14 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Creek in 18G9. The last wolves in Elk County, on 

 which bounties were paid, are recorded in Dr. W. J. 

 McKnight's "Pioneer Outline History of Northwest- 

 ern Pennsylvania" as follows : J. R. Green, Nov. cS, 

 1871, one; j. Bennett. Jr., Oct. 28, 1873, one; A. J. 

 Rummer, Dec. 13, 1874, one; J. R. Green, October, 

 1874, one; John Myers, Dec. 14, 1874, one; George 

 Smitli, .\pril 8, 1874, two; Charles A. Brown, Dec. 

 28, 1874, one; O. B. Fitch, December, 1877. one. 

 James Irvin collected the last wolf bounty in Warren 

 County in 1866. In 1865 several wolves were killed 

 I)y the Faddy boys. Seneca Indians, on the Cornplanter 

 Reservation, in Warren County. Wolves were plenti- 

 ful on Cornplanter's Reservation and on Kinzua Creek 

 as late as 1870. Indians killed the last wolves in War- 

 ren County in the late sixties, but there is no record of 

 their having collected any bounties on the scalps. Jim 

 Jacobs, the old Seneca elk hunter, was conspicuous 

 among the redmen who hunted the last wolves in 

 Warren and McKean Counties. According to some 

 authorities this mighty Nimrod was killed by a train 

 near Bradford in 1880. although John C. French, of 

 Roulette, Potter County, declares that he saw him on 

 the Seneca Reservation, alive and well in September, 

 1881. But such an apparition would not surprise the 

 Indians, who firmly believed in ghosts. General 

 Egbert L. Mele, Civil War hero and pioneer of Mc- 

 Kean County oil fields, purchased two female wolves 

 from C. W'. Dickinson, of Norwich, that county, as or- 

 naments to his estate on Riverside Drive, New York 



