Harlan C. Pearson (1872-1943) was born in Webster, New Hampshire, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1893 and was later given an honorary A.M. degree in 1926. The month after he graduated in 1893 he joined the staff of the Concord Evening Monitor, and he remained involved with the newspaper until his death. He married Laura P. Pearson (b. Metcalf) in Concord in 1896. Pearson was the Concord correspondent for the Boston Globe, and for three years he was the editor and publisher of the Granite Monthly. From 1893 to 1894 he served as private secretary to Senator William E. Chandler; he also served as research secretary for twelve governors of New Hampshire. From 1921 to 1922 he was Deputy Secretary of State. During the early 1900s Mary Baker Eddy and her secretary, Calvin A. Frye, corresponded with Pearson, who was a local representative of the Associated Press and occasionally reported on Eddy. Pearson was a member of the Universalist Church in Concord, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the Concord Chamber of Commerce.

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