WICKERHAM, ALBERT G. AND ALEXANDER WILSON are leading representative native- born agriculturists of the county. Their father, William Wickerham, was a son of Adam, who was a son of Peter or Jacob, a native of Germany, who immigrated to America at a very early day, making a settlement in Westmoreland county, Penn. He married a Miss Schilling, and the children born to them were Peter, Jacob and Adam. The father of this family was a pioneer farmer of the State, and became renowned for his exploits with the Indians. He died at an extreme old age. Adam Wickerham, son of Peter (or Jacob) Wickerham was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., whence when a young man he came to Washington county, where he patented a tract of land on part of which Monongahela now stands. He there married Miss Shillen, who bore him the following named children: George, Peter, William, Mary and Sarah (Mrs. Bowsman). The father of this family departed this life in 1870, the mother a few years later.
William Wickerham was a native of Washington county, born in 1809 on a farm whereon Monongahela now stands. He married Nancy Phillips, a native of this county, and, after a few years' residence in the then village of Williamsport, he removed to Carroll township, settling on a farm in the horseshoe bend of the Monongahela river. Here he and his wife passed the rest of their days. He was a stanch Whig, afterward a Republican, and at the time of the Civil war, although well advanced in years, shouldered his musket in defense of the Union, being one of the one hundred-day men. In religion he was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Church. His children were as follows: Adam, David, James, Eliza, Harrison, Margaret, Albert G., Emma, Alexander Wilson and John; of these, Adam is a resident of Carroll township, on the old home farm; Harrison, Albert and John also live in Carroll township; Mrs. Eliza Grant is a widow living in Monongahela; Mrs. Margaret Teeple is in Carroll township; Adam, James and Harrison were in the Civil war, serving three years each, Harrison being the first volunteer to go to the front from Washington county; he was captured by the Confederates and confined in Andersonville prison thirteen months.
ALBERT G. WICKERHAM was born January 19, 1844, on the old homestead in that part of Carroll township, Washington Co., Penn., known as "The Horseshoe." He remained on the home farm until 1871, when he was united in marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of William Galbraith, a resident of Carroll township. Mr. and Mrs. Wickerham resided on the old place about two years after their marriage, when he erected the house where they have since resided, on a portion of the old estate. Mrs. Wickerham died in June, 1890, and was buried in the family cemetery. She left three children, namely: Mary J., William J. and Nancy A. Mr. Wickerham owns eighty acres of the old farm, and conducts a profitable business. Politically he is a Republican, and has held local offices.
ALEXANDER WILSON WICKERHAM was born December 20, 1852, and was reared on the home farm in Carroll township until thirteen years of age, when he moved to Monongahela. On April 17, 1871, he married Rebecca, daughter of John Marshall, of a very old and highly respected family of Washington county, and after marriage he conducted his father's farm for several years. He then removed to his present home in East Bethlehem township, the farm containing some seventy acres of prime land. He is a Republican, but not active in politics. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wickerham are Sarah, Eudora Della, Archibald, May, Florence, Myrtle and Lizzie, all at home with their parents.
Text taken from page 1444 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).Transcribed January 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project.
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