Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-21
GROWING OLD HAPPILY.
Example of DIR. PearsOns, Distributor
of . Fortune.
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Chicago Inter Ocean.
Dr. Daniel X. Pearsons announces that
his spacious home in Hinsdale for a quarter
century is for sale. and that by the time
he reaches his next birthday, on April IA.
he will have paid all his debts" and
finished disposlng of his estate in such a
way that there win be no possibility Of
heirs Quarreling over II, for the reason that
there will not be anything left beyond his
personal maintenance.
Born in 1870 in Vermont. Daniel Kinball
Pearsons had a common school education,
was school teacher at 16, graduated in
medicine in 1s42, practiced his profession
successfully in Chicopee, Mass, for fifteen
years, in 1857 became a farmer In Ogle
county, Illinois, and in 1850 engaged in the
real estate and mortgage loan business in
Chicago, and in the next forty years built
up a great fortune, which for the last
twenty he has been giving away wisely.
Social philosophers have often remarked
that the successful physician is commonly
successful when he goes into commerce OF
finance, probably because of the training
he has obtained as physician in observing
men and dealing with them. Whether this
be true as a general rule or not, 1t GER
tainly is true In DIR. Parsons case.
Thus promoting the development of his
country Daniel X Pearsons prospered with
1t, and some twenty years ago entered upon
the third stage OF his career. that OF dis
tributing wisely for the benefit of education
the fortune he had acquired. To do this
carefully and effectively he has been
granted the blessing OF unusual length OF
days.
Others have given larger fortunes to the
public benefit, but we doubt IL any other
man mas given away a fortune so effec-
lively, or had a better time aud happier
years doing it. than Dr. Pearsons. No one
who spoke with him for a quarter hour
could doubt that he was having the best
kind OF a good time and really enjoying life
more at IS than most men do at IS.
His plan OF giving was well calculated
to produce enjoyment for any kindly and
thinking man. He had not only the pleas
ure Of aiding a worthy cause, but also
what is really the greater pleasure, of beins
the means Of melting other men to put forth
all the strength they had in a worthy cause
He not only gave, and had the pleasure OF
giving, but he also had the pleasure of NOV
ing men to do thier best and OF bringing
out all the ability there was in them.
The debts" of which Dr. Pearsons spoke
| in his announcement OF the Approaching
conclusion of his educational enterprises
are sums which he has promised to variou.
colleges on condition that other friend,
of the institutions give as much, or severa
times as much. according to circumstances
In this way DIR. Pearsons has given abou
$6,000,O 900 to education.
| DR.. Pearsons is sometimes spoken o.
es an illustration of the wisdom Of a mar
being his own executor" since only thu
can he be sure that his property goes IL
ways he would fully approve We sugEes
that he is a better illustration OF an import
ant discovery. in the art of growing OLE
happily in effectively moving others to d,
their best for good causes For we doub
If Daniel X. Pearsons has had any happier
years in his long life than the score IL
which he has thus moved his fellow mel
to show the power that is in them and tn,
reality OF their membership in what hal
been called The Church OF the Best Licks.