User:Purplebackpack89/Aquilla Pickering

Aquilla Pickering was a Chicago businessman. After a trip through the West and Mexico in 1886, in 1887 he led a group of Quakers to settle the town of Whittier, California. Pickering was head of the eponymous Pickering Land and Whittier Company, and served as Mayor of Whittier. As with other early prominent Whittierites, a street in Whittier is named for Pickering: Pickering Avenue, which traditionally has served as the western border of Uptown Whittier.

Category:American businessmen Category:American Quakers Category:People from Chicago Category:People from Whittier, California