Bio of Picket, Benjamin (b.1828) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Picket, Benjamin, Plainview, farmer, was born in Pultney, Steuben county,
New York, August 11, 1828. His parents were Eli and Cuissan Ann Pickett.
His father was a native of the same county. When eighteen he accompanied
his brother, Eli C. Pickett, to Dodge county, Wisconsin. Here he continued
to reside with his brother until the spring of 1855, when he came to
Minnesota, and located on section 9, Plainview, eighty acres of which
claim now constitute the farm, on which he as since continued to reside.
He came in company with Mr. Washburn, Mr. Miner, and Mr. Jack Williams. In
1858 he went back to Wisconsin, and spent the winter; on his return in the
spring he brought back a three-year-old colt, which is now a hale old
horse of twenty-nine years. His next trip to Wisconsin was of a
matrimonial character, and resulted in his espousing Susanna Allen,
February 9, 1861. She was the daughter of Caleb Allen, a farmer and mason,
of Lowell, Dodge county, Wisconsin, now of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and was
born in Washington county, New York, November 17, 1842. The children of
this marriage are: Frank B., employed in Wyant's photograph gallery,
Plainview; Benjamin E. and Anna.