36 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



all the instances of panthers noted by the writer of 

 this article, not more than six at most, were females. 

 The information concerning Sam Snyder's record 

 panther was given to the writer by John G. Davis, of 

 McElhattan, who moved to Young Woman's Town 

 with his parents in April of the year in which the 

 beast was killed. He was sixteen years old at the 

 time and remembers the details of the occurrence viv- 

 idly. Michael Pluff, who died at Hyner, Clinton coun- 

 ty, in. January, 1914, aged 74 years, also recalled the 

 circumstance. It is recorded at length in Maynard's 

 History of the County. Hon. J. W. Crawford, of 

 North Bend. Pa., published an interesting account of 

 this panther in the "Renovo Record" of February 20, 

 1914. He says that Snyder went to the front in 1861 

 and was killed at Fort Sumter. The story is w'cll 

 known in Clinton and adjoining counties and several 

 persons, including Judge Crawford, who saw the 

 panther when it was brought to Young Woman's 

 Town, are still ''in the land of the living." The world 

 of sport hails Sam Snyder as a mighty Nimrod ! 

 Simon Pfouts, the great hunter, was the first white 

 man to settle on Kettle Creek, Clinton county. At the 

 foot of Spicewoo'd Island he found, on one occasion, 

 three young panthers lying in their nest of leaves un- 

 derneath the shelter of an old root. He quickly gath- 

 ered them up in his arms and started home. Wlien he 

 had arrived within one-fourth of a mile of his resi- 

 dence the sound of panther yells fell upon his ears. 

 Then commenced a race for life, and Pfouts fully de- 



