1. Name and Address of Reporting Person Snyder, Carole B. 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308 USA 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol FirstEnergy Corp. (FE) 3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary) 4. Statement for Month/Day/Year 03/03/2003 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year) 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) ( ) Director ( ) 10% Owner (X) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other (specify below) Senior Vice President 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) (X) Form filed by One Reporting Person ( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person TABLE I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned +------------------------------+----------+----------+---------+--------------------------+--------------+-----------+------------+ |1. Title of Security |2. Trans- |2A.Execu- |3. Trans-|4. Securities Acquired (A)|5. Amount of |6. Owner- |7. Nature | | | action | action | action| or Disposed of (D) |Securities | ship | of In- | | | Date | Date | Code | |Beneficially | Form: | direct | | | | | | |Owned | Direct | Bene- | | | (Month/ | (Month/ | | |Following | (D) or | ficial | | | Day/ | Day/ +-----+---+-----------+---+----------+Reported | Indirect| Owner- | | | Year) | Year) |Code |V |Amount |A/D|Price |Transaction(s)| (I) | ship | +------------------------------+----------+----------+-----+---+-----------+---+----------+--------------+-----------+------------+ TABLE II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned +----------+--------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+---------------------+----------------+----------+-------+-------+------+ |1. |2. |3. |3A. |4. |5. |6. |7. |8. |9. |10. |11. | | | | | | | | | | |Number |Owner- | | | | | | | | | | | |of |ship | | | | | | | | | | | |Deriv- |Form of| | | | | | | | | |Title and Amount| |ative |Deriv- | | | | | | | | | |of Underlying | |Secur- |ative |Nature| | |Conver- |Trans- |Execu- | |Number of | |Securities | |ities |Secur- |of | | |sion or |action |tion | |Derivative |Date Exercisable +-------+--------+ |Benefi-|ity: |In- | | |Exercise|Date |Date | |Securities |and Expiration Date | |Amount | |cially |Direct |direct| | |Price of| | |Transac- |Acquired(A)|(Month/Day/Year) | |or | |Owned |(D) or |Bene- | |Title of |Deriv- |(Month/|(Month/|tion Code|Disposed(D)+----------+----------+ |Number |Price of | |In- |ficial| |Derivative|ative | Day/ | Day/ +------+--+-----+-----+Date Exer-|Expira- | |of |Derivative| |direct |Owner-| |Security |Security|Year) |Year) |Code |V |(A) |(D) |cisable |tion Date |Title |Shares |Security | |(I) |ship | +----------+--------+-------+-------+------+--+-----+-----+----------+----------+-------+--------+----------+-------+-------+------+ Stock $23.75 06/01/2010 Common 27223 D Options Stock (Right to buy) Stock $29.71 03/03/2 A 44400 03/01/2004 03/01/2013 Common 44400 $29.7100 44400 D Options 003Stock (Right to buy) Stock $29.73 06/04/2008 Common 14782 D Options Stock (Right to buy) Stock $34.45 04/01/2012 Common 35000 D Options Stock (Right to buy) Stock $34.8 05/16/2011 Common 25140 D Options Stock (Right to buy) Stock $34.86 06/03/2009 Common 5543 D Options Stock (Right to buy) Explanation of Responses: SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON /s/ Carole B. Snyder DATE 03/04/2003 This option vests yearly in twenty-five percent increments beginning on 3/1/2004.