Pearson (David) Collection (2004.04)

Biographical note

David Adams Pearson, Jr. was born on 16 February 1917 in North Conway, New Hampshire. He was the first of four children by Reverend David A. and Georgiana (Wardwell) Pearson, married 1916, Cambridge, Massachusetts. David enlisted in the US Army in 1940 while studying at Northeastern University. He married Phyllis Alice Pye in 1945. They had one son, David Pearson, III.

David retired from IBM where he worked as an Engineer. He was a frequent speaker for the Steamship Historical Society of America, including a November 1978 talk that covered many aspects of New York Harbor for the Southern New England Chapter. A March 1979 presentation was on the paddle steamer WAVERLY. Much of the content in his lectures featured his photography of ships and East Coast harbors taken between 1950-1970.

He passed away on 19 December 2020 in Belmont, Massachusetts at the age of 93. Phyllis died in 2007.