Benjamin Pickman (1763-1843)
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts & Member of the State Senate
He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and was educated at Dummer Academy and Harvard College (1784). He was the first President of the Salem National Bank and the Representative from Salem to the General Court. He was elected a State Senator (1802-05); Member of the Governor's Council; the second President of the Essex Historical Society; Overseer of Harvard College (1810-1817); President of the Board of Theological Directors in Cambridge; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 1789, he married Anstiss, daughter of the merchant prince Elias Hasket Derby. They were the parents of ten children of whom six (listed) lived to adulthood. The family lived in the Derby-Pickman Mansion on Essex Street in Salem that was built in 1750 and was bought by Pickman's father-in-law as a present for Mrs Anstiss Pickman.
