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of Eastern Sugar Valley. There is plenty of glory, and 

 an admiring posterity ; there can be no prouder title 

 than slayer of the last native wolf in Pennsylvania. 

 Let us hail the names of Nelson, Dickinson, Lyman, 

 Shreckengast, Askey and the rest as heroes of the 

 chase ! 



Among famous Pennsylvania wolfers Bill Long, 

 born near Reading, Berks County, in 1790, and died at 

 Hickory Kingdom, Clearfield County, in May, 1880, is 

 pre-eminent. During his career in the wilds of Clear- 

 field and Jefferson Counties he killed two thousand 

 wolves. In 1835 he had five wolf dens which he vis- 

 ited annually for pups. From one den he abstracted 

 pups five years in succession, as the mother wolves 

 persisted in returning to the same localities. His son, 

 Andy Jackson Long, born in 1829, and died in 1900, 

 killed one hundred and fifty wolves, the last two in 

 1881. George Smith, a Jefferson County hunter, born 

 in 1827, died in 1901, killed five hundred wolves in the 

 Pennsylvania forests. Le Roy Lyman, born in 1821, 

 gored to death by a bull in 1886, was famed as the 

 greatest wolf hunter in Potter County. His son, Milo 

 Lyman, states that his father killed three hundred 

 wolves in Pennsylvania, mostly between the years 1852 

 and 1865, Samuel Askey in Centre County killed 98 

 wolves, Philip Shreckengast in Clinton County killed 

 93 wolves. Wolves in Elk County were prevalent as 

 late as the seventies. P. C. Hockenbery, the well- 

 known photographer of Warren, relates that his 

 mother and self were followed by wolves on Mill 



