Entries for the tag ‘Pearson, Zachariah (1821-91)’
Hull shipowner and reforming mayor, donor of the land for its first public park, bankrupted by the loss of ships attempting to buy cotton from the Confederate states during the American Civil War. 
- 24 September 1862: Having bet his shirt on blockade-running to the Confederates, Hull mayor Zachariah Pearson tells of his ruin by Lombard Street and Abraham Lincoln
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