Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — 110-YEAR-OLD CATALPA DIES [ARTICLE]

110-YEAR-OLD CATALPA DIES

Historic Tree in Pennsylvania Town Falls With Crash After Reaching Ripe Old Age. Bristol, Pa—Bristol’s venerable one-hundred-and-ten-year-old catalpa tree, on the Edward Bruden premises, died of old age and fell the other day, while the family were at dinner. The old ivy which clung fast to the ancient tree was gathered in fragments by hundreds as relics. A peculiar remnant of this old catalpa tree, a gigantic stump, was over twen-ty-five feet high, and when viewed from one Standpoint looked like an elephant standing on Its hind legs. The “old elephant tree," as they call it, has a history that runs back before the Bruden advent, to the days when the descendants of Samuel Launders, an English tory flourished ih its shade. It measured just above the ground 21% feet In circumference and near the top of the stump 16 feet.