Benjamin Franklin Pearson was a Maryland native who settled in Iowa in 1835 after it was opened to settlement.

Ironically, it was rebuilt using brick from a place of worship known locally in those days as the "Negro Church", a structure that had been destroyed in the same storm.

The church was a landmark dating back to a time during Reconstruction and well into the 20th century when the black population of Keosauqua was sizable.

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