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LINDLEY M. PICKERING, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Columbus, was born in Indiana 1835, son of Jonathan E., and grandson of Jacob Pickering, of Virginia. He received a high school education, and at the age of eighteen took charge of a store in Iowa, working as a salesman for fifteen years, in the meantime attending Bryant & Strattons Commercial College, at Chicago, from which he graduated in 1857. He spent one year in the South, handling stock, and one year buying and selling grain, and located on his present farm in 1868. Since locating in Kansas, he has been in the Government employ, as Superintendent of Farming for various tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, for five years. He is now devoting all his time to the improvement of his farm and the growing of stock. Mr. Pickering was employed by Mrs. Comstock and the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Industrial Institute for the Colored Race, as its Superintendent, in which capacity he served for two years. During this time, his farm had been in charge of his son, Clifton H. He was married to Susan Haskit, in Iowa, in 1859. They have three children— Clifton H., Ina R. and Jessie Fremont, aged respectively twenty-two, twenty and seventeen. They are members of the religious Society of Friends, and he is in politics a radical Republican.