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Mr. Carl provided insights into many historical figures from Bradford County, some very well-known and others more obscure.
He provided tidbits on these "Interesting People":
• Charles Carroll of Carrolton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, once owned over 1,000 acres in Bradford County, including Tioga Point and Athens. His daughter Polly oversaw his land holdings here.
• Thomas Hartley and John Sullivan. American officers who Mr. Carl said were responsible for "wiping out the Native Americans" in Bradford County. Col. Hartley and his men defeated Warriors from the Six Nations near Cedar Ledge on September 26, 1778. General John Sullivan marched through much of the county in 1779 ending the Indian threat in the county.
• Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was guillotined before she could relocate to a safe haven planned for her at French Azilum. Royalist emigreés fleeing the French Revolution laid out a colony there, but after ten years they returned to France.
• Stephen Foster, the famed American composer, spent some time in the county with his brother, who worked on the canal in Towanda. Stephen attended academies in Towanda and Athens, and wrote music here, including "The Tioga Waltz." His composition "Camptown Races" may have been inspired by the town of that name.
• David Wilmot, US Congressman, Senator and Judge, was sponsor of "The Wilmot Proviso," which sought to prohibit the extension of slavery into new territories and states.
• Judson W. Holcomb of LeRoy was the Clerk in the US House of Representatives during the Civil War. His signature is among those on the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Henry Arnold, blacksmith at Fortress Monroe, forged the shackles used on Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Mr. Arnold relocated to Granville because of Forrest Leonard, who said that Granville needed a blacksmith.
• Peter Herdic developed Minnequa, Williamsport and other places and invented the "Herdic carriage.
• Alice Evans studied bacteria and virus and discovered that undulant fever developed in people who consumed raw cow's milk. Her research led to mandatory Pastuerization of milk in 1930.
• Mary Morrow Mitten, succeeded her late husband as Bradford County Sheriff, becoming the first female sheriff in Pennsylvania.
• P P Bliss was a renowned hymnalist who lived in the Rome area.
• Edgar C, Davenport, brother of Harry Davenport, recorded poems and orations on Edison cylinders. Mr. Carl played a 1908 recording of Mr. Davenport's recitation of "Lasca - Down by the Rio Grande."
• Thomas Milling, was US Air Force General, who was a pionerr of US military aviation. As a young officer, his plane made a forced landing near Carbon Run while enroute to Elmira, NY.
• Jane Delano, who had a summer home in Canton, organized the US Army Nurse Corps in World War I.
• William B. Wilson of Blossburg once worked in coal mines at Carbon Run and was US Secretary of Labor under President Woodrow Wilson.
• L T McFadden was US Congressman from 1915 to 1935.
• "Pat" Ballard from Troy arranged music for Fred Waring and wrote popular music, including "Mister Sandman."
• "Specs" O'Keefe was an inmate in Bradford County for about three years in the early 1950s. One of the robbers in the infamous "Brinks Job," he was captured after being spotted by Towanda Police Chief Dean Meredith.
• B D Hyman was an author who lived in Wyalusing. Her mother was actress Bette Davis, Miss Hyman's works "My Mother's Keeper" and "Narrow Is The Way" were written in Wyalusing.