VII. THE BIGGEST WOLF. 



FROM "Old" Nichols, a respectable Indian well 

 known along the Coudersport Pike, comes the 

 story of the killing of the biggest Pennsylvania 

 wolf. As may be supposed, it was a grey wolf. The 

 slayer was none other than the famous half-breed 

 Jim jacobson, wdio, it is claimed, brought to earth one 

 of the last elks in Pennsylvania, and some say the last 

 twelve elks slain in the Commonwealth. But the most re- 

 markable part of the narrative is that this intrepid 

 hunter was but ten years of age at the time of this 

 matchless exploit ! Ths biggest wolf was killed by the 

 "littlest" hunter. Jim Jacobson, or to be mare exact, 

 Samuel Jimmerson Jacobson, was born at New Bergen, 

 now Cartee Camp, in Potter County, in 18-1:8. The 

 parental shack stood, it is said, on the site of Charles 

 Schreibner's barn. His father, Jacob Jacobson, was a 

 native of Sweden Hill, not far from Coudersport, 

 while his mother was Mary Jimmerson, daughter of 

 King Jimmerson, a Seneca chieftain, who was said to 

 be a son of j\Iary Jemison, the justly celebrated "White 

 Woman of the Genesee. Jacob Jacobson was of 

 Swedish extraction, and died in 1852. It was during 

 the month of April, 1858, that the now historic "Spring 

 Blizzard," a snow storm of imprecedented severity, 

 occurred. According to the Clinton County Times, 

 this blizzard occurred in the latter part of April, 1851-. 



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