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Note: BURIAL: Dorothy Burgess 1687

Partial inscription from original slate gravestone

DOROTHY BURGESS
AGED ABOUT
DYED
FEBRUARY
Ye 27
1687

Inscription from memorial plaque

DOROTHY
WIDOW OF
THOMAS BURGESS
DYED FEB Ye 27 1687
AGE NOT FOUND AT THE
TIME THIS STONE WAS
ERECTED IN 1917. FROM
BROKEN ORIGINAL BY
HER DESCENDANTS

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Phlen, Mary (b. MAY 1856, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Norwich, New London, Conn

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Phoebe, (b. ABT 1808, d. 17 SEP 1893)

Note: The Olean Democrat (Olean, New York) > 1893 > September > 19

Mrs Phoebe Scott, aged 84 years, died of old age Sunday at the home of her son Lewis Scott on the Haskell. The funeral was held this afternoon, Rev C V Wilson officiating. The internment was in the Portville cemetery.

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

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Pickett, Fayrene (b. 20 OCT 1882, d. 22 OCT 1937)

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Strawberry, Lawrence, Arkansas

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Strawberry, Lawrence, Arkansas

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Strawberry, Lawrence, Arkansas

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Picking, Barnot J (b. ABT 1871, d. AFT 1924)

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

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Picking, Catherine Amanda (b. ABT 1918, d. AFT 1962)

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

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Picking, Dorothy E (b. ABT 1911, d. AFT 1962)

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

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Picking, Florence (b. 26 MAY 1877, d. NOV 1966)

Note: Social Security Death Index
about Florence Picking
Name: Florence Picking
SSN: 182-36-3097
Last Residence: 15501 Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Born: 26 May 1877
Died: Nov 1966
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (1962 )

The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania) > 1966 > November > 14

Florence Picking

Somerset - Miss Florence M Picking, 89, of Somerset, died in a nursing home. A daughter of the late Jacob S and Maria Imhoff Picking, she leaves 12 nieces and nephews.

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

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Picking, Howard Milton (b. 01 SEP 1873, d. 1961)

Note: History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Chapter: Vol. one. Part II. Biographical history
Page: 430

Howard M Picking, well known funeral director of Johnstown, located at 429 Somerset Street, is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born in Somerset County, Sept. 1, 1873 and is the son of Jacob and Mariah (Imhoff) Picking.

Jacob Picking, who lives retired in Somerset County, has been identified with the business interests of that county for many years. He engaged in the mercantile business and conducted a hotel. To Mr. and Mrs. Picking the following children were born: B. J., lives in Johnstown, Howard M., the subject of this sketch; Joseph, a farmer, lives in Somerset County, Pa.; Marian, marred Curtis Grove, lives at Somerset, Pa.; and Robert, lives in Philadelphia.

Howard M Picking spent his boyhood in Somerset County and received his education in the public schools. He entered the employ of the Cambria Steel Company at an early age and remained there until 1909, when he engaged in the undertaking business in Johnstown. He also conducted a livery until 1920. Mr. Picking?s funeral home is modern in its appointments and he ranks among the reliable business men of the community.

On Dec. 8, 1897, Mr. Picking was united in marriage with Miss Mary M. Davis, a native of Somerset, Pa., born Dec 12, 1873, the daughter of Wesley W. and Lydia (Witt) Davis. Mr. Davis, a veteran of the Civil War, died May 28, 1897, and his wife died Oct. 8, 1894. They had three children: Harry B.; Mrs. Picking; and George, who died at the age of 14 years. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Picking, as follows: Mary Louise, born Feb 8, 1899; Madeline, born April 30, 1902; Lydia Adelaide, born Sept. 8, 1904, a trained nurse; Howard M., Jr., born March 17, 1908; and Ronald D., born Aug 24, 1910.

Politically, Mr. Picking is a Republican. He is a member fo the First Christian Church and is active in church affairs, being deacon and Sunday school superintendent. He is also affiliated with the Masonic Lodge.

Census: Date: 1900
Place: Johnstown Ward 5, Cambria, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Johnstown Ward 5, Cambria, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Johnstown Ward 5, Cambria, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania

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Picking, Howard Milton (b. 17 MAR 1908, d. 25 DEC 1993)

Note: Social Security Death Index
about Howard M. Picking
Name: Howard M. Picking
SSN: 159-14-0073
Last Residence: 15905 Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Born: 17 Mar 1908
Died: 25 Dec 1993
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951 )

Johnstown Pennsylvania, By Randy Whittle

The Greater Johnstown Committee (GJC)

After World War II, community betterment organizations made up of uniquely influential leaders were created in some major cities. Their memberships were limited to chief executives and senior partners of the larger, more prestigious corporations and professional firms, oftentimes labor bosses and other important people. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development had helped bring about Pittsburgh?s postwar ?renaissance.? In 1954 the Tribuen-Democrat had editorially urged the creation of a similar group in Johnstown to overcome a general malaise that perceptive citizens sensed had enveloped the community.

In 1959 such an organization was started in Johnstown ? the Greater Johnstown Committee (GJC). Its chief organizer was Howard ?Pick? Picking Jr., a tireless Johnstown booster. Picking had been a funeral director who changed careers in 1945 when he took a position with the Johnstown Savings Bank. In 1957 he became the bank?s president.

In April 1959, around the same time as the Penelec headquarters announcement, Picking began assembling a nucleus of top Johnstown leaders into a new organization. Among many others they included Leonard Black of Glosser Brothers, Jack Crichton, George Greene, Owen Griffith, Fesler Edwards, Frank Pasquerilla, Frank Phillips, Charles Kunkle Jr. and Alvin Shrott.

Picking had a belief that the chamber of commerce, trying to be ?all things to all people? as he stated had become ineffective. Earlier he had been chamber vice-president and felt some bitterness when not chosen as next president. Picking believed he was passed over because everyone knew he would have shaken things up.

The petty fiefdoms that seemed to abound at city hall disgusted Picking, who would characterize their essence as self0service, not community improvement.

Picking identified, cultivated and worked at being on good terms with all sources of power and influence ? political and labor leaders and those with money, brains and general prestige. He often arranged for two people he respected to work separately on an issue with neither knowing the other was doing the same thing. He then compared their efforts, selecting what he liked.

Picking would nitpick endlessly until things were the way he wanted them A poor public speaker, he was nonetheless effective in small groups. He was often harsh toward opposition unless that opposition represented power, in which case her would work around it.

Picking had been in touch with Bill Boucher and Jeff Miller, respectively staff director and chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee. The GJC in Johnstown was modeled in microcosm after the larger, very effective Baltimore organization.

By early October the GJC had been formed. Its first chairman was Louis Roddis, Penelec?s president and CEO. The choice of Roddis served to highlight a goal ? the successful completion of the Penelec headquarters project. The top leaders of Johnstown would remain focused on Cambria City (both B-1 and B-2), Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way.

In mid-January 1960, the GJC hired its first executive director, Sinclair Powell, and ex-city manager and a former urban redevelopment executive director. Through the GJC, ?establishment? leaders would be reaching out to the city government and to the other municipalities in the urban area offering expertise to help define and implement a community improvement agenda. The GJC would focus on business and government issues.

There was criticism over the creation of another civic group. Concern was expressed that the GJC might dry up the multipurpose chamber of commerce, which was broader in scope and had a much wider and larger membership because it was not limited to community heavyweights. The GJC vowed to avoid competition with other civic groups.

Occupation: Funeral Director

Occupation: Community Chest President
Date: 1943

Occupation: Chairman of the Johnstown Savings Bank
Date: 1975

Census: Date: 1910
Place: Johnstown Ward 5, Cambria, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1920
Place: Johnstown Ward 5, Cambria, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1930
Place: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania

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