Background
Pickering, Abner was born on July 11, 1854 in Wabash Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Hiram and Margaret (Jackson) Pickering.
Pickering, Abner was born on July 11, 1854 in Wabash Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Hiram and Margaret (Jackson) Pickering.
Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1878.
Commissioned Second lieutenant 2d Infantry, June 14, 1878. First lieutenant, February 27, 1887. Captain, August 8, 1897.
Major 22d Infantry, June 9, 1902.
Transferred to 1st Infantry, September 30, 1909. Lieutenant colonel 22d Infantry, February 23, 1910.
Translations to 9th Infantry, March 12, 1910. Colonel, March 30, 1912.
Assigned to 11th Infantry, May 12, 1913.
Served in the Northwest until 1898.
Married Celeste Florence Kuykendall, of Santa Rosa, California, May 13, 1879.