History of Warren, (Warren County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Local History Notes:

WARREN, a county in the N. N. W. part of Pennsylvania, bordering on New York, has an area of 800 square miles. It is intersected by the Alleghany river, and drained also by the Conewango, Brokenstraw, Teonesta, and Kenjan creeks. The surface is hilly and in some parts broken and rocky; the soil is generally good in the N. part of the county, and along the large streams. Lumber is the chief article of export; the pine, oak, and chestnut abound in the S. part, and the beech and sugar-maple in the N. Indian corn, oats, potatoes, hay, and butter are the staples: and some maple sugar is also made. In 1850 this county produced 83,398 bushels of corn; 156,480 of oats; 97,237 of potatoes; 20,990 tons of hay, and 335,725 pounds of butter. There were 143 saw mills, 7 flour and grist mills, 3 woollen factories, 2 iron foundries, and 4 tanneries. It contained 18 churches, 3 newspaper offices, 4008 pupils attending public schools, and 40 attending an academy. The creeks afford abundant motive-power. Small boats navigate the Alleghany river. The Sunbury and Erie railroad, and the Alleghany Valley railroad will pass through the county. Organized in 1819. Capital, Warren. Population, 13,671.

Biographies:

Glenni William Scofield, jurist, was born at Dewittville, Chataugua county, N.Y., March 11, 1817. He was apprenticed to a printer, 1831?36; was graduated from Hamilton college in 1840; taught school, and studied law until 1842, when he began the practice of law in Warren, Pa. He was district attorney for his district, 1846?48; a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, 1850?51, and a member of the state senate, 1857?59. Governor Curtin appointed him president judge of the eighteenth judicial district in 1861. He was a representative from Pennsylvania in the 38th-43rd congresses, 1863?75, being one of the three representatives at large from Pennsylvania in the 43d congress, and was chairman of the committee on naval affairs. He was register of the U.S. treasury, 1878?81, and associate justice of the U.S. court of claims, 1881?91. He received from Hamilton college the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1884. He died at Warren, Pa., Aug. 31, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor