restored and preserved if this be possible. Miss Lane desires me to send you her kindest regards. From your friend very respectfully James Buchanan Lewis S. Coryell, Esquire 13 Curtis, II, p. 566. 14 Buchanan-Black, August 8, 1861, L. C. 15 Coryell Papers, H. S. P. �Buchanan's attitude towards the South

gave him inspiration to go forward with the great task before him. He seemed to be deeply interested in Lancaster, and talked �at some length of former President James Buchanan. He spoke of his father's contact and service with Lancaster's President,—the only one, so far, who has represented

as simple as his life was : "James Buchanan The Fifteenth President of the United States." He died June 1, 1868. WILLIAM HIESTER. William Hiester of New Holland succeeded Buchanan in the Twenty-Second Congress, in 1831. He was re-elected to the Twenty-Third and also the Twenty-Fourth Congresses. Mr

of the Dem- ocratic Republican citizens of Lancaster county friendly to the election of the Hon. James Buchanan as Vice-President of the United States, was held at the court house in Penn Square, Lan- caster, at the time indicated — Wednesday, March 16th. 1831. James Humes was appointed president

WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan," the fifteenth President of the United States. The work was edited by John Bassett Moore, counsel of the Spanish American Peace Commission in 1898; and

Public Dinner Declined by James Buchanan By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Monday evening, March 3rd, 1828, the Hon. James Buchanan, who represented this district in the Congress of the United States, arrived in Lancaster for a short stay. A number of his friends met at Stehman's tavern on the day