefferson. [ Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1917, "Late President of Standard Screw Leaves $2,000,000"] Pearson's son, Frederick Beverly Pearson, was slated to receive the bulk of the Pearson fortune on his 35th birthday, but died at age thirty when he set himself on fire after falling asleep drunk with a lit cigarette in a Chicago hotel room in 1926. [New York Times, February 21, 1926, "Heir to $2,000,000 Fortune Burned to Death"]

Pearson has no known descendants.

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