Pickering, Alfred Jerome (Dr.)

Passed: 1936-04-17

Age: 61

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1936-04-24

Information: PHYSICIAN DIES IN HUNTINGTON - Dr. Alfred Jerome Pickering, 61 years old and a prominent Huntington physician, died Friday evening at his home there following a stroke of paralysis last fall from which he never recovered.  He was a native of Jackson county but had practiced his profession in Huntington for many years.  Dr. Pickering, a graduate pharmacist as well as a physician and surgeon, had a distinguished career not only in medicine but in the fields of education and Republican politics as well.  He was a school teacher in his early youth and later was postmaster at Grantsville, Calhoun county.  He practiced medicine in Huntington for nearly a quarter of a century.  He was born at Lone Cedar, Jackson county, January 9, 1875.  After obtaining a degree in pharmacy in 1897 he worked in a Ravenswood drug store for a time.  He obtained his M.D. degree in 1909.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Grantsville, the Royal Arch Masons at Pennsboro, Woodmen of the World and the Woodmen's Circle.  Surviving are his wife; a son by a former marriage; a sister; and four brothers, Dr. W. D. Pickering of Lone Cedar, J. M. Pickering of Belleville, Henry Pickering of Murraysville and J. T. Pickering of Wellsburg.  The body was taken to Grantsville Sunday where funeral services were held that afternoon and interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery there.