Mary Porterfield | 3 | female | Sun May 19 1901 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | May | 1901 | Wild | Job, West Virginia | The children were gathering flowers near their home when they were attacked. A member of a search party found the remains of the children, and shot and killed the bear.[238] | Black bear | | | | | 38.8642774 | -79.5569984 |
Wilie Porterfield | 5 | male | Sun May 19 1901 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | May | 1901 | Wild | Job, West Virginia | The children were gathering flowers near their home when they were attacked. A member of a search party found the remains of the children, and shot and killed the bear.[238] | Black bear | | | | | 38.8642774 | -79.5569984 |
Henry Porterfield | 7 | male | Sun May 19 1901 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | May | 1901 | Wild | Job, West Virginia | The children were gathering flowers near their home when they were attacked. A member of a search party found the remains of the children, and shot and killed the bear.[238] | Black bear | | | | | 38.8642774 | -79.5569984 |
John Dicht | 18 | male | Sat Nov 24 1906 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Nov | 1906 | Wild | Elk County, Pennsylvania | Thinking the bear was dead, Dicht began skinning it. The bear immediately awoke and tore off one of Dicht's arms, and then killed him.[237] | Black bear | | | | 1 | 41.437362 | -78.626009 |
Baby Laird | 1 | nan | Mon Oct 05 1908 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Oct | 1908 | Captive | Tucson, Arizona | After a bear escaped from a cage at Elysian Grove Pleasure Park, Buss Laird ran with her infant child in a go-cart. The bear grabbed and killed the baby.[236] | Black bear | | | | 1 | 32.2228765 | -110.974847 |
Frank Welch | 61 | male | Fri Sep 08 1916 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Sep | 1916 | Wild | Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming | Welch was killed at a camp near Sylvan Pass while carrying a load of hay and oats.[235] Men from the camp killed the bear with a dynamite trap.[40] | Brown bear | | | | 1 | 44.6200885 | -110.5606893314306 |
Joseph B. "Frenchy" Duret | 60 | male | Mon Jun 12 1922 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Jun | 1922 | Wild | Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana | Duret was attacked and partially devoured by a huge grizzly. Duret crawled 1.5-mile (2.4 km) back towards his ranch and died in Frenchy Meadow on Slough Creek.[234] | Brown bear | | 1 | | 1 | 45.269611600000005 | -109.96802375468738 |
Olga Gregorchuk | 9 | female | Thu Aug 29 1929 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Aug | 1929 | Wild | near Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba | Gregorchuk was minding her four-year-old brother, Bill Gregorchuk, while their parents were out working the farm. A large (420 pound) black bear chased Olga and her brother into their family's farm house where it knocked the door in, attacked Olga, dragged her out and ate her. By the time her body w… | Black bear | | | | 1 | | |
Percy Goodair | 52 | male | Thu Sep 12 1929 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Sep | 1929 | Wild | Jasper National Park, Alberta | Goodair, a Parks Canada warden, was killed by a bear while patrolling the Tonquin Valley.[232][233] | Brown bear | | | | 1 | 52.80410345 | -117.80482674803729 |
Jack Thayer | | male | Wed Oct 16 1929 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | Oct | 1929 | Wild | Admiralty Island, Alaska | Thayer, a U.S. Forest Service employee, and Fred Herring, an assistant, encountered a brown bear at close range while conducting a timber survey on southeast Admiralty Island. Thayer shot the bear while Herring retreated to a tree, but the wounded bear mauled Thayer, who died later that evening.[231… | Brown bear | | | | 1 | 57.71332405 | -134.40983757816866 |