Photograph of William Pickering's telegraph to Abraham Lincoln, 1864.
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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...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Washington Territory. Governor (1862-1866 : Pickering)
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William T. Pickering was born in Yorkshire, England in 1798. He came to America in 1821 and settled in Edwards County, IL. He served in the Illinois legislature from 1842-1852. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln offered him the choice of being part of the United States Ministry in England or the governor of the Washington Territory. Pickering became the Governor of Washington Territory in 1862. He served until 1866. Gov. Pickering sent the first message over the transcontinental telegraph line. It was rec...
