Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-17

A. Walton Pearson, associated with The Bulletin for the past Al years, | first as city editor and then as editor in chief, died about o'clock Tues | day morning at his home, No. 69 | Pearl street. Up to within about | month ago he had enjoyed full physl- cal and mental vigor, but on his 18th birthday, Feb. 18th, he suffered slight shock and had been confined to the house since then. Encouraging signs of recovery had given hopes of 1 his restoration to health. but he was taken with a sinking spell Tuesday morning and passed peacefully away.
 MT. Pearson's connection with the newspaper and printing business had been life long and had covered in that
 time everything from newspaper boy and printers apprentice to editor in chief. With The Bulletin he was city editor from 1879 to 1893 and from that time on had been editor in chief. | His versatility was well illustrated in The Man Who Talks, long a Saturday morning feature of The Bulletin, and l his later creation and conduct of The l Social Corner and The Wide Awake Circle. Among his newspaper asso- | ciates he was recognized and esteem- l ed as master and leader worthy of emulation whose removal comes to l C6CA -OIiC WILL oCl1SC OL POl | loss. Out of his wide experience he was ready with helpful suggestion | and advice, always showing an in- | terest. in the advancement of those i whom he could help.
 1 Of strong convictions and positive l in expressing his ideas, he was tol- erant of the opinion of others and l kept a mind open to the truth and l was warm hearted and delightful friend to those who knew him inti- mately.
 "A Walton Pearson was born in
 New wburyport, Mass, Feb. F, 1S42, the
 son'.of Ariel Pearson, Jr., and Emily
 (Colby) Pearson. On the paternal
 side he was descended from John Pearson, an Englishman. who in 164S
 established at Rowley, Mass, the first
 fulling mill in America. On the ma , ternal side the Colby family traces descent to an ancestor who lived ir the little town of Colberg on the
 Danish coast several centuries ago.
 His education was obtained in tho schools of Newburyport, and his jour
 nalistic- career was foreshadowec
 when at the age of eight he became
 a carrier for the Newburyport Her ! aid. Several years later he entered , the office as an apprentice and s' z served for two years. He was on' : of the last indentured, or longtime { printers apprentices. In 1859 he cam I to Connecticut with John Quinc. 7, Adams Stone, one of, the owners o q the Herald, and with him finished hi
 apprenticeship on the Windhan , County Transcript at Danielson. MI !, Pearson was taught the entire busi ? ness and in the absence of the edi tor used to take editorial charge o :, the paper.
 In May, 1882, he enlisted in Co.
 18th Massachusetts Volunteers, an
 was in the Department of the Gul 5 under General Banks when Port Hud . son was captured. He was honorabl k discharged in September, 1863.
 5. MT. Pearson returned to 'Danielso l in 1884, then completing his appren e ticeship con the Windham Count l, Transcript. For a few months h !. worked in Boston in book office, at '- ter which he became foreman of th # Middletown County (Mass) Journa
 published at Woburn. After a yea IS and a half at Woburn, he went { d Nashua, N. H, where he was employ :; ed as job printer and foreman fc r. two years. He left there to accel j. more lucrative position in the New s. buryport Post office under George i'd L.. Colby, one of the best known ed Id tors of Eastern Massachusetts. t. 1869 MT. Pearson was associated wi " Mir. Stone and MT. Colby in the pu m chase of the Willimantic Journal ul s, der the firm title of Stone, Pearson
 Co. In 1870 Mir. Stone retired fire
 the firm and the business was col
 tinued until May 1872 when it ";
 sold out to Barber & Co.
 :, In April of 1873 MT. Pearson ente u; '; ed the newspaper field in Norwi 10 vUhaY ho fod ha rjfxy nl; " of the Norwich Evening Advertis Ir' Upon the discontinuation of the A 'ss vertiser in 1875. he was by vote u' u' the directors of the Advertiser Cor '. pany made editor of the Norwich A ,,I rora, a democratic weekly par |. |. which he edited until November IS at In March, 1879, he accepted the ci editorship of The Norwich Buffet which he held until 1893 when he to the full editorial management.
 has been a correspondent of the N s York Herald and the New York Fri O., une and has written natural histo cir articles for the Philadelphia Press. ye was the associate editor of The o is server. a magazine devoted to micro ir- copy and natural history, and " m- also member of the National Ge to graphic Society. He was keenly nd tercsted in lepidoptera and had
 a choice collection of exotic butte in flies and moths. In his official DO: by tion in the newspaper field. 1t v of said of him: He brought to his P sf sitfon ripe journalistic experience. ,. keen humer. bright and versatile t;
 4 ents and a well balanced, discrimin:
 ing judgment. Personally he V - frank, honest and conscientious a
 a genial friend. To whatever DO s4t ton he. was called he carried w 'ya ,.n him the earnest and hearty wishes his welfare, prosrcrity and hap
 ness, of his former associates"
 In politics he was a democrat pl t- vious to. the Greeley campaign, l ain since then has heen a republican.
 of was a member of St. Marks lo6 Pa Of Masons of Newburyport.
 He was married Oct. -2s.- 1865.