Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

JOHN G. PEARN, teacher, Ashland; was born in Beardstown, Cass
County, Oct.  3, 1855, son of William and Mary (Mutton) Pearn,
both natives of England, he being a farmer, and dead, she still
living; they had five children.  Our subject was educated at
Lincoln University and McKendree College.  March 30, 1880, he was
married to Miss Annie Cunningham, born in Lebanon, Illinois, in
1858, daughter of R. F. and Mary (Risley) Cunningham.  Mr. Pearn
has been teaching school six years.  He is an Odd Fellow and a
Republican.

Pearn Mutton Cunningham
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