The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-29
DEATH OF LoR1NG PICKERING.
Pioneer Journalist of California
Passes Away.

A Pioneer Journalist of California
Passes Away.
| SAN Francisco, Dec. 2S.-Loring Pick
ering, proprietor of the N0rniag call of
this city, died at S:f5 this morning, after
an illness of several weeks, caused by a
complication of stomach and kidney
| troubles.
[Loring Pickering was born in Rich
mond, n. H., July 81, 1Sl2. In 1892
he started West, and for several years
was a clerk in Louisville, New Orleans,
in various towns in Illinois and in st.
Louis. In 1916, at the age of "a, he entered
the newspaper business in st. Louis,
! purchasing the Reporter and DESS0u1Tall
and subsequently establishing the St.
Louis Union.
j In 1919 he started with his wife. who
was at the time an invalid, across the
! plains for California. Here he spent a
/ few months IN the mines, but finally en-
gagged in the mercantile business at Min
/ erstOwn, mining camp situated where
ColiaX now stands.
| In the latter part of 1850 he purchased
an interest in the Placer Tin,cS, the pio-
neer paper of Sacramento. His partner
was Joseph Il. Lawrence, a young man
who had editorial charge of the paper for
some months previously, the owners be-
ing +. Gilbert IL Co. Of the 4 Hd CdLifoy-
Z bttN. Inc CHOl6Id 6DlletlllC OF lSOU made
| business very dull for the year following.
/ There were three daily papers then eX-
listing at Sacramento, and in June, 1851,
! the Times was consolidated with the
| II daSc1ipt. The latter was owned bv
George X. Fitch and Martin f. Grove.
and here began the long partnership of
{ Mr.. Pick ering and Mr.. Fitch.
/ In 1855 he became part owner and edi-
| tor of the 4 Jta CdiJ0rHia, which he soon
afterward sold to Frederick MacCrelish
| and went to Europe. lie resided three
| years in Paris and returned TO san Fran
cisco in the latter part of 1860.
/ In the following year he purchased an
interest in the EUeRiHg BULletin, which
/ his old partner, Fitch, was engaged i'm
! ing, in conjunction with Mr.. Fitch and
/ the late James w. Simonton, purchased
the Morning CdU.
Mr.. Pickering was married three times.
! His first wife, Caroline Esther, daughter
of Origen Doolittle, a descendant of one
of the oldest New England families, died
! nearly twelve years ago. His second
/ wife, Miss Margaret /. Crothers, died
/ few years after her marriage, while she
( and Mr.. Pickering were abroad. His
/ third wife was Miss Rose A. CrOthers
sister of the former, and by her he leaves
/ a son, now a little over four years old.
! The deceased was a member of the So
/ ciety of California Pioneers, a mem Der of
the Masonic fraternity, and Past Grand
I in the Odd Fellows.
During his life Mr.. Pickering filed
/ several responsible official positions In
/ 1S40 he received the appointment from
! Amos Kendall, = Postmaster-G Generai under
President Van Buren,, of Postmaster in a
town III Illinois. In ISIS he was elected a
director of the Bank of Missouri by the
State Legislature retaining that office
until he left for the State of California in
4 1919. In 1852 he was appointed one of the
Board of Commissioners, consisting of
I five members, to settle the State OF Cali
| fornia's interest in certain lands in San
/ Francisco, an Office he held until 1855