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Dr. Simeon H. Pearse was born in Allegany county, New York, in 1830, being the oldest of a family of three sons and three daughters, born to Benjamin H. and Mary (Heath) Pearse, natives respectively of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Dr. Pearse was raised in the county of his nativity and secured a fair education, completing his academic course and securing a State teachers’ license at the age of twenty-one. He obtained the means to enable him to pursue the study of medicine by teaching. He graduated in 1854 from the Castleton (Vt.) Medical College. He practiced his profession in Onondaga and Allegany counties for four years, and spent one winter in Bellevue Hospital, New York. He then came to Mt. Vernon, where he remained till the year 1896, when he returned to New York. In 1855 he was married to Lucy A. Abbott, in his native county. They had two children, Eliza M. and Warren M. The doctor in politics was a Democrat and fraternally a Mason. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the Mt. Vernon public school board from 1868 to 1878, with the exception of two years. He died in 1896, shortly after his return to his old home in New York.