Month: August 2025

Forest County Chapter IV  COURTS AND BAR FIRST COURT HELD IN FOREST COUNTY, 1857 – PROCEEDINGS FROM 1857 TO 1860 FIRST COURT HELD AT TIONESTA, 1867 – ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR FROM 1857 TO 1889 – FOREST BAR ASSOCIATION – IMPORTANT CIVIL AND CRIMMINAL CASES – DESPERADOES. THE first court of Forest county was held … Read more

Forest County Chapter II  INDIANS AND PIONEERS INTRODUCTORY – INDIAN HISTORY A CENTURY AGO – DAVID ZEISBERGER – INDIAN LEGEND – INDIAN WARFARE – THE PIONEERS-SAMUEL D. IRWIN’S ACCOUNT OF THEM – SOME FIRST THINGS – CYRUS BLOOD AND OTHERS –  EARLY COAL MINES, MILLS, ETC. – DANIEL HARRINGTON AND HIS EXPERIENCES – REMINISCENCES OF … Read more

  Orion Siggins ORION SIGGINS, dealer in real estate and lumber, West Hickory, was born in what is now Harmony township, Forest Co., Penn., June 3, 1848, and is a son of George S. and Rachel (Dawson) Siggins. His paternal grandfather was George Siggins, whose wife was Jane Young, a descendant of the great British … Read more

  Zach T. Shriver ZACH T. SHRIVER, driller, Tionesta, was born in Tionesta, April 18, 1850, and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Range) Shriver. His father, who was a native of Gettysburg, Penn., and a cabinet maker by trade, also following carpenter work for some time, was among the early settlers of Tionesta, … Read more

Forest County History  Formation of Forest County Forest County is the only county in the state of Pennsylvania created by a joint resolution of the Legislature. Approved on 11 April 1848, this resolution detached Forest County from Jefferson and Elk Counties. In April 1850 the Legislature fixed the southern boundary of the county at the … Read more

Forest County Chapter IX  TIONESTA TOWNSHIP – BOROUGH OF TIONESTA   TIONESTA TOWNSHIP – GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY – AN UNFATHOMIABLE PIT – POPULATION – THE TOWNSHIP’S HISTORIC BEGINNINGS – OFFICERS ELECTED IN 1889. BOROUGH OF TIONESTA – GENERAL DESCRIPTION  -ICE FLOODS, ETC. – DEED TO SHOLASS RANGE – FIRST SETTLERS – BUSINESS, ETC. – IMPROVEMENTS – … Read more

Forest County Chapter VIII  RAILROADS   MEETING IN 1867 – LAMENTATION RAILROAD – PENNSYLYANIA PETROLEUM RAILROAD COMPANY – FOXBURG & ST. PETERSBURG RAILROAD COMPANY – FOXBURG, KANE &; BRADFORD RAILROAD COMPANY – TIONESTA VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY – PITTSBURGH, BRADFORD & BUFFALO NARROW GAUGE – MISCELLANEOUS. THE railroad meeting of April 9, 1867, was presided over … Read more

Forest County Chapter VII  JOURNALISM – PHYSICIANS   JOURNALISM – THE FOREST PRESS – THE FOREST COUNTY BEE – THE FOREST REPUBLICAN – THE FAGUNDAS CITY PRESS – THE COMMONWEALTH – THE DEMOCRATIC VINDICATOR – THE NATIONAL DEMOCRAT PHYSICIANS – PIONEER DOCTORS – LIST OF PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT OF 1881 JOURNALISM. … Read more

  James Henderson JAMES HENDERSON, merchant, farmer and lumberman, East Hickory, was born in Venango county, Penn., in April, 1835, and is a son of Joseph and Martha (Dumas) Henderson, natives of Pennsylvania, and pioneers of Venango county. James Henderson was reared in his native county, where he received a limited common-school education, and in … Read more

  N. S. Foreman N. S. FOREMAN, lumberman, Tionesta, was born in the western part of Armstrong county, Penn., November 17, 1841, and is a son of James and A. M. (Carner) Foreman. He was reared in his native county, and received a common-school education. In 1865 he moved to Hickory township, Forest county, where … Read more