62 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



Reminscences by Henry Wren 



Henry Wren, Civil War veteran, of Loganton, Clin- 

 ton County, born in 1837, says : 



"When I was young, about 44 years old, I chased 

 a bear out of 'the bush, and he was running and jumped 

 over a log, and I shot him in his hind foot. I ran 

 ahead and went over a broken out tree. It leaned over 

 another 'tree about nine feet in the air, and the bear 

 ran up the mountain and stopped on a rock, and I held 

 my own ears when I pulled the trigger. My own foot 

 slipped and my bullet broke his neck. That bear is 

 one, and the other bear I was out alone. It had 

 snowed, and I was hunting deer. He was traveling 

 along and I thought it was a dog, but when I looked at 

 his ears I got down on my knee and when I drew my 

 hammer up toward it he stopped and I shot him 

 through the head. That is the second one. 



"All this happened in my young days. If I live 

 until the 6th of March, 1921, I will be 84 years old. 



"I am an old veteran soldier of the Civil W^ar, a 

 Corporal, and the oldest man in Lk)ganton. v 



Mr. Karstetter's Views 



A. D. Karstetter states : 



"Daniel Mark says that a crew of men started the 

 largest bear that ever crossed Sugar Valley. It was 

 started in Lycoming County, swam the river near the 



