Emily Clemens Pearson

Emily Clemens Pearson (1818–1900) was a 19th-century American writer of books primarily on the topic of slavery.

Biography

Person was born in Granby, Connecticut, in July 1818. Her parents were Allen and Catherine Stillman Clements. Her mother's family included Abraham Pierson, who was the first president of Yale. Her father was a founder of the lending library and the Granby Social Literary Society. It appears the marriage did not last because in the June 1880 census of Andover, Massachusetts, Emily was listed as a head of household three children living with her, and showed that Charles was married to someone else. She died on March 17, 1900, and was buried in Wildwood Cemetery in Winchester, Massachusetts. She continued to write, although with a gap of time during which she was mainly raising her children.