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570. FIPS code. 42-82160. Website. www .wellsboroborough .com. Wellsboro is a borough and county seat of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The borough was founded by Benjamin Wistar Morris. It is located 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Williamsport. The population was 3,472 at the 2020 census.
Leonard Harrison was born on January 10, 1850. [2] Harrison attended the Wellsboro public schools and the Wellsboro Academy. He worked as a carpenter in his father's business initially, then began working as a clerk in the Wellsboro post office and for a bookstore when he was 15. [1] From 1878 to 1884, he worked as a clerk in the Tioga County ...
Matt E. Baker. Matthew E. Baker (born January 24, 1957) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 68th District and was elected in 1992. He resigned from the House on February 19, 2018, to accept a job with the Trump Administration, regional director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External ...
Tioga County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,045. [1] Its county seat is Wellsboro. [2] The county was created on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County [3] and later organized in 1812. [4] It is named for the Tioga River.
Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, [1] is a 47-mile (76 km) gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania . It sits in about 160,000 acres (650 km 2) of the Tioga State Forest. The gorge begins south of Ansonia, near Wellsboro, along U.S. Route 6 and continues south.
Mary Wells Morris. Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, statue of Mary Wells Morris, April 2011. Mary Wells Morris (September 4, 1764 – November 6, 1819) is the person that Wellsboro, Pennsylvania is named after. She was born in Burlington County, New Jersey. [1] She moved to Tioga County with her husband Benjamin, her son Samuel, and her daughter Rebecca.
Ed Schieffelin was born in a coal-mining region of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent New York and Pennsylvania family, in 1847. His great-grandfather Jacob Schieffelin, Sr., born in 1757, joined the Loyalist army and served as Henry Hamilton's secretary during the Revolutionary War. Schieffelin was captured in 1779 and held ...
Horace B. Packer was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1851. He attended the common schools, the Wellsboro Academy, and Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Career. Packer studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in 1873 and commenced practice in Wellsboro. He was also engaged in the real estate ...