Biography

07/11/1783 - 12/02/1842

PICKING, Christian Samuel, a Representative from Adams County; born, July 11, 1783 in York County, Pa.; merchant; unsuccessful campaign for commissioner, Adams County (1828); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1831-1832 term; reelected to the House for the 1836-1837 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1840 term; died, December 2, 1842 in Adams County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, York Springs, Adams County, Pennsylvania.