Family:Loring Pickering and Caroline Doolittle (1)

O.P. Allen, p. 24-25: "They resided in Winchester, N.H., until the Spring of 1837, when they removed to St. Louis; shortly after, on account of the illness of their only child, a son, they removed to Hennepin, Ill., where the child died. Mr. Pickering was appointed postmater at Hennepin. There he entered upon the business of journalism in wich he has since been so successful. In 1845 he went back to St. Louis where he established the St. Louis Union. But in 1848 when the gold fever broke out, he started with his wife and a store of provisions across the plains with wagons drrwan by oxen. They were five months on the journey and entered Californao Oct. 28, 1848. After a brief residence in several places, they finally settled in San Francisco in 1852. There he established "The Moring Call" and "Daily Evening Bulletin," of which papers he is the senio partner. He has been a very successful man and today is accounted a millionaire. Mrs. Pickering spent some five years in Europe. She possessed rare qualities of mind and hearth, and at the time of her death which occurred at San Francisco June 18, 1879, she was universally lamented. She left no children; as before her only child, Guliver Verplank, died young. Mr. Pickering has since married and still enjoys ripe old age."

1. ↑ Dascola, Phil
   http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=philsged&id=I000553.