Chalcraft-Pickering Family Papers

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Chalcraft-Pickering Family Papers

1821-1954

https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv92000

The papers of Edwin Chalcraft consist primarily of diaries and an autobiography, , co-authored by Alice Chalcraft. The papers of William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory and father of Alice Chalcraft, are chiefly correspondence and legal documents. Memory's Storehouse

2 Linear feet of shelf space, (3 Boxes)

eng, Latn

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6381007

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Chalcraft, Edwin L.

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Edwin Chalcraft was an Indian agency teacher in Chehalis, Washington, Chemawa, Oregon, and other agencies in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Oregon. From the description of Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs, 1862-1941. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 42027041 From the description of Chalcraft/Pickering family papers, 1821-1954. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853369 Edwin L. Chalcraft was born near Albion, Illinois on November 11, 1855. H...

Pickering, William, 1796-1854

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William Pickering and his son Bernard Montagu Pickering were English publishers. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1827-1837. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190889535 Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x00013a ...

Chehalis Indians

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Chalcraft, Edwin, 1855-

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Edwin L. Chalcraft Edwin L. Chalcraft was born on November 13, 1855, on his father's farm near Albion, Illinois, where he lived until his marriage to Alice Pickering on October 13, 1880. The following summer, Edwin, a teacher in the Albion Public School and a county surveyor, and Alice also a school teacher, accepted the invitation of her brother William to visit him in "Squak Valley" (now Issaquah), thirteen miles east of Seattle. Originally they had planned...

Pickering, William T., 1798-1873

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Pickering, a native of England, settled in Albion, Illinois in the 1820s. He served in the Illinois state legislature (1842-1852). Lincoln appointed Pickering territorial governor of Washington in 1862. Pickering served until 1866. From the description of Telegram, September 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 304436193 William Pickering was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1798 and graduated from Oxford University in 1820. In 1821 he moved to Ill...