Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
The story of president James Buchanan's lost love. He was engaged to be married to Ann Coleman in 1819. She broke off the engagement and told Buchanan she never wanted to see him again. Within a few months she died suddenly. Buchanan never married and kept her portrait in his bedroom until his death.
Catalog of an exhibition prepared cooperatively by the San Diego Museum of Art under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Chapters: The liberal tradition -- The English jurisprudential tradition -- The literature of political economy and improvement -- The civic humanist tradition -- The literature of enlightenment -- The Scottish moral and historical tradition -- American voices
Summary
This publication shows the importance of "The Library Company" in Philadelphia and its books during the formation of the United States. The books were used by the men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to create a constitution for the nation. The library held books of all political theories of the time,as well as books about law, history, etc. This book describes the various bodies of knowledge available there to the founders.
Copy 2 from the Preident James Buchanan Collection. Front cover detatched, back cover missing. Inscribed on flyleaf Harriet Jane Johnston, Wheatland 1868. B96.164.1.
Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Mitchell families who came mainly from Scotland, Ireland and England. Some focus is on (but not limited to) John Mitchell, who was born ca.1708, and died in 1767, at Drumore Township, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His wife was Mary Argiff. Their son, George inherited his father's plantation "Plainfield," established in 1738 at Fawn Township (now Peach Bottom Township) in York County, Pennsylvania. Some families also migrated to Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and to Scotch Ridge, in Belmont County, Ohio (now Weber Township), Wood County, Ohio). Later descendants also lived in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Southh Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and elsewhere in the United States.
A collection of genealogic newsletters, "The Pangburn Letter", issued by an organization which states its goal is "to disseminate information to others interested in the Pangburn lines".
See "Minutes and Papers of the Revolutionary Committees in Lancaster County, 1774-1777 by Francis S. Fox found in Pennsylvania History, v. 71, no.2 (2004), p. 213-225 for related information.
#68, Lancaster Committee.
Reproduced from the collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
William Reynolds was born in Lancaster,PA, and was the brother of Civil War General John Reynolds. The expedition explored 280 islands, mostly in the Pacific ocean, and over 800 miles of Oregon was mapped. Of no less importance, over 60,000 plant and bird specimens were collected. A staggering amount of data and specimens were collected during the expedition, including the seeds of 648 species, which were later traded, planted, and sent throughout the country. Dried specimens were sent to the National Herbarium, now a part of the Smithsonian Institution. There were also254 live plants, which mostly came from the home stretch of the journey, that were placed in a newly constructed greenhouse in 1850, which later became the United States Botanic Garden. [from Wikipedia]
