Warren and McKean counties, as well as in the manufacturing of lumber, being president of the Colwell Creek Lumber Company.

L. J. Hopkins, brother of H. J. Hopkins, was born in 1855. Moving to Kansas City, Mo., in 1878, he filled the position of salesman in a wholesale grocery house until 1880, when he returned to Pennsylvania, in order to enter the employ of Holeman & Hopkins, with whom he remained until the firm dissolved in 1883, he and Mr. Lanson then securing Mr. Holeman's interest in the business of Holeman & Hopkins, in Tionesta. L. J. Hopkins was married in September, 1885, to Miss Marie Jackson, of Tionesta, daughter of T. C. Jackson (deceased). In addition to his mercantile business, Mr. Hopkins is interested in the oil-producing industry in Venango county.

F. R. Lanson was born April 14, 1855, in Busti, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., and is a son of John and Anna Lanson, natives of Sweden, who came to this country in 1847. He began life as a clerk in the general store of C. T. Bordwell, of Bear Lake, Penn., and in 1878 entered the employ of Holeman & Hopkins, Pleasantville, in the same capacity, remaining with them until 1883, when they dissolved partnership, and the present firm was organized at Tionesta. Mr. Lanson was married April 12, 1883, to Miss Alice, daughter of Hon. J. A. Proper, of Tionesta. In addition to his mercantile business Mr. Lanson is interested in the oil-producing industry in Venango county.

CHARLES HUNTER, toll-keeper, Tionesta Bridge Company, Tionesta, was born in Tionesta, Forest Co., Penn., June 16, 1859, and is a son of George S. and Adaline (Scott) Hunter. His paternal grandparents were William and Sarah (Range) Hunter, former of whom was a son of Poland Hunter, a native of Ireland, who was among the first settlers of what is now Tionesta, and erected the first grist-mill in the limits of what is now Forest county, on the site of the present one erected by his son, William Hunter. His children were David, Andrew, John, William and Margaret (Mrs. Annanias Dustin). William Hunter followed the occupation of miller until his death; he was the father of sixteen children, of whom twelve grew to maturity: Jane (Mrs. William Siggins), John, Ann (Mrs. Jacob Range), William, Margaret (Mrs. Marvin Abbott), Sarah (Mrs. C. H. Church), George S., Martha (Mrs. Nelson G, Ball), James, Hannah (Mrs. Andrew McCray), Ellen (Mrs. John Alstand) and Moses. Of these George S. Hunter was reared in Tionesta, where he resided until his death, and was extensively engaged in lumbering, milling and general merchandise business. He developed considerable oil territory in Forest county, and for many years was the owner of the ferry between Tionesta and the depot, and was the projector and builder of the present substantial bridge across the Allegheny river at that point. By his wife, who was a daughter of John and Evaline (Brookmyer) Scott, of Franklin, Penn., he had six children: Edgar, Charles, Carrie (Mrs. Edward Sanner), William, John and Nellie. He died on April 8, 1885, at the age of sixty years. His second son, Charles, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Tionesta, and has held his present position five years. He married, June 29, 1887, Emma, daughter of George W. and Nellie (Robinson) Sawyer, of Tionesta. Mr. Hunter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Democrat.

SAMUEL D. IRWIN, attorney, Tionesta, was born in Franklin, Penn., March 12, 1835, where his father, Richard Irwin, was a celebrated surveyor. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Irwin, was one of the pioneers of Venango county, and his maternal grandfather, Rev. Hezekiah May, one of the pioneers of Tionesta. Samuel D. Irwin had opportunities for obtaining such an education as the schools and academy of Franklin afforded, which were then

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looked upon as great educational concerns. Again he studied surveying under his father, and at the age of eighteen years was a practical surveyor. From 1855 to 1857 he attended Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Penn. In 1858 he moved to Iowa, and was appointed principal of the high school at Farmington, but in the fall of that year moved to Paola, Kas., and secured the contract for the survey of lands belonging to the Peorias, Weas, Miamis and Piankeshaws, as well as the lands of the settlers in Miami county. During this period he studied law under William R. Wagstaff, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1862. In 1860 new troubles fell upon the border counties, and Miami county became the center of commotion. Capt. Snyder, Charles Shofield and others resided at Osawatomie, while Jamieson, Montgomery and Lane were often there with their jayhawkers to protect the settlers. Irwin then belonged to the home guards, organized for the purpose of defending the place against Quantrill and others, but they sometimes entered Missouri. Mr. Irwin was under Gen. J. H. Lane, in his pursuit of Quantrill, in August, 1863, and subsequently served with the militia until the close of August, when he joined Company I, of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry, and proceeded with that command to Fort Smith, Ark., where he was assigned a place at the headquarters of the Frontier Division of the Seventh Army Corps. He participated in the Red River Expedition, in 1864–65, principally with the engineers and scouts, and was honorably discharged at Little Rock, Ark., July 15, 1865. Returning to Pennsylvania he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in February, 1867; then went into the oil business at Pit Hole City, but success did not crown this venture, and in 1868 he settled at Tionesta. That year he made the first map of Forest county, which was adopted as the official map, revised editions being issued in 1881 and 1883. His law business now had from him some attention, and after having filled the office of county suryeyor, he next became district attorney. Notwithstanding the duties which these positions involved, he found time for literary work, and in 1868 gave to the press his first chapters of the pioneer history of Forest county. In 1876 he completed these most valuable contributions to local history; but, even before complete, the sketches won attention, for, on August 18, 1873, he was honored with a membership in the State Historical Society. His marriage with Miss Mary Thomas, daughter of the State senator, Col. P. D. Thomas, took place March 13, 1871. Mr. Irwin's knowledge of Forest county lands and roads is most complete, and with this comes the kindred knowledge of mineralogy and geology, studies to which he has devoted some time and practical thought. A reference to the general history of the county and of the borough will point. out very fully the important parts played by this modern settler of Tionesta. A. B. KELLY, banker, Tionesta, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., in January, 1837, and is a son of James D. and Sarah (Bennett) Kelly, natives of the North of Ireland, and of Scotch-Irish parentage. They were quite early settlers of Pittsburgh, where they lived and died. The father carried on business as a lumberman, and was also proprietor of a planing-mill in Pittsburgh. A. B. Kelly was reared in his native city, and educated in the public schools and Washington and Jefferson College. He began his business career as a driller in the Venango oil field, which occupation he followed during the year 1860, and in 1861 he embarked in the manufacture of tight oil barrels by machinery, in Tionesta, in which he was engaged until the fall of 1866. He then went into the oil business as a producer, and also engaged in lumbering. a member of the firm of May, Park & Co., bankers, of Tionesta, which firm was organized in 1872, and has been cashier of the bank since its organization. April 28, 1863, Mr. Kelly married Frances Augusta, a daughter of Hezekiah

and Frances A. (Thatcher) May, of Tionesta, and they have seven children: May Stanley (Mrs. Charles Bonner), Arthur Wellington, James Huntington, Benjamin May, H. Edward, Elsie and Archibald Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F.; politically he is a Republican, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention held at Chicago in 1888.

DANIEL STOWE KNOX, postmaster, Tionesta, was born in Windsor, Broome Co., N. Y., November 8, 1831, and is a son of William and Almira (Stowe) Knox; he was reared in his native town until fifteen years of age, when he moved to what is now Kingsley township, Forest Co., Penn., where he attended school for a year. He then engaged in lumbering, in Clarion and Forest counties, Penn., until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, and in September, 1861, went to the front as captain of Company G, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served two years, during which time he was in nine battles, viz.: Big Bethel, West Point, Yorktown, Hanover C. H., Gaines' Mills, Malvern Hill, second battle of Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg, and then resigned on account of disability, having been injured at the battle of Bull Run, and received an honorable discharge. He then located in Oil City, Penn., where he embarked in the oil and lumber businesses, remaining there two and one-half years, when he again located in Kingsley township, this county, remaining until 1868. Then removing to Tionesta, he embarked in general merchandise business, at which he continued six years, and since 1874, lumbering has been his principal business in Tionesta. Mr. Knox married, June 14, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver and Mary O. Spence, of Clarington, Penn., and to them were born nine children: Florence (Mrs. Jacob E. Wenk), Evaline (Mrs. William Smearbaugh), Jessie (Mrs. George Klump), Sallie (deceased), Cora (deceased wife of Jacob Siggins), Edie (Mrs. F. F. Shoup), May, Kate Jane and John (latter deceased). Mr. Knox is a member of the G. A. R. and P. O. S. of A. He has served as justice of the peace at Tionesta twenty years, and burgess several terms; was appointed postmaster of Tionesta in May, 1889. Politically he is a Republican.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE, lumberman and proprietor of the Lawrence House, Tionesta, was born in Hessen - Cassel, Germany, June 6, 1840, and is the son of Hartman and Dorothy (Matho) Lawrence, former of whom died when our subject was six months old; the widowed mother afterward married Jacob Wenk, and in 1847 they immigrated to America, locating in Tionesta, where they now reside. William Lawrence had one sister, Dorcas, deceased wife of George Klinestiver. Mr. Lawrence was reared in Tionesta from seven years of age, receiving a common school education. He was in the Civil war, having enlisted August 19, 1861, in Company G, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battles of Gaines' Mills (where he was wounded, being confined to hospital four months), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (where he was again wounded), as well as other engagements, and received an honorable discharge at Harrisburg, Penn., in September, 1864. After the war he embarked in the grocery business at Tionesta, at which he was engaged three years; then entered the lumber business, which has since been his principal occupation. In February, 1868, he married Hannah S., daughter of Robert and Mary J. (Thompson) McBride, of Tionesta, and they have six children living: Hartman, Laura, Emma, Albert J., John W. and Anna B. Mr. Lawrence is a member of the German Reformed Church, of the F. & A. M. and G. A. R. Politically he is a Republican, and has served one term as treasurer of Forest county.

JOHN W. MORROW, physician and dentist, Tionesta, who was born in Armstrong county, Penn., June 2, 1837, is a son of William and Martha (Hutchinson) Morrow, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. He was reared in his native county, and educated at McElroy's school, Rural Village, and in Dayton Union Academy. In 1870 he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. M. Pettigrew, of Rural Village, and in the fall of 1871 entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, being graduated March 13, 1873. Prior to his study of medicine he taught school thirteen years. In the Civil war he served one year in Company M, Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and was honorably discharged at the close of the struggle. In 1869 he took charge of the United Presbyterian Freedman's Mission School, at Vicksburg, Miss. In 1872 he began the practice of his profession in Atwood, Armstrong Co., Penn., and here he remained until 1881, and was postmaster eight years. He then removed to Tionesta, where he has since resided, having built up a large and lucrative practice. The Doctor has been twice wedded: February 3, 1863, he married Rebecca M., daughter of John and Nancy (Harrison) McFarland, of Armstrong county, and by her had ten children, of whom six survive: Martha H., Nancy C., William G., Matilda C., James D. and Sarah M. On September 8, 1887, Dr. Morrow married his present wife, nee Martha J. Uncapher, of Indiana county, Penn. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, the Venango County Medical Society, and of the G. A. R. Politically he is a Republican, and is now serving his second term as coroner of Forest county. The Doctor is secretary of the board of pension examiners, which was appointed in Tionesta August 23, 1889.

JAMES B. MUSE, son of John S. and Sarah (Walters) Muse, was born at Franklin, Venango Co., Penn., May 4, 1860. His father, a native of Mercer county, still resides at Franklin, and his mother, a native of Newmansville, Clarion county, died about 1861. James B. Muse received his education in the schools of Franklin, and at the age of eighteen years, along with James B. Borland of The Evening News, of Franklin, established that paper, February 18, 1878. For three years he was connected with the News, and in November, 1882, came to Tionesta, taking a position on the Commonwealth. On August 1, 1885, as related in the press chapter, he became part owner of the old Commonwealth office, and established the Democratic Vindicator. The Muse family are pioneers of Mercer county, and John S. Muse, of Venango, emigrating from Delaware to Pennsylvania about the period of the Revolution.

JOHN A. PROPER, farmer and oil producer, Tionesta, a native of Plum township, Venango Co., Penn., born September 12, 1815, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Archer) Proper, and is of Holland-Dutch and Highland-Scotch descent. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Proper, and maternal grandfather, John Archer, were pioneers of Plum and Cherry Tree townships, respectively, in Venango county. Daniel Proper was a farmer by occupation, and cleared and improved a farm in Plum township, on which he lived and died. Our subject was reared in his native town, and received a limited education in the common schools. Like many other pioneers' sons, he experienced various hardships, and at the age of twenty-one years left home and began life in Randolph, N. Y., as a laborer at $10 per month. He later engaged as a jobber of lumber, in Warren and Venango counties, and what is now Forest county, up to 1847. In that year he purchased 1,300 acres of timber land in what is now Forest county, erected two mills and manufactured about 15,000,000 feet of lumber. In 1855 he purchased two farms in Clarion county, where he resided until 1867, carrying on a lumber business at the same time. He then sold out and moved to Tionesta, where he has since been engaged in various branches of

business, including that of hotel proprietor in the borough, four years, lumbering up to 1875, and since 1881 he has been a producer of oil at Balltown. carrying on farming also, near Tionesta. He owns two farms of 500 and 100 acres, respectively, 200 acres of the former of which he had cleared himself. Mr. Proper was among the best pilots on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers for a period of thirty years, and underwent many hardships during that time. In the fall of 1847 he married Sarah, daughter of Jacob and Mary Grove, of Plum township, Venango Co., Penn., and they have seven children: Rozilla (Mrs. Daniel Walters), Jennetta (Mrs. Samuel Varner), Oliver W., Alice (Mrs. F. R. Lanson), J. Floyd, Eu Retta and Forest C. Mr. Proper is a prominent and representative citizen of Tionesta; has held many of its local offices, and is now serving his second term as associate judge of Forest county. Politically he is a Republican. Judge Proper has been one of the most rugged and enterprising pioneers of that section of country, of remarkable strength, courage and powers of endurance; a natural woodsman and noted hunter, having, in recent years, when nearly seventy years of age, hunted and killed as many as four deer in one day. His pleasant home is on the banks of the Allegheny river in Tionesta, where he is now living in his old age, hale and hearty, known and respected by his numerous friends as an honest man of undoubted integrity and worth.

CHARLES A. RANDALL, proprietor of the Rural House, Tionesta, was born near Toronto, Canada, December 27, 1846, and is a son of Edward B. and Mary A. (King) Randall, whose parents were natives of Pennsylvania and of Quaker parentage. Charles A. Randall, when quite young, removed to Iowa with his parents. He was educated in the common schools of that State, and attended the Iowa State University, two terms. In 1865 he came to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and in 1867 to Tionesta, where he now resides, and for a while worked at the carpenter's trade. He was elected justice of the peace in 1875, served four years, but resigned, having been elected sheriff of Forest county in 1879. He was a member of the Electoral College from the Twenty-fifth Congressional District in 1884; was elected to the assembly in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. He has conducted the Rural House in Tionesta since 1874, and is an accommodating and popular landlord. Mr. Randall married, in February, 1871, Mary A., daughter of Charles Wansor, of Mercer county. Penn., and has three children: Lizzie, Vinnie and Adelva. Mr. Randall is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. Politically he has always been a Republican, and during the war of the Rebellion was employed in the post quartermaster's department at Nashville, Tenn.

JACOB I. RANGE. farmer, P. O. Tionesta, was born in Gettysburg, Penn., September 18, 1822, and is a son of James and Mary (Shetrine) Range, who settled in what is now the borough of Tionesta, in 1826, owning all the land comprising the north half of the present borough, and cleared and made all the improvements in land between the Universalist Church on Elm street and Tubbs run. They both died in Forest county. John Range, paternal grandfather of Jacob I., was originally from Adams county, Penn., and with the brother of Ex-President Buchanan, a surveyor, in an early day surveyed "through what is now Forest county and its vicinity. He had two sons, John and James. He finally settled in what is now Tionesta, prior to 1820, and cleared that portion of the present borough, lying south of the bridge. He made his home with his son John, in the borough, and died there. James Range, father of the subject of this sketch, reared a family of six children: Susan (Mrs. James Brinkerhoff), Mary (Mrs. Isaac Lott), Magdalena (Mrs. William Siggins), Emeline (Mrs. Nathaniel Siggins), Peter and Jacob I.