Pearmain, William Robert, 1888-1912

William Robert Pearmain (1888-1912) was a painter from Dublin, N.H.

The Pearmain family were neighbors of George de Forest Brush in Dublin, N.H., where many artists lived. Samuel Clemens was also a neighbor. Pearmain left Harvard after his first semester to study painting with Brush in Italy. He married Brushs' daughter, Nancy, in 1909, and returned to New York and became active in socialist causes, joining the I.W.W. and working in Pittsburgh, Pa. for the Westinghouse Electric Co. He died of leukemia in 1912. Nancy later married Dr. Harold Bowditch.

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