Governors of Washington, territorial and state . sty was one of Gov. Pickeringschief qualities. His last surviving son is RichardPickering, now 85 years of age and a highly re-spected citizen of Seattle. He says his father savedfrom his salary as governor $900 which he sentback home to Judge Mayo, of Illinois, to be paid toMr. Hanks, who had invested and lost in a railroadproject planned by Gen. Pickering. The governorwanted to live long enough to pay off every associates insisted that they only risked as hehimself had done, but he would hear none of that,and paid every dollar in fu
Governors of Washington, territorial and state . sty was one of Gov. Pickeringschief qualities. His last surviving son is RichardPickering, now 85 years of age and a highly re-spected citizen of Seattle. He says his father savedfrom his salary as governor $900 which he sentback home to Judge Mayo, of Illinois, to be paid toMr. Hanks, who had invested and lost in a railroadproject planned by Gen. Pickering. The governorwanted to live long enough to pay off every associates insisted that they only risked as hehimself had done, but he would hear none of that,and paid every dollar in full. Later the sons re-alized a few thousand dollars from equities in theold railroad right-of-way. The father was dead, butthe newspapers announced the fact that RichardPickering stood ready to pay any proved debt thathis father had left. The successor to the railroadenterprise that was so far ahead of its time thenis now known as the Air Line between St. Louisand Louisville. GEORGE E. COLE GEORGE E. COLE Sixth Territorial Governor 1866 to 1867. NO. VI.—GEORGE E. COLE George E. Cole was a forceful and typical pio-neer. He was born in Trenton, Oneida county, , December 23, 1826. He worked on a farm andgot enough education to embark in the work ofteaching district schools. This he continued untilthe lure of California gold and adventure drew himacross the plains in 1849. A companion on thisjourney was Phillip Ritz, for whom Ritzville, Adamscounty, was named. Not meeting with the desiredsuccess in California, the two embarked for theUmpqua river in 1850 and Cole soon became a legis-lator, farmer, trader and prominent pioneer of Ore-gon. As a legislator, he became chairman of the com-mittee that drew up the memorial to congress ask-ing for the creation of the Territory of Columbia,which, when being created, was renamed WashingtonTerritory. After serving a brief term as postmasterof Corvallis, he decided to move to Walla Walla toparticipate in the trade being developed by the
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