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

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

. Jacob Slough's tavern on Fri- day evening, February 28th, 1817. Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel Carpenter, Esq., secretary. A society was organized ; and a committee, consisting of Samuel White, Joseph Ogilby and James Humes, was appointed to prepare a constitution1. The Lancaster

United States. By order G. Washington, H. Knox, Sec. President. A manuscript, on file with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of great interest to Lancaster is a membership roster, dated Lancaster August 1, 1783, captioned, 3rd Penna. Regiment, Members of the Cincinnati Society. The manuscript bears

encouraged by the success that had at- tended its efforts, as well as by demands for a more widely ex- tended application of its benevolence, no longer hesitated to solicit the assistance of the public. The citizens of Lancaster were called upon, not on behalf of sturdy mendicants, idle vagrants, or juvenile