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 1803 - 1877 (73 years)
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| Name |
Gilbert PEARSALL [1, 2] |
| Birth |
2 Sep 1803 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
20 Aug 1877 |
Hoopers Valley, NY  |
| Person ID |
I618 |
Wandering Pearsall |
| Last Modified |
9 Aug 2009 |
| Father |
Thomas PEARSALL, b. Mar 1752 d. 13 Oct 1826, Walnut Grove, Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Mother |
Phebe SUTTON, b. Aug 1769 d. 7 May 1810, Bainbridge, Chenango Co., New York (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Oct 1788 |
St George’s Church, Hempstead, Long Island, NY |
| Family ID |
F398 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- History of Nichols, NY
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A MEMORIAL HISOTRY OF TIOGA COUNTY
NEW YORK
EDITED BY: LEROY W. KINGMAN
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. ELMIRA, N. Y., 189?
The same is also true of the Hooper's valley region although here no special attempt at settlement and improvement was made previous to the time when, the Pearsalls came and by building mills and operating extensively in lumbering developed the land for farms and built up a settlement which has endured and been progressive to the present day
Thomas, Gilbert, and Nathaniel Pearsall were the real factors in developing the Hooper's Valley region, and were said to have made a beginning there as early as 1828, although soon after that time they were in the vicinity of Apalachin lumbering, milling, and otherwise developing the resources of the county. They came from Chenango county in 1828. Both Gilbert and Nathaniel died at Hooper's Valley, and Thomas at Owego. Thomas was perhaps the strongest business man of the brothers. He built the mills here. He was also prominent in connection with other enterprises, notably building the bridge across the river to connect Smithboro and the valley. Later he went south, but returned to Owego, where he died in 1881. After reverses had overtaken the Pearsall enterprises at the valley the hamlet they built suffered a serious loss in population and interests. However, the mills were bought by Mr. Higley and made into a carding and fulling mill, but were soon burned. In 1875, L. Burr Pearsall, son of Gilbert Pearsall, built a steam saw and planing mill at the valley hamlet.
Hooper's Valley was made a postoffice in 1854. Gilbert Pearsall was the first postmaster, and served in that capacity until 1861.
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- [S2] (H. S. Crocker, San Francisco 1928), Chapter 31 Section 2 Paqe 1142.
- [S29] Clarence Eugene Pearsall, The Pearsall Family, page 2173.
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