Josiah S. Pearce

President of Merion Title and Trust Company; born in Lower Merion Townshiр, Montgomery County, Pa., Nov. 10, 1841. He was educated in Lower Merion public schools. He married, in October, 1868, Alice A. Rambo. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1881-1882; justice of the peace, deputy coroner, first lieutenant of Battery L, Second Pennsylvania Artillery; president Merion Title and Trust Company; director in Bryn Mawr National Bank and Montgomery Insurance Company; president of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and National Funeral Directors' Associations for two years each. He is a Republican in politics. Address: Ardmore, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 510.

Submitted by Nancy.