Old Time Tales of Warren County

OLD TIME TALES
OF
WARREN COUNTY

BY
ARCH BRISTOW
A COLLECTION OF THE PICTURESQUE AND
ROMANTIC LORE OF EARLY DAYS
IN WARREN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
PUBLISHED DECEMBER, 1932

• Credit
• The Past
• Forward
• How far back
• When Col. Drake Drove to Warren
• First Oil Well in Warren County
• Early Mention of Petroleum
• Petroleum in Days Before Drake
• Hauling Oil to Garland
• Warren County Oil Mine
• Warren Begins
• The First Church in Warren County
• Church Minutes
• Going to Church in 1845
• The Harmony Society
• Bits from the Brokenstraw Valley
• Early Justice at Red Hot
• The Great Sea Masts of Pine Valley
• Rafting on the Creeks
• A Dance on a Raft
• The Romance of the Rafts
• Old Rafting Chant
• Logging Bee in Pine Grove Township
• When Guy Irvine Slept in a Feather Bed
• The Knot Pine Raft of Guy Irvine
• When Guy Irvine Turned Preacher for a Day
• The Mystery of Whitehead Hill
• The Fitzpatick Murder
• River Pirates
• A Stolen Wedding Breakfast
• Nehemiah York
• Billy Ray
• Hannah Cooper's Birthday Snow
• Love apples
• A Barn Raising on Stillwater Creek
• Aunt Nancy Range
• Teddy Collins
• The Singing School
• The Old Songs
• Early Doctors
• Dr. Blodgett
• The Kansas House
• How Tidioute Got its Name
• The Pittsfield Riot
• A Paring Bee on Jackson Run
• A Christmas Dance Party Fifty Years Ago
• Skip to my Lou
• The Man Without a Cemetery
• Treating a Fever in 1815
• The Great June Frost of 1859
• The Keel Boatmen
• Pigeons
• Signs and Omens--Superstitions and beliefs
• Tales They Tell of Teddy Collins
• Ben Hogan
• The Cleopatra of The Oils Fields
• A Visit to Cornplanter in 1798
• The Day's Work
• Errata