In search of Buchanan : 'Clarior hinc honos' : the stories of some Buchanan ancestors before and after the emigration of James Buchanan of Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1783
iii, 152, [17] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
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Sub-title on cover: from Anselan to President James Buchanan.
"Some of these stories are incorporated in the BBC1 TV documentary, 'Are you related to an American President?', produced by Big Mountain Productions."
Introduction: Remembering -- Leavening, 1786-1819 -- Hardening, 1820-1834 -- Messing, 1834-1840 -- Wooing, 1840-1844 -- Ministering, 1844-1848 -- Running, 1848-1853 -- Presiding, 1853-1868 -- Epilogue: Preserving -- Washington residences of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (1834-1853) -- Percentage correlation of roll call votes of James Buchanan with senators of the Bachelor's Mess, 23rd to 28th Congresses (1834-1844) -- Calendar of correspondence of James Buchanan / Harriet Lane Johnston and William Rufus King / Catherine Margaret Ellis (1837-1868.
Summary
"Politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did they never marry? Might they have been gay, or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day 'bromance'? Then, as now, they have intrigued by the many mysteries surrounding them. In Bosom Friends : the Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse. There developed a bosom friendship that blossomed into a significant political partnership. Before the Civil War, each man was elected to high executive office, William Rufus King the vice-presidency in 1852 and James Buchanan as the nation's fifteen president in 1856. This book offers a dual biography of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. Special attention is given to their early lives prior to elected office, the circumstances of their boardinghouse friendship, and the juicy political gossip that has circulated about them ever since. In addition, the author traces their many contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the debates over slavery, while finding their style of politics to have been disastrous for the American nation. Ultimately, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were, and continue to be, an important part of success in American politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.
Summary
An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.
A study was made of the wood in the log cabin which is said to be the birthplace of President James Buchanan. Since there is no proof that he was born in that particular cabin, the researchers wished to know if this cabin could have been his birthplace. They concluded that the " largest portion of the cabin beam samples were cut at or before 1785, six years before the birth of President Buchanan." This showed that the cabin existed at the time of his birth.
Yearbook of German-American studies : Supplemental issues ; 3
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Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
From the editor -- A Fraktur tribute to Professor Earl C. Haag / Peter V. Fritsch -- A tribute to a friend and fellow scholar / C. Richard Beam -- Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): the leading Pennsylvania poet of his generation / C. Richard Beam -- The first college course in Pennsylvania German / William W. Donner -- Reverend Howard J. Frey's Pennsylvania German service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984 / K.A. "Butch" Reigart -- A letter defining Old Order Mennonite worship in the nineteenth century / Amos B. Hoover -- New directions in a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice: a twenty-first century powwower / David W. Kriebel -- Language and otherness: popular fiction and the Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography / Joshua R. Brown -- "Mir schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!": zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA / Michael Werner -- Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: variation, change, decline / Michael R. DeHaven -- Solving the preacher's dilemma: communication strategies in Old Order Amish sermons / Jörg Meindl -- The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary brings back memories / Jennifer L. Trout -- Kucheheiser: cake and mead shop traditions / Alan G. Keyser -- Der Schtruwwelpitter: Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, dutchified by Earl C. Haag / Walter Sauer -- An 1857 version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland / William D. Keel -- Revisiting Aunt Hannah: African-American folk humor in nineteenth-century Lancaster County / Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern / Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi -- Frühes deutsches Stadtbuch, Landgeschichte, Mundarten: Geistig-religiöse Strömungen in Europa vor der Entdeckung Amerikas / Helmut Protze -- Contributors.
On front of front flyleaf: "Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University.
Charles Louis Eberle was born in Dalheim,Germany, in 1766. He took up the family trade of making cutlery and surgical instruments. He emigrated to America in 1794 and continued in his trade. He first lived in Philadelphia and later moved to New York state where he took up farming. He moved again to Germantown,PA, to help his son who was farming and operating a store. A daughter lived in Lancaster County,PA.
This is a transcript of a Pennsylvania German talk presented at Muddy Creek Farm Library, Farmersville (Ephrata), Pennsylvania, on September 4, 2015.
Excerpt: "The main thing this evening will be [another] nice talk by...Alan Keyser having to do once again with old Pennsylvania Dutch foodways...Now, the last time I spoke...I described where folks used to eat and how they ate. This time I want to talk a bit about where and how they cooked their food and did their baking, and also about the use of smokehouses." The conversation discusses hearth cooking and all it requires: firewood, pots and pans, and chimney cleaning.
