GREENE COUNTY CORONERS of the PAST
1796 - present time
Overview — The County Coroner is responsible for investigating all deaths of a suspicious or violent nature. When inquests are warranted, the coroner is empowered to perform autopsies, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and issue certificates of death where death occurs without medical attention or attendance.
The coroner investigates all sudden, suspicious, violent, traumatic, criminal, unexplained and certain operative deaths. These investigations are conducted in order to expand the knowledge and understanding of mechanisms which result in death. The coroner, having viewed the body, shall investigate the facts and circumstances concerning deaths which occurred within the county for the purpose of determining whether an autopsy is warranted or an inquest thereof shall be made.
County Coroners — past and present:
James Boone (Nov 8, 1796)
John Corbly (1801 - 1802)
Samuel Harper (Nov 4, 1802)
Samuel Huston (Oct 25, 1805)
Samuel Harper (Oct 31, 1817)
Lot Lantz (Feb 26, 1821)
Robert Maple (Mar 21, 1822)
George Monis (Dec 24, 1833)
Daniel Smith (Feb 25, 1840)
William Campbell (Nov 9, 1846)
Wm. G. W. Day (Jul 11, 1857)
James Acklin (Feb 15, 1864)
Wm. B. Stewart (Jan 4, 1868)
Joel A. Harris (Jan 6, 1871)
Lewis N. Johnson (Nov 5, 1873)
Robert Dougherty (Dec 8, 1876)
William H. Rose (Dec 11, 1878)
John Mathews (1879—1881)
Leroy W. Carrel (Dec 28, 1881)
George Frazier (Dec 22, 1885)
Samuel M. Felton (1884—1885)
George Frazier (1885—1888)
Hiram Kent (1888—1891)
J. B. Roberts (1891—1894)
John J. Koebert (1894—1897)
George E. Minor (1897—1900)
W. P. Knox (1900—1906)
R. W. Morris (1906—1909)
A. T. Adamson (1909—1917)
Dr. G. C. Howard (1917—1929)
Norman Wood (1929—1933)
Albert Rush (1933—1938)
Raymond C. Adamson (1938—1945)
Charles E. Haines, Jr. (1945—1953)
Frank F. Bryan, Jr. (1953—1961)
Frank J. Behm: 1961, re-elected in 1965, 1969, 1973, 1997, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993
(Partial Data Source: History of Greene County by Samuel P. Bates, 1888; Reproduction sponsored by John Corbly Chapter, DAR, Waynesburg, PA -- Ms. Nancy Huffman, Regent (p. 459))
For general information, please contact the Information Services at 724-852-5399 / Toll Free: 1-888-852-5399. County Office Building, 93 E. High Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370
