From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 264  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


EDWIN H. PICKETT was born in New York city in 1804. His grandfather was an 
officer in the English army. The latter's son, Albert, the father of Edwin, was 
principal of the Manhattan School in New York city. The family removed to 
Wheeling in 1819. Prof. Pickett taught a private school for a year and did much 
to advance the educational interests of the place. He removed to Cincinnati and 
became connected with the city schools for several years. He died in Delaware 
county, Ohio, at the age of eighty-four. His wife was Esther Hull, a niece of 
Gen. Hull. Our subject left Wheeling in 1832. He removed to Marshall county in 
1856, where he farmed till 1875, when he returned to the city. He was married in 
1829, to Clementine, daughter of Dr. Jonas Crumbacker, a druggist of Wheeling. 
and celebrated his golden wedding on the 15th of January, 1879. They had a 
family of ten children, eight of whom are still living, and the old couple now 
reside with their sons, John C. and Wilbert G. Pickett, grocers, No. 3320-2 
Jacob street.