Administration of her bachelor uncle, James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. — From the Col- lections of the Library of Congress. �A hostess with little perceptivity and restraint would have soon placed the President in embarrassing situations. Because of her good judgment a number of Buchanan's

United States and the Buchanan family, over a period of fifty years, was priceless at time of his death and would become increasingly useful as source material for historians. Main- ly through the efforts of his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, a large portion of these papers have been preserved in both

. 5, 1836 �THE REDOUBTABLE HARRIET LANE Harriet Rebecca Lane, daughter of Elliot T. Lane and wife Jane Bu- chanan (sister of President James Buchanan), was born May 9, 1830, at Mercersburg, Pa., in the home later known as the Waidlich House on Main Street. She was doubly orphaned at the age of eleven