52 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



was in ISG^t and 1865, after Simcox's return from the 

 Civil War. Simcox's wolf traps are now in the author's 

 collection. The last wolves of Wayne Township were 

 probably killed by Jacob Earon, near his residence in 

 the east end of Nittany Valley, who in 1861 lo- 

 cated a wolf's nest in a hollow log on the moun- 

 tain above Kammerdiner Hollow. He killed the 

 six pups, and returning the next day shot the 

 mother wolf. Emmanuel Harman, of jNIt. Zion, 

 born May 25th, 1832, while trout fishing at the 

 head of McElhattan Run, heard wolves howling 

 one night at his camp ; it w^as about 18T0. Campbell 

 Herritt, born in 1834, saw a lone wolf on a number of 

 occasions at his home on the Coudersport Pike, in 

 1856. H. J. Emery, born in 1839, tells of a wolf 

 which plagued the farmers at the mouth of Pine Creek 

 (Lycoming County) just before the Civil War. J. F. 

 Knepley, born in 1837, tells of seeing a wolf near 

 Camp Dodge on Slate Run in 1871, and how he 

 tried to kill it to obtain the pelt as a rug for the 

 wealthy lumberman Norman Dodge. In speaking 

 of the early prevalence of wolves, John Gunsaulus, 

 of Snow Shoe, Centre County, wdio was born in 

 1837, relates how his mother used to go out of doors 

 in the winter mornings at their home near the mouth of 

 Rock Run and pound on the side of the house with a 

 slab of wood to make the wolves stop howling. • He 

 believes that but for poisoning and forest fires there 

 would still be wolves in Pennsylvania. W. H. Franck, 

 born in 1848, relates that up to 1860 he heard 



