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Walter Beverly Pearson (December 2, 1861 - May 19, 1917) was an American inventor, industrialist and president of the Standard Screw Company. It became known as Stanadyne Automotive Corporation.〔 He is believed to have been an unacknowledged great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, as he was a descendant of their son Eston Hemings.〔(Brodie, Fawn, "Thomas Jefferson's Unknown Grandchildren" ), ''American Heritage Magazine'', October 1976〕〔Leary, Helen F.M., "Sally Hemings's Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly,'' Vol. 89, No. 3, September 2001, p. 172〕 ==Early life and education== Walter Pearson was born in Madison, Wisconsin during the American Civil War to Anna Wayles Hemings Jefferson (1836-1866) and her husband Albert T. Pearson (1829-1908) of New York state. Anna was a native of Virginia and the only surviving daughter of Eston Hemings Jefferson and his wife Julia Ann Isaacs. Albert worked as a carpenter in Madison; he served as a captain in the Union Army during the war. Walter had an older brother Fred and an older sister Julia. Their mother died prematurely, at the age of 30, when Walter was just four years old. The three children were educated in public schools. Pearson's maternal grandfather Eston Hemings Jefferson was born into slavery at Monticello. Seven-eighths European in ancestry, he was legally white under Virginia law and freed in 1826 by the will of his master (and father) Thomas Jefferson. Julia Ann Isaacs, a free woman of color, was of African, European-American and German-Jewish descent. They moved their family from Ohio to Wisconsin in 1852 for added security after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Although all their family was free, slave catchers often kidnapped and enslaved free blacks in those years, as well as capturing fugitive slaves.〔〔(Carol Wilson, ''Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865'' ), University of Kentucky Press, 1994. The historian Carol Wilson documented 300 such cases in her book, and noted there were likely thousands more.〕 In 1852 the Hemings family had changed their surname to Jefferson and entered the white community in Madison, Wisconsin. Anna Jefferson was 16 that year.〔Justus, Judith, ''Down from the Mountain: The Oral History of the Hemings Family'' Lesher Printers, Inc., 1999, pp. 90 - 96〕 Both Anna and her brother Beverly Jefferson married white spouses, and all their descendants have identified as white. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Beverly Pearson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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