William Pickering letter to Capt. J. W. Stephenson [manuscript], 1862 July 26.

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William Pickering letter to Capt. J. W. Stephenson [manuscript], 1862 July 26.

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Letter, with typescript transcript, from William Pickering, Olympia, Washington Territory, to Capt. J. W. Stephenson, 4 pp, 26 July 1862, regarding his voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama and the politics of former Washington Territory Governor, L. Jay S. Turney.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Turney, L. Jay S.

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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...

Stephenson, J. W., Capt.

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