Forest County History

Poland Hunter & Jane Simpson  Cemetery Markers for David and Andrew Hunter, Old Methodist Cemetery, Tionesta, Forest, PA The Hunter families of Northwestern Pennsylvania are of Scotch-Irish ancestry, a hardy race in which the Scotch stability, shrewdness, mental vigor and physical energy are blended with the geniality, warmheartedness, ambitions and versatile genius of the Irish. … 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

  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

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

Forest County Chapter V  POLITICAL HISTORY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LITTLE ORIGINAL COUNTY OF FOREST – THE JOINT RESOLUTION – JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNMENT UP TO 1856 – BIRTH OF THE GREATER FOREST COUNTY, 1866 – LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1800 TO 1866 – 0FFICERS OF VENANGO COUNTY PRIOR TO 1866 – ELECTIONS FROM 1856 TO … Read more

Forest County Chapter VI  MILITARY HISTORY   SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812 AND MEXICAN WAR – FOREST COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR – FIRST COMPANY ORGANIZED – EIGHTYTHIRD REGIMENT, P.V.I. – THIRTY-NINTH, P.V.I. – FORTIETH, P.V.I. – ONE HUXDRED AND FIFTIETH, P.V.I. – ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD, P.V.I. – ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH, … Read more

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

History of Cook Forest  Cook Forest is the most important tract of virgin timberland to be found in Pennsylvania, and is without rival for size east of the Rockies. The towering pines and hemlocks measure three and four feet in diameter, an occasional giant being five feet through the bole. They rise high in the … Read more

 Forest County History Project The Forest County History Project is committed to the transcription of the history of Forest County from the book  History of the Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania published by J.H. Beers & Co in 1890.     Chapter I – Topography and Natural History     Chapter II – Indians and … Read more

Revolutionary War Veterans John Range ~ 5 April 1778 commissioned lieutenant 5th Company, 4th Battalion, York County, Pennsylvania. Received land grant for service of 258 acres from Tubbs Run to Tionesta Creek. (Present day Tionesta) It is not believed he served in the French and Indian Wars as stated in the History of Forest County, … Read more