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This article describes a new Chamber of Commerce booklet being used to promote Kane as a year-round health resort. Dr. E. H. McCleery served on the approval committee for the booklet, and his wolf park is featured in the booklet alongside other local attractions. Partial text of the article is…
Date: June 30, 1931

This article reports that five arctic wolf pups were born at the McCleery wolf park on April 3. The mother killed one of the pups but allowed the other four to live. These four pups are expected to survive, and constitute the first litter of white arctic wolves to survive in captivity. Partial text…
Date: May 1, 1931

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This photograph depicts five men (from left to right: Jim Farnsworth, Loot Farnsworth, Charles Stacy, Alf Farnsworth, and Cliff Moyer) with a dead mountain lion from Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The mountain lion escaped from the park in February…
Date: February 14, 1946

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This photograph depicts four unidentified people (two men and two women) and Hilda Jones (the young girl sitting on the ground) - standing in front of the Jones' house in Kane, PA. It is not necessarily relevant to Dr. McCleery's wolf park, but was scanned alongside other images. This photograph is…
Date: 1925

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This photograph depicts five wolf pups around a dish at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA.

This postcard was published between 1921 (when Dr. McCleery obtained his first wolf) and 1929 (when Dr. McCleery moved the wolf park to the Route 6 location).
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

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This photograph depicts five wolf pups at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA.

This postcard was published between 1921 (when Dr. McCleery obtained his first wolf) and 1929 (when Dr. McCleery moved the wolf park to the Route 6 location).
Date: Between 1921 and 1929

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This photograph depicts five wolves at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. One of the wolves is lying on a tall structure in the distance. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R. Jones.

The photo album of Margaret R. Jones includes two…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This photograph depicts five women standing by the fence at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. The second woman from the left is Margaret Jones, wife of Robert B. Jones. The rest of the women are unidentified. This photograph is included in the photo album of…
Date: Probably between 1921 and 1925

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This photograph depicts six unidentified people - four girls and two boys - outside of what appears to be the old Kane, PA high school on Chestnut Street. This photo is not necessarily relevant to Dr. McCleery's wolf park, but was scanned alongside other images. This photograph is included in the…
Date: Probably the early 1920s

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This photograph depicts five men (from left to right: Loot Farnsworth, Jim Farnsworth, Alf Farnsworth, and Cliff Moyer) and a dog with a dead mountain lion from Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The mountain lion escaped from the park in February 1946…
Date: February 14, 1946

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This photograph depicts four women - from left to right: Ruth Jones, Margaret Jones, and two unidentified women - standing in the snow by the fence at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located within the town limits of Kane, PA. This photograph is included in the photo album of Margaret R.…
Date: Between 1921 and 1924

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This is a silent Fox Movietone News reel which depicts Dr. McCleery standing in front of the wolf park entrance and then walking in the fenced-in runway between the wolf pens as the wolves fight through the wire of the pens. Visitors to the wolf park can be seen outside of the pens.

This film is…
Date: Early 1930s

Many companies offered their appreciation for and well-wishes to Dr. E. H. McCleery and Jack Lynch in this special edition of the Kane Republican. This advertisement by the Kane Dairy Cooperative Association honors Dr. McCleery for ensuring the future of the lobo wolves and extends good wishes to…
Date: February 20, 1962

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This photograph depicts two wolves (presumably offspring of the famous outlaw wolf named "The Custer Wolf") at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. The cropped version of this photograph is an AZO undivided postcard. The caption on the front of the card…
Date: Between 1929 and 1932

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This photograph depicts two wolves (presumably offspring of the famous outlaw wolf named "The Custer Wolf") in a pen at Dr. McCleery's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA (although little of this pen is visible, another photo which is clearly from the Route 6 location…
Date: Between 1929 and 1949

This article describes the possibility of creating a preserve for Jack Lynch's lobo wolves in their natural habitat, in part due to Lynch's inability to continue funding the wolves. The proposed house bill (1916) - an idea of Rep. Jerry Hughes, a proponent of the wolves - would appropriate $50,000…
Date: March 2, 1980

This is an alumni catalog for the Jefferson Medical College. It provides a brief description of each graduate's current work and location as of 1917.

Dr. Edward H. McCleery of the class of 1891, currently a physician in Kane, PA, is listed on page 148. His brief biography is quoted below as it is…
Date: 1917

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This book chapter is a preliminary chapter for the Ostrom family scrapbook compiled by Judy Slack for her book titled "George N. Ostrom: Pioneer, Preservationist, Painter. 1888-1982." (the final published version of this chapter is much shorter).

This chapter describes George N. Ostrom's work as…
Date: 2013

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One of Dr. McCleery's original wolves.
Death Date: Was still alive in 1929 to be transferred to the new park1(p.15)

This photo is of Jack Lynch sitting on a steel den in a pen with two wolves. It is accompanied by a caption regarding his getting acquainted with the wolves.

An excerpt from the caption is quoted below.
Date: February 20, 1962