The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

Chester Valley; and two main lines of the Under­ ground Railroad ran through Lancaster County, close to where the two lines of the great steam railway which tra­ verses it from east to west are now located. A9quiescing in this decision Pennsylvania, in 1847, re- . pealed the provisions of the Act of 1826

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 251-274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

activity and art culture could be more profitably exercised at some early period than a practical study of the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster, accompanied by a pop- ular collection and exhibition of the numberless miniatures and portraits which adorn the households of this city and county, and whose

, lately deceased, married J. B. Kerfoot, formerly of Chicago, now, like Mr. Hunter, resident of New York. He was a descendant of the well-known Kerfoot family of Lancaster, of which one branch achieved fame and for- tune in Chicago. To Mr. Kerfoot the author makes acknowledgment of in- valuable aid in

Robing Room of the Church, and the inscription upon it is as follows: "Here are interred the Remains of THOMAS COOKSON (Late of Richmond, in Yorkshire, Great Britain), Esquire. He held and discharged with integrity several of the first offices in this County of Lancaster, and thereby, And by his generous

Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: A reminiscence of Langdon Cheves / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857. Legislators--United States--Biography. Slavery--Law and legislation--Pennsylvania. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County

, American--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: [4]-15 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.19 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room