achieve the highest position in the land, that of the Presidency of the United States, died at his home, Wheatland, near Lancaster city, on June 1st, 1868, sixty years ago. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of the Society, suggested that 1928 be officially designated as "Buchanan Year." A bronze statue of

achieve the highest position in the land, that of the Presidency of the United States, died at his home, Wheatland, near Lancaster city, on June 1st, 1868, sixty years ago. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of the Society, suggested that 1928 be officially designated as "Buchanan Year." A bronze statue of

under the direction of Dr. Hopkins for one year Edward Buchanan �entered the General Theological Seminary, New York City, and was grad- uated in 1832. The following extract is taken from a letter, received at that time from his brother James, then United States Minister to Russia. REV. EDWARD YOUNG

memory of a great American, James Buchanan, who lived and died in Lancaster County, surrounded by those who ardently admired and loved him He was born on April 23, 1791, on Dunwoodie Farm near Cove Gap, Pa., the son of an immigrant from Donegal, Ireland. His father, was educated, wise, of great force of

. September 27 is therefore the Sesqui Centennial of the day when Lancaster was the National Capital, an honor which but three other cities in the United States are privileged to have. Threatened by the British Army, which had thrown Washington's Army into retreat at Chadds Ford on the Brandywine on September

, Elbridge Gerry, probably accompanied by others, arrived on Wednesday the 24th. Christopher Marshall, in his diary, under date of Thursday, September 25th, 1777, records: "Came into town President Hancock and some others of the Delegates." One day's session of the Conti- nental Congress was held Saturday

. His birthplace on April 23, 1791, was Stony Batter, a settle- ment in Cumberland County, but later, on the formation of Franklin County, became part of that county and has been such ever since. He was the second of eleven children of James and Elizabeth Buchanan, Scotch-Irish parents of strict