Pickering, William T., 1798-1873

found: NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for His Papers, 1863-1870(Pickering, William T., 1798-1873; Washington Territorial governor, 1862-1866)

found: Wash. Terr. donation land claims, 1980:p. 281 (Pickering, William; clerk, Columbia Co. Or., 1865; Governor, Wash. Terr. 1862-67, 1869)

found: LaWarne, C.P. Washington state, c1986(Territorial governors of Washington: William Pickering (R) 1862-1866)

found: Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) (website), viewed Aug. 8, 2022:Chalcraft-Pickering Family Papers, 1821-1954 (William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory from 1862 to 1866, was the grandfather of Alice Chalcraft. He was born March 15, 1797, in a small village in Yorkshire, in the North of England. He emigrated to North America in the 1820s, finally acquiring property and involving himself in various businesses in the area of Albion, Illinois, by the late 1820s. In the 1840s he was elected to the Illinois State Legislature, and in the later 1850s he attached himself to the political cause of Abraham Lincoln, who eventually was to appointed Pickering as Governor of Washington Territory. Pickering lived with his son Richard at Albion in later years. He died at Albion in 1873.) - https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv92000