George W. Pickering Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: PICKERING
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


Page 1226

       GEORGE W. PICKERING,* a respected citizen of the town of New-
ington, where he operates a farm of fourteen acres, and is also engaged in
carpenter work, is one of the town's officials, now serving in his first term as
selectman. He was born in Newington February I8, 1861, a son of Joseph
Ward and Sarah Q. (Foss) Pickering. The father, a native of Portsmouth,
was a sea-faring man to some extent. He was finely educated and worked as
accountant for some of the leading business firms of Portsmouth. His wife
was a native of Rye, N. H. Both are now deceased and are buried in New-
ington. They had three children, Hannah J., George W. and Joseph Ward.
       George W. Pickering was educated in the common schools. He was only
six years old when his father died and he began industrial life at the early 
age of nine as a farm boy, receiving his board and $1 per week. At the age
of eighteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for
about twenty years. During the last fifteen years or so he has been farming
on his own account, also doing carpenter work as he finds opportunity. A
republican in politics, he was elected to the office of selectman in March, 1914,
and has served also as registrar of voters in the town of Newington. He built
his present residence in 1892.
       Mr. Pickering was married in 1892 to Annie E. Cook, who was born in
New Jersey, a daughter of John and Julia (Nable) Cook, Her parents never
came to this section. They had six children, namely: Joseph, William, Rich-
ard, John, Jennie, and Annie E.  Mr. and Mrs. Pickering have two children,
Margaret and Joseph Warren. The family attend the Congregational church.

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