BIO: Salmon TOZER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 874.
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  SALMON TOZER, a retired farmer living in Chest township, where for many years 
he also followed the gunsmith's trade, was born January 3, 1835, in this 
township, and is a son of Baurch and Rebecca (Campbell) Tozer.
  The father of Mr. Tozer was born in the state of New York and died in Chest 
township in 1866, at the age of sixty-five years.  He came to this section with 
his brother, Andrew Tozer, in 1830, settling near La Jose, where he spent the 
remainder of his life.  His parents were Thomas and Jane (Stevenson) Tozer, 
natives of Maine, who came very early to Pennsylvania and lived first in 
Clearfield county and then in Indiana county, where they died.  The father of 
Mr. Tozer was a gunsmith by trade.  He married Rebecca Campbell, who died in her 
seventy-sixth year.  She was a daughter of John and Jane Campbell, of Campbell 
town, or Pine Creek, Clearfield county.  Twelve children were born to this 
marriage, of which family three survive:  Salmon; John, who is a clerk in a 
business house at Brookville, Pa.; and Melissa, who is the wife of John Wherle, 
a farmer near La Jose.
  Salmon Tozer attended school in boyhood in Chest township and then learned the 
gunsmith trade in his father's shop and remained at home, on what was called the 
Alger place, until he was eighteen years of age.  He then went into business for 
himself where he now lives.  Mr. Tozer has a fine record as a soldier.  He 
enlisted in August, 1861, and served two years in the Civil war as a member of 
Co. D, 105th Pa. Vol. Inf., which gained a name for bravery as the "Wildcat" 
regiment.  He was in the 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, under Gen. 
McClellan.  He participated in many of the great battles of the war but was 
fortunate enough to escape all serious injury.  He was honorably discharged in 
1863 and then returned to his former home and has been more or less engaged in 
farming and in working at his trade until the present time, but is now 
practically retired.  He is a valued member of the John Telford Post, G. A. R., 
at Westover, Pa.  Mr. Tozer has never married.