Zebulon "Zeb" Pearce, born February 4, 1877, and died March 10, 1969, was a leading participant throughout 90 years of central Arizona history. He graduated from Tempe Normal in 1899 and later became a teacher, the Mayor of Mesa, a city councilman, business leader, civil servant, charitable giver, family man, and friend. In 1911, he acquired a produce and feed business. At the end of Prohibition in 1933, the Coors Brewing Company awarded him the first Coors distributorship outside Colorado because of the cold storage he had added for the produce business.