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12 December 1901, Cameron County Press

Found their father. Mrs. H. H. Patterson of Benezette and Mrs. Bert Smith of Driftwood were in town [Smethport] last week in quest of their father, Harry English, whom they had mourned for dead for several years. A few days before their arrival they had received a letter from him stating that he was in Smethport and expressing a great desire to see them. Mr. English who in his early days was the talk of Warren and McKean counties because of his deeds, both good and bad, has been an inmate in the poor house for several years and there his daughter found him. The meeting with a parent whom they had mourned as dead was affecting in the extreme. Harry English, at one time a man of magnificent physique, is now a bed-ridden invalid and required considerable care and attention, so it is quite probable he will remain in the institution where these attentions are assured him, although it is said that his daughters greatly desired to take him away but were convinced that his present abode was best during the short period of life that remains to him. – Smethport Miner.