Margaret, Let's try the list for Renovo. Click on the underline. I will collect my sites a little better than what I did with Picture Rocks. Good Luck, Eldred Distance result <A HREF="http://www.indo.com/distance/distance-details.html">Distance</A> between Rochester, New York, United States and Picture Rocks, Pennsylvania, United States, as the crow flies:138 miles (223 km) (120 nautical miles) Initial heading from Rochester to Picture Rocks: south-southeast (160.1 degrees) Initial heading from Picture Rocks to Rochester:north-northwest (340.7 degrees) See <A HREF="http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/driveSilo.mb?AD2_street_1=&AD3_1=Rochester%2CNY&AD4_1=United+States&AD2_street_2=&AD3_2=Picture+Rocks%2CPA&AD4_2=United+States&req_action=getdir">driving distance and directions</A> (courtesy <A HREF="http://www.mapblast.com/">MapBlast</A>).See <A HREF="http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map/db=usa/ht=4.7216/wd=7.5545/color=1/mark=43.1687,-77.6158;41.2800,-76.7092/lat=42.2243/lon=-77.1625/">these places on the map</A> (courtesy <A HREF="http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/">Xerox PARC</A>). Rochester, New York, US County: Monroe County Location: 43:10:07N 77:36:57W Population (1990): 231636 Picture Rocks, Pennsylvania, US County: Lycoming County Location: 41:16:48N 76:42:33W Population (1990): 660 Elevation: 659 feet Distance result <A HREF="http://www.indo.com/distance/distance-details.html">Distance</A> between Rochester, New York, United States and Renovo, Pennsylvania, United States, as the crow flies:127 miles (205 km) (110 nautical miles) Initial heading from Rochester to Renovo:south (183.1 degrees) Initial heading from Renovo to Rochester:north (3.0 degrees) See <A HREF="http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/driveSilo.mb?AD2_street_1=&AD3_1=Rochester%2CNY&AD4_1=United+States&AD2_street_2=&AD3_2=Renovo%2CPA&AD4_2=United+States&req_action=getdir">driving distance and directions</A> (courtesy <A HREF="http://www.mapblast.com/">MapBlast</A>).See <A HREF="http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map/db=usa/ht=4.5988/wd=7.3581/color=1/mark=43.1687,-77.6158;41.3291,-77.7478/lat=42.2489/lon=-77.6818/">these places on the map</A> (courtesy <A HREF="http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/">Xerox PARC</A>). Rochester, New York, US County: Monroe County Location: 43:10:07N 77:36:57W Population (1990): 231636 Renovo, Pennsylvania, US County: Clinton County Location: 41:19:45N 77:44:52W Population (1990): 1526 Elevation: 668 feet Place County State Type Elevation USGS Quad Lat L <A HREF="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.32639&lon=-77.75111">Renovo</A> Clinton Pennsylvania town/city 668 feet Renovo West 41.326ºN 77.751ºW Cementary near Renovo Business Name Address City Phone Miles* <A HREF="http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&tuid=1882414&ck=2214322489&tab=B2C&city=Renovo&state=PA&country=us&slt=41.349899&sln=-77.766197&cs=5&stat=:pos:0:regular:regT:20:fbT:0">North Bend Cemetery</A> Old Route 120 North Bend, PA (570) 923-1958 3.3 RENOVO, PENNSYLVANIA -- PPL1 Feature records have been selected from GNIS. Feature Name: Renovo Feature Type: populated place Elevation: 668 Estimated Population (1994): 1,491 State: Pennsylvania County: Clinton Latitude Longitude USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map 411935N 0774504W Renovo West 411938N 0774445W Renovo East <A HREF="http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/MapServer?f_name=Renovo&f_state=PA&f_latlong=411935N0774504W&f_type=ppl&server=TIGER">Show Feature Location</A> using maps produced from the U.S. Census Bureau's Tiger Map Server.

Are you using mapblast to find this information? I have not seen it-just used mapquest in the past. Marge

PICTURE ROCKS, PENNSYLVANIA -- CLIFF1 Feature records have been selected from GNIS. Feature Name: Picture Rocks Feature Type: cliff Elevation: 700 State: Pennsylvania County: Lycoming USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Picture Rocks Latitude: 411647N Longitude: 0764230W PICTURE ROCKS, PENNSYLVANIA -- PPL1 Feature records have been selected from GNIS. Feature Name: Picture Rocks Feature Type: populated place Elevation: 659 Estimated Population (1994): 683 State: Pennsylvania County: Lycoming USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Picture Rocks Latitude: 411647N Longitude: 0764248W

Margaret, Sorry that I did not put all these together, but I brought them up from different sources: Here is another bit of data for you. You should be able to click on the underlined word, "Picture Rocks" and get a map of the location. Eldred Place County State Type Elevation USGS Quad Lat Lo <A HREF="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.27972&lon=-76.71333">Picture Rocks</A> Lycoming Pennsylvania town/city 659 feet Picture Rocks 41.280ºN 76.713ºW <A HREF="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.27972&lon=-76.70833">Picture Rocks</A> Lycoming Pennsylvania cliff 700 feet Picture Rocks 41.280ºN 76.708ºW

Margaret, A very little bit of information for you. Picture Rocks is very near Montoursville and Hughsville. Good luck, Eldred PA Municipal Population 1990, Lycoming Picture Rocks borough 660

Could someone tell me where Picture Rocks is in Lycoming County. What township. Thanks Margaret

Has any one heard of a place in Pennsylvania as: ??nova, Penna. Maybe Ranova, Lanova, Renova Margaret

Hi Margaret, My sister in law lives near Picture Rocks and it is very near Hughesville, just a little tiny town and very beautiful. Glenda Barnes -------Original Message------- From: PALYCOMI-L@rootsweb.com Date: 26 December, 2001 08:38:10 PM To: PALYCOMI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Picture Rocks Could someone tell me where Picture Rocks is in Lycoming County. What township. Thanks Margaret

Oops . . . sorry, its Renovo, not Renova (but is pronounced as though it ended with an "A"). -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Steen [mailto:maggies@rochester.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:02 PM To: PALYCOMI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: ??nova Has any one heard of a place in Pennsylvania as: ??nova, Penna. Maybe Ranova, Lanova, Renova Margaret

Could be Renovo, Clinton Co, PA?? -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Steen [mailto:maggies@rochester.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:02 PM To: PALYCOMI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: ??nova Has any one heard of a place in Pennsylvania as: ??nova, Penna. Maybe Ranova, Lanova, Renova Margaret

Kevin, In the biographical sketch of William K. Boal, that you contributed, you mention that George F. Boal was a graduate of Dickinson College of Pennsylvania. I assume that this was the Dickinson College that is now known as Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. Is this assumption correct? Best wishes, Eldred

Biographical Sketches and Stories of Miami County Ohio People, Places, and Things Pg. 516 WILLIAM K. BOAL It is the enterprise and character of the citizen that enriches and ennobles the common wealth. From individual enterprise has sprung all the splendor and importance of this great west. The greatest merchants have developed from the humblest origins. From clerkships have emerged men who have built great business enterprises. America is a self-made country, and those who have created it are self-made men. No influence of birth or fortune has favored the architects of her glory. Among those who have achieved prominence as men of marked ability and substantial worth in Piqua, the subject of this sketch, William K. Boal, occupies a prominent position. The unostentatious routine of private life, although of vast importance to the welfare of the community, has not figured to any great extent in the pages of history. But the names of men who have distinguished themselves by the possession of those qualities of character which mainly contribute to the success of private life and to the public stability and who have enjoyed the respect and confidence of those around them should not be permitted to perish. Their example is more valuable to the majority of readers than that of heroes, statesmen and writers, as they furnish means of subsistence for the multitude whom they in their useful careers have employed. Such are the thoughts that involuntarily come to our minds when we consider the life of him whose name initiates this sketch. William King Boal was born in Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1831. His father, James Boal, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and acquired his education in the Glasgow University. In connection with his father and brother he loaded a vessel, the Mary B., with merchandise and the two sons sailed with it to Philadelphia, where they disposed of the goods. James Boal remained in his native land and engaged in the importing business throughout his active career. William Boal built and sailed other vessels until the firm had seven engaged in the merchant trade. James Boal married Agnes Frederick, who was born in Muncy, Pennsylvania, in 1806. It was for her great-grandfather, Moses Frederick, that the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was named. George F. Boal, another brother of our subject, was graduated in Dickinson College of Pennsylvania, afterwards studied law and became a member of the legislature of the Keystone state. Another brother of our subject, James McLellan Boal, studied at Dickinson College and afterward removed to Minnesota. He was at once time the owner of the site on which the city of St. Paul now stands, and was a member of the first legislature of that state. After the death of his father, James Boal, in 1840, William K. Boal, of this review, removed with his mother to Greenup county, Kentucky, where his sisters, Mrs. James W. Allison and Mrs. William M. Patton, resided. On completing his education at the Inductive Seminary there, he afterward entered the office of the Iron Furnace Works, owned and controlled by his brother-in-law, William M. Patton. In this way he gained an excellent knowledge of the business with which he was afterward to become so actively connected. He served as bookkeeper and manager until 1855, when he accepted a position in a bank at Ashland, Kentucky, there remaining until 1863. In that year he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, he became a very extensive dealer in cotton and hemp. He also conducted a commission business, his annual sales amounting to more than a million, five hundred thousand dollars. In 1872 he purchased the stove foundry of W. C. Davis & Company. Under his management the business increased rapidly and he sold it to the Favorite Stove Company, but the new organization did not make a success of the enterprise, and in 1888 Mr. Boal organized the Favorite Stove & Range Company, securing the plant and business of the defunct Favorite Stove Company. The new corporation purchased land and established its foundry in Piqua, and since that time the business has steadily and constantly grown until it is now one of the largest of the kind in the United States. From an account of this mammoth business published in one of the local Piqua papers we quote freely, for certainly such a gigantic concern is deserving of particular mention in connection with the industrial activity of the city. For a number of years Piqua has enjoyed the reputation of having the most extensive manufacturing interests of any city of its size in the state, and chief among these is that conducted by the Favorite Stove & Range Company, whose extensive plant is located between Young and South streets. The officers are: W. K. Boal, president; Stanhope Boal, vice- president; and E. W. Lape, secretary and treasurer; while the board of directors is composed of W. K. Boal; Jacob Bettman, of Cincinnati; A. M. Orr; Adam Gray, of Cincinnati; and Stanhope Boal. Under the wise control and capable management of the president, this has become one of the leading stove and range manufactories of the United States. The plant was removed to Piqua from Cincinnati in the fall of 1888, and on the 25th of February, of the following year, began operation. Since that time its business has steadily and rapidly grown, and today the output of the factory is known throughout the United States. The line of goods manufactured is quite extensive, consisting of Favorite steel ranges, cast ranges and many kinds of cook stoves, all of which are made for different kinds of fuel, together with Favorite baseburners for hard coal, and all kinds of heating stoves in varied sizes. In addition they manufacture Favorite gas ranges and Favorite gas heaters for artificial and natural gas, and the Favorite Piqua hollow ware is one of their products. The plant has a capacity for turning out one thousand steel ranges, baseburners and other fine stoves each week, which is equivalent to three thousand stoves of the cheaper grades. In a single day twenty-eight tons of iron are used in making castings of the various stoves and ranges. When the company began operation in Piqua about eleven years ago, it had in its employ two hundred and seventy-five men, including the traveling salesmen. Today there are four hundred men employed at the plant, while the traveling salesmen and other representative's number fifty, and the weekly pay roll of the concern is enormous. In order to facilitate the trade and make quicker shipments branch offices have been established in New York, Chicago, St. Paul, Kansas City, Ottumwa, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan. At each of these branches a large stock of stoves and ranges are constantly kept on hand so that orders are filled promptly. The rapidly growing trade has necessitated the enlargement of the plant from year to year, and recently a new brick building, two hundred and seventy-five feet and two stories high, was erected. The buildings of the company now number fifteen and, although some are joined together, there are different departments in each. The entire depth of the buildings is fifteen hundred and thirty feet. The office building is located in front of the plant, and is very conveniently arranged, being handsomely furnished and supplied with everything that is required to conduct the extensive business, which the corporation enjoys. There are large warehouses and mounting departments in which many men are constantly engaged in setting up stoves and getting them ready for shipment; the cleaning shop, where the rough edges of the castings are taken off before they are sent to the mounting department; the moulding department, in which every piece that enters into a stove is cast, and in the center of this room is a large cupola where the iron is melted; in another building are the core ovens, where the cores for the gas ranges and hot plates are made. Another interesting building is the wood pattern department. It is here the designs for all of the new stoves are made. Every piece that enters into the construction of a stove is carefully carved from selected pine, and, after being made to fit perfectly, they are taken to the moulding department and iron patterns made from them. When those have served their purpose they are stored in fireproof buildings and are kept for future use. In this building the concern has every pattern that has ever been made for a stove, no matter how large or small, for they are liable to be needed at any time. There is also a nickel- plating department, and after the plating is done the pieces are carefully dried and then taken to the polishing room where they are brightened. There are storage rooms, and gas range, hollow ware, tin shop and odd plate departments, each being equipped with the latest and most improved machinery. The plant is operated with a two-hundred-horse-power Corliss engine and one one-hundred-horse- power Seely engine. There is also a dynamo in this room used for generating light for the entire plant, save for the nickeling department, which has its own dynamo. There are machine shops where various things are made for the different departments, and a Japanning house, coke and sand houses. Thus thoroughly equipped the Favorite Stove & Range plant has been the most extensive in the entire country, and its output finds its way to every state in the Union. While thoroughly a man of affairs whose competency to control extensive business interests has been manifested in the success of the enterprise with which he is now connected. Boal is in private life a genial, kindly gentleman who has won many friends. In 1855 he married Miss Eliza Naomi Van Bibber, the only child of Dr. James and Naomi Barton (White) Van Bibber. Her father was a very successful physician and the best-known citizen of Greenup county, Kentucky. He was also a cousin of Daniel Boone. His wife was a daughter of Naomi Barton, who was of English birth, and a cousin of Francis Scott Key, to whom, as the author of the Star Spangled Banner, the country will ever owe a debt of gratitude. Mr. and Mrs. Boal are the parents of seven children, namely: Stella; Nannie; Louise; Eliza Van Bibber, wife of A. M. Orr, of Piqua; Naomi, wife of George Wiedeman, of Newport, Kentucky; Ailine, and Stanhope. The son is associated with his father in business, and is vice-president of the Favorite Stove & Range Company, is president of the National Stove Manufacturers' Association, of the National Gas Stove Works Association and the Western Association of Stove Manufacturers. A man of fine physique, of affable manner and genial disposition, in business life he is highly regarded for his marked executive ability and the faithfulness with which he discharges the duties that devolve upon him through his connection with the various organizations of which he is the head. A most pleasant relationship exists between him and the employees of the foundry and a similar regard is shown his father, William K. Boal, who sustains a most enviable reputation in business circles. He is well known as a thoroughgoing businessman who conducts his affairs along systematic lines and requires absolute faithfulness on the part of his employees. At the same time they recognize that fidelity to duty is the stepping-stone to something higher, and that as opportunity offers he will reward their faithfulness by promotion. The humanitarian spirit of Mr. Boal was shown at the time of the great financial panic of 1873, when the company retained all their men, paying them regularly every Saturday, although the output the factory was very much diminished. Through his effort and those of capable associates he has built up one of the most extensive industrial pursuits in the country. The day of small undertakings, especially in cities, seems to have passed and the era of gigantic enterprises is upon us. In control of mammoth concerns are men of masterminds, of almost limitless ability to guide, of sound judgment and keen discrimination. Their progressiveness must not only reach the bounds that others have gained, but must even pass beyond into new and broader, untried fields of operation; but an unerring foresight and sagacity must make no mistake by venturing upon uncertain ground. Thus continually growing, a business takes leadership in its special line and the men who are at the head are deservedly eminent in the world of commerce, occupying a position, which commands the respect while it excites the admiration of all. Such a place does Mr. Boal now fill. Outside of his office he is known to be a man of genial disposition, courteous and companionable. He is highly esteemed by his brethren of the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows society, and is a leading member of the Episcopal church, in which he is now serving as vestryman. His home is one of the most elegant residences in Piqua, and stands as a monument to a life whose labors have been discerningly directed along lines that have brought to him handsome prosperity, and at the same time have gained for him that good name which is rather to be chosen than great riches. Kevin L. Sholder IT Services GWS Client Management Imaging and Software TL * 1529 Brown St., EMD-2, Dayton, OH 45479 * 937-445-6336 or VP: 622-6336 7 937-445-6867 * kevin.sholder@ncr.com There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) http://www.pages2send.com/miracle.htm

To All My Family and Friends, Christmas is almost here and I am busy. Being a Postal Worker does sometimes have its downfall. Usually we are as busy in January as we are in December. It has sure been an interesting 3 + months since the anthrax deal started. But I'm sure you all know the old saying "The mail must go through". Remember your letter carriers this year. We have worked through terrible times to bring you your mail. A greeting card is sufficient. Walt and I are both well and looking forward to the holidays, when we can spend time with family and friends. Hopefully the new year will bring less sickness to our families. It has been a tough 2001. We both send all of you our best wished for a great Christmas and a very Happy New Year. May you all find whatever you are searching for in the next 12 months. God Bless you all and have a safe, happy holiday season. Love, Elaine & Walt

Hello, Thanks for what you are doing, Very nice of you. My Great Great Grandmother was a Kelley from Lycoming County, Would you let me know what John W. Kelley, 468 Vol. 2 has to say about John? Also her daughter married a W. Persun 365 Vol 2. Thanks again, Dick reroot@aol.com

Kevin, I would really appreciate the abstract on the following: >Worthington, Alexander B., 76; Volume 2< Thanks so much, Kathy

Would appreciate an abstract on the following: > Ecroyd, The Family, 310; Volume 1 > Thank you, Sarah McCray

All, The index has been completed for the web and is located at: http://www.siscom.net/~rdrunner/HTML/GPHIST/index.html. Now I can start with the requests that I have received so far. I'll be doing them first come first serve, with about 25 people that have already responded. Thanks for your interest. Sincerely, Kevin L. Sholder rdrunner@siscom.net Don't wait to make your Son a great man. Make him a great boy. --Unknown http://www.siscom.net/~rdrunner/index.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rdrunner/index.htm kevin.sholder@ncr.com LOCATIONS THAT I AM RESEARCHING - Pennsylvania (Berks, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan, Northumberland Counties); Germany (Wüerttemberg). SURNAMES THAT I AM RESEARCHING - Aderhold; Alexander; Bower; Campbell; Carpenter; Cohick; DeRemer; Hafer; Heim; Horn; Kiess; Kinley; Lovell; Mahaffey; Marquardt; Marshall; Metzger; Paulhamus (Polhemius); Pepperman; Rentz; Robinson; Roller; Sholder (Scholderer); Smith; Springman; Stabler; Stoltz; Ulmer; Updegraff (Op den Graeff); Waltz (Walz); Wurster (Wurster Von Igelsberg) and their related family lines.

In a message dated 12/13/2001 11:37:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, KS100004@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com writes: << Parsons, The Family, 374; Volume 1 >> I would love an abstract on this part. Many thanks! Kathy Researching primarily N I C E L Y, B R O W N E L L, and M A Y N A R D families of Williamsport, PA but also N I C H O LS, P A R S O N S, E Y S T E R, O Y S T E R, K N E I S E L, F O X, and Mc W I L L I A M S of Lycoming and Northumberland counties of PA

I have Millers born in Pa. such as Zobina, Cornelius, Martha, Nancy, Margaret, Angeline, William, Martha, and Mary E. born in 1848. Zobina and Cornelius were brothers and Martha and Nancy were Zobina's children and the others were born to Cornelius. Cornelius was born in Luycoming Co. in 1813 and Zobina was born in 1823, their parents being Lawrence Miller with wife Mary. If you think this is any of your Millers I would be glad to share what I have. Marge

Were these Miller children born in PA? I have a Catherine Miller in my "tree," but my information says she was born in Germany, and, given that the name is so common, I've never found any parental information for her. Vicki