Buchanan Made a Mason in Lodge No. 43 December 11, 1816 Worshipful Master 1822-1823 President of the United States 1857-1861 Born, Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa. April 23, 1791 Died, Wheatland, Lancaster Co., Pa. June 1, 1868. In the winter of 1816-17, Hon. James Buchanan, then but twenty-five years of

Lancaster Union, Tuesday, December 22nd, 1835. THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N Vol. XXXIII, pp. 160-7, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster I County Historical Society, is an article on "The Washington Association of Lancaster." Since that paper was published, my

and East King streets, and established in beautiful Wheatland a home destined to be widely known for its comfort, dignity, repose, and kindly hospitality. Mr. Buchanan, by his will dated August 21st, 1867, bequeathed the historic estate to his talented and popular niece, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston

Association, reported that in pursuance of a resolution, the committee had placed on the shelves of the Library the Hugh M. North set of "The Lancaster Bar" complete in volumes one to fifteen, and had sold to George T. Bisel Co., Philadelphia, Pa., the complete set of the "Lancaster Bar," together with six

having thrown Baltimore into a state of intense excitement, sailed to the mouth of the Susquehanna river. The presence so far inland of a British force numbering scarcely five hundred men, soldiers, sailors and marines all told, does not seem to be creditable to the men of Maryland and Vir- ginia ; but

James Wright home" on Sunday, September 25, 1938, when the Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet placed on the wall of this old stone mansion during the Sesquicentennial of Columbia, This tablet was designed and worded by Dr, Herbert H, Beck, president of the Lancaster County