Marker Erected by: The Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
Spoke in the oak grove of General William Pickering north of here in the presidential campaign of 1840. He was stumping Southern Illinois as a Whig elector for General William Henry Harrison in the Tippecanoe and Tyler Too campaign. In 1861 Lincoln appointed Pickering Governor of Washington Territory.
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