J. J. Roberts (R.) were chosen auditors, and N. W. Abbey (R.), J. G. Boyer (D.) and W. J. Colegrove (R.), commissioners.

In 1879 N. C. Gallup (R.) and O. P. Coon (D.) were elected jury com

missioners.

In 1880* the presidential vote was 3,693 (Garfield) Republican, 3,169 (Hancock) Democratic, 16 (Dow) Prohibition, and 299 (Weaver) Greenback; Lewis Emery, Jr. (R.), received 4,233 votes for senator, and Arthur J. Hughes (D.) 2,768; David Kirk (D.) received 3,591 votes, and R. J. C. Walker (R.) 3,541 votes for congress; W. L. Hardison (R.) 3,591 for representative, and E. M. Reardon (D.) 3,307; John W. Brennan (D.) received 3,712 votes for treasurer and was elected; G. H. Lyon (R.) was chosen surveyor, and Anthony F. Bannon (R), coroner.

In 1881 Henry W. Williams (R.) was elected president judge; P. M. Fuller (R.) and Henry Hamlin (R.), associate judges; A. I. Wilcox (R.), sheriff; John B. Brawley (D.), re-elected prothonotary; Edward McSweeney (D.), district attorney; W. H. Higgins (D.) and A. P. Brewer (R.), auditors.

The elections of 1882 show a majority for M. F. Elliott (D.) for congressat-large; almost a unanimous vote was recorded for Arthur G. Olmsted (R.), additional law judge; 2,464 votes for W. W. Brown, Republican candidate for congress; David Sterrett (R.) received 2,294 votes, and B. D. Hamlin (D.) 2,277 for representative; E. F. Clark (R.) and D. F. Pattison (D.) were chosen jury commissioners.

In 1883 Charles C. Melvin (D.) was elected treasurer, defeating John R. Shoemaker (R.) by 120 votes; John King (R.) was elected surveyor, and R. A. Dempsey (R.), coroner.

*Thomas L. Kane was a member of the Republican National Convention in 1880, and voted thirty-six times in that assembly for Grant's nomination.

In 1885 D. Martin and M. S. Sheldon were elected jury commissioners.

The vote of June 18, 1889, on the Prohibitory Amendment, was 3,054 for, and 2,058 contra, showing a majority of 996, the vote by political divisions. being as follows:

*The district vote was 5,091 and 4,248, respectively.

Philo Ackley (D.)..

2,907

A. W. Newell (Pro.)..

418

W. D. Murray (U. L.).....

325

JURY COMMISSIONERS.

George Hyde (R.)....

M. S. Sheldon (D.).

4,041

2,882

411

365

The official canvass of votes cast in McKean county general election held November 5, 1889, was as follows: For State treasurer: Boyer (R.), 2,661; Bigler (D.), 1,685 and Johnson, 349. For county treasurer: Capt. Rogers (R.), 2,467; Broder (D.), 2,037, and Cody, 278. For surveyor: Hadley, 2,424; King, 128, and Kane, 606. Mr. King was voted for in several of the precincts by personal friends, but positively declined to have his name printed on the tickets as a candidate for county surveyor.

The township and borough elections of February, 1890, are recorded in the pages of township and borough history.

CHAPTER VII.

MILITARY HISTORY.

FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT (BUCKTAILS)-COLONEL KANE-FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT, P. V. I.-EIGHTY-THIRD REGIMENT, P. V. I.—ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH REGIMENT, P. V. I.-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, P. V. I.-Two HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH REGIMENT, P. V. I.-MISCELLANEOUS.

FORTY-SECOND REGIMENT (BUCKTAILS).

The Rift Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps or Forty

HE Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves, changed in June, 1861,

second Pennsylvania Regiment, began organization a day before the telegraph flashed the tidings throughout the world of the breaking out of the Civil war. On April 13, 1861, Thomas L. Kane petitioned Gov. Curtin for leave to organize a command in the" Wild Cat District," known now as Forest, McKean, Elk, and Cameron counties. On the 14th the petition was granted, and the news being carried into the valleys and mountains, a company of one hundred men assembled on the Sinnemahoning, April 24, and entered on raft building, so that when the proposed regiment would be formed this method of transportation would be at their disposal. On April 26 three hundred and fifteen men marched onto three rafts then ready, and setting up a green hickory pole on one of them, the "flag ship," placed above it a bucktail, and from this floated. the flag of the Union.