biography
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| (?1776–1846)
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| biography:
| Linguist, philologist, and attorney, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, the son of Timothy Pickering. He graduated from Harvard (1796) and spent several years in Europe with the United States Diplomatic Corps. After returning to Masssachusetts, he practised law and served in the state senate. He wrote many books and articles on language, including the first collection of American word usages (1816) and a Greek-English dictionary (1826, 1st edn). He was also a leading authority on the languages of North American Indians. |
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