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About Us: Our History
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Our Founders:
Edward Pickering III (1910 - 1999)
Mr. Pickering was a graduate of the George School in 1929. He then studied Highway Engineering and Land Surveying through the International Correspondence School. Following his education, he was an apprentice surveyor with Charles Henry Moon, Civil Engineer.
In 1937, he became a registered land surveyor in Pennsylvania. Throughout the rest of his career, Mr. Pickering devoted his time to land surveying as a surveyor consultant to many juries of view. His role was to head the computation and drafting department. He was also the firm's representative in areas of land subdivision, municipal surveying, and land planning.
Mr. Pickering was associated with the predecessor firm, Edward Pickering, Jr., for many years. He was also a Life Member of the Bucks County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers.
Howard T. Corts (1917 - 1987)
Mr. Corts attended the International Correspondence School from 1935 to 1937, where he studied Highway Engineering, Land Surveying, and Mapping. Following his education, he served as an apprentice surveyor for six year with the predecessor firm under Edward Pickering, Jr. and became a registered Pennsylvania land surveyor in 1943.
He then worked full-time with predecessor firm under Edward Pickering, III for nine years until he moved onto become a partner of the firm in 1953.
Mr. Corts was responsible for heading the field surveying department from 1953 until his retirement in 1979. He was a Charter Member of the Bucks County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE), and was named Surveyor of the Year in 1978 by the PSPE. In addition, he was a member of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping.
Gerald J. Summerson (1923 - 1969)
Mr. Summerson was a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts in Civil Engineering. He also received an engineering education from Lafayette College, and was a graduate of the US Naval Construction Training Center in Davisville, Rhode Island.
Mr. Summerson became a partner in the firm in March of 1953. He headed the engineering design and municipal consulting departments of the firm.
Mr. Summerson was a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware. He was also a Charter Member and Past President of the Bucks County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers.
Timeline:
In 1918, Edward Pickering, Jr. embarked on a mission to provide land surveying services to communities in Bucks County, PA, founding the organization that will become Pickering, Corts & Summerson, Inc.
Registered surveyors Edward Pickering III and Howard T. Corts expanded the firm's services in 1953 by hiring professional engineer Gerald J. Summerson, forming the partnership known as Pickering, Corts & Summerson. The company focused on design and construction projects in the Bucks County region.
In 1962, Pickering, Corts & Summerson was chartered as a corporation with Edward Pickering III as the company's first President, Howard T. Corts as Vice President, and Gerald J. Summerson as Secretary/Treasurer.
In 1966, Pickering, Corts & Summerson, Inc. moved to Newtown Township, PA, following an opportunity for growth resulting from the design and construction of Interstate 95. Continued success allowed us to relocate to the heart of Newtown Borough in 1979.
An expanding list of regional clients motivated the opening of a second office in Hopewell Township, NJ in 1986. Our Company's growing reputation for providing quality design and inspection services in New Jersey increased our work load and allowed us to relocate in 1990 to a larger facility in Pennington, NJ. In 2007 our New Jersey office was relocated to West Trenton to better serve our clients.
We opened our third office in Plymouth Meeting, PA, northwest of Philadelphia, in 2000 to respond to the growing demand for services in the Chester and Montgomery County area.
After 26 years at our Newtown Borough location, PC&S moved its corporate headquarters to a larger facility on the outskirts of Newtown in 2002.
We continue to look towards the future and use the history of our successes to guide our growth.
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