Name Daniel Pearsons | ||
Daniel Kimball Pearsons (April 14, 1820 Bradford, Vermont - April 27, 1912) was a United States philanthropist.
Biography
Pearsons graduated in medicine at Woodstock, Vermont, and practiced in Chicopee, Massachusetts, until 1857. He became a farmer in Ogle County, Illinois, in 1857.
In 1860, he moved to Chicago, where he rapidly accumulated a large fortune in real estate. For some years, he served the city as alderman, and assisted in managing its financial budgets. He was best known through his large gifts to educational eleemosynary institutions, the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago and Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational) being especially favored. There are few of the smaller colleges to which he did not give from $25,000 to $250,000, and his gifts ran well up into the millions.