APPENDIX. 
Occurrence of the Buffalo in Union County, Pennsywania.—On pages 87 and 
108 reference is made to the traditional evidence afforded by such names as 
“ Buffalo Valley” and “ Buffalo Creek,’ of the former existence of the buffalo 
near Lewisburg, in Union County, Pennsylvania. Through the kindness of 
my friend, Professor C. H. Hamlin, I am now able to show that such names 
owe their origin to the former presence of buffaloes at. this locality. Pro- 
fessor Hamlin, on writing to Professor J. R. Loomis, of the University at 
Lewisburg, received from him the following in reply to his inquiries. In 
a letter dated Lewisburg, Pa., March 14, 1876, Professor Loomis writes 
as follows: “I have made such inquiries as I could. One man whose 
grandfather he well remembers, as well as much of his conversation, and 
who lived here one hundred years ago, never heard of the bison being 
native of this valley. I went to see the oldest native-born citizen of our 
town, who is now eighty-six years old. He says there were no buffaloes 
in his early days, but it was a current notion in his boyhood days that there 
had formerly been. . . . . Since writing the above I have received the 
enclosed note from Mr. Wolfe, the first gentleman referred to on the other 
page. The information, . . . . coming so directly, . . . . is probably the 
best that can now be gathered up.” 
In the note from Mr. J. Wolfe to Professor Loomis, Mr. Wolfe states as 
follows: “Since seeing you this morning I have had a conversation with 
Dr. Beck, and he informs me that, buffaloes, at an early day, were very 
abundant in this valley, and that the valley received its name from that 
circumstance. The Doctor received his information from Colonel John 
Kelly, who was a prominent and early settler in the valley. Kelly told the 
Doctor that he shot the last one that was seen in the valley. Kelly 
received his information of the abundance of buffaloes from an old Indian 
