Letter from James Buchanan to Elliott Eskridge Lane
Description
Letter from James Buchanan to Eskridge Lane consisting mainly of financial matters but also includes mention of his to-be-kept-secret meeting with Mr. Soulé at Ostend and the cholera epidemic. Legation of the United States, London.
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
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Wheatland Mansion
Notes
May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Accession Number
JBMS1995.188
Other Number
JBFP Part 1, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 61
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
In September 1854, a devastating cholera epidemic struck Columbia. This collection contains correspondence with and records of actions taken by Sanitary Committee, including minutes, accounts, donations, and bills.
This collection contains correspondence regarding Henry A. Zug's employment with the United States Treasury Department, including a letter from Thaddeus Stevens recommending his appointment to the department, as well as recipes for Zug's National Bitters and teaching certificates of his daughter, Lola Zug, who taught in the Lancaster city schools for 47 years.
Admin/Biographical History
Henry A. Zug was born in Penn Township, Lancaster County in 1826. He worked in as a customs agent in the United States Treasury Department in Philadelphia. He married Fanny Hershey in 1847. Zug also manufactured Zug's National Bitters with business partners, Dr. Jacob H. Kurtz and J. S. Walton. He died in Philadelphia in 1890. His daughter, Lola Zug, was a teacher in Lancaster city schools for 47 years before retiring in 1926.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Henry A. Zug Collection (MG0986), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
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Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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