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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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NEHEMIAH FRENCH1818-1909 CHAPTER V OfescrvaJcns m the Susquehanna Valley, Told by a Pioneer Octogenarian—Reveries and Reflections DURING the month of April, 18S0, I was with mygrandfather, WilHam French, m the Cowanesquevalley, Tioga county, Pa. We walked together aboutten miles, one day, to his old farm at Middlebury Cen-tre, seeing a flock of passenger pigeons on the way.He was then 88 years old and was hale and hearty.His pigeon story was interesting, Cur it was of thespring of 1810, when he had been only a boy of 18years and had made his first trip mto Pennsylvania,and at pigeon nesting time His father, JeremiahFrench, had served through the Revolutionary War,and then traveled up the Susquehanna from his fathersfarm, near Shamokin, to Bradford (ounty, where hesoon married )\Tiss Margaret Van Gorder and took herto a farm on the Chemung river, nortn of Elmira, NewYork. It was an old Indian clearing, Avhere my grand-father was born and remained unrd 1834, when heremoved to the Penn

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