Forest County History

Forest County Chapter XIV  KINGSLEY TOWNSHIP   STREAMS – POPULATION – OFFICERS ELECTED IN FEBRUARY, 1890 – THE HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIP – LUMBER COMPANIES AND MILLS – VILLAGES, POST-OFFICE, INCIDENTS, ETC. KINGSLEY TOWNSHIP may be credited as the birthplace of the classic Tionesta. This river enters the township at the northeast corner, and flows … Read more

Forest County Chapter XV  Biographical Sketches Tionesta Township and Borough of Tionesta Hickory and Harmony Township     Tionesta Township and Borough of Tionesta Agnew, Joshua B Agnew, Leonard Arner, Calvin M Ball, J. Wesley Blocher, Peter C Bovard, George W Brennan, James T Brownell, O. C. Clark, Captain C. W. Clark, Daniel W Clark, … Read more

  Joshua B. Agnew JOSHUA B. AGNEW was born in Clarion county, Penn., May 24, 1840. His father, John Agnew, came of that sturdy Scotch-Irish family of Agnew’s, well known in this State, and was born in Centre (now Blair) county, Penn., in the year 1800. His mother was born in Lancaster county, this State, … Read more

  Charles Albaugh CHARLES ALBAUGH, farmer, P. O. East Hickory, was born in Allegany county, N. Y., October 15, 1830, and is a son of John P. and Margaret S. (Schenck) Albaugh, who in 1853 settled in Hickory township, where they lived and died. Charles Albaugh cleared and improved the farm he now occupies, on … Read more

  Jonathan Albaugh JONATHAN ALBAUGH, farmer, P. O. West Hickory, was born in Jackson township, Venango Co., Penn., April 22, 1844, and is a son of John P. and Margaret S. (Schenck) Albaugh, who settled in Hickory township in 1853 on the farm now occupied by their son Jonathan, a part of which they cleared, … Read more

  William Albaugh WILLIAM ALBAUGH, farmer, P. O. East Hickory, was born in Jackson township, Venango Co., Penn., January 13, 1837, and is a son of John P. and Margaret S. (Schenck) Albaugh, who settled in Hickory township in 1853. William was reared in his native township until he was sixteen years of age, and … Read more

  Calvin M. Arner CALVIN M. ARNER, prothonotary, register and recorder, Tionesta, was born in Armstrong county, Penn., October 3, 1847, and is a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Wolf) Arner, who settled in Tionesta in 1856, where the father engaged in lumbering and, with the exception of nine years, has always resided. In 1884, … Read more

  J. Wesley Ball J. WESLEY BALL, merchant, Tionesta, was born in Hickory township, Forest Co., Penn., July 20, 1852, and is a son of Nelson G. and Martha (Hunter) Ball. His paternal grandparents were Isaac and Sally (Munross) Ball, pioneers of what is now Harmony township, this county, and later of Balltown and East … Read more

  Nelson G. Ball NELSON G. BALL, farmer, P. O. Pit Hole City, Venango Co., Penn., was born in what is now Hickory township, Forest Co., Penn., April 28, 1832, and is a son of Isaac and Sally (Manross) Ball, natives of Vermont, and among the pioneers of what is now Forest county, locating first … Read more

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 air, clean, straight, sometimes … Read more