President and no nominee since Buchanan. This led to Wheatland and Lancaster, and some one proposed that a stop-over be made in Lancaster, and the first formal ratification meeting of the Presidential campaign be held there. A telegram, sent from Altoona, in- spired a most numerous and enthu- siastic

Lancaster county. He seems to have bounded into lead- ership at once—James Hamilton. Of the four members elected to Assembly, he received the highest vote by far. There was another new figure—John Emerson, of Blue Rock. He was next highest in the vote. Galbraith stood third and John Wright scarcely se

Robert Jenkins in Congress / by Miss Martha B. Clark. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Whitehill, John, 1729-1805. Whitehill, James, 1762-1822. Whitehill, Robert, 1735-1813. Jenkins, Robert, 1769-1848. Legislators--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster

never visited it without taking with him a spray of the sweet brier which grew there. He, like James Buchanan, never married. After leaving Lancaster, Dr. Muh- lenberg went to New York City, where he founded the Church of the Holy Communion and St. Luke's Hospital. The Sisterhood of the Holy Commun- ion

, president of the Farm- ers' (now Trust Company) Bank, and who built "Wheatland," the residence in after years of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States. Robert Jenkins,the iron-master, was of scholarly attainments and a gen- tleman of the old school. The writer has in his possession a

offices in Lancaster agreeably to the Plan thereof exhibited to the Commissioners & lodged with them,—erect the same and bore the holes at and for the sum of £ 25. 0. 0.—the Commiss. �promise to find the labor hecessary for said Business,—and the said Nathaniel Hantsh is to be accountable to the