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

Revolution." Major .John Light—a Hero of the Revolutionary War By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In the beautiful old churchyard adjoining Saint James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, Pa.. lie the mortal remains of Major John Light, a dstinguished soldier of the Revolutionary War, who died on July 2nd

, 1880, before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania upon the presentation of portrait of Major General John Fulton Reynolds. �The next six and a half years we find him following the usual life of a naval cadet: namely, grants of absence; assignments to different ships, (in his case, to the "Potomac

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

, 14. (London, John Lane, the Bodley Head. MCMXIII.) �inventor was a pupil of the great artist. 30 This friendship founded on a dis- tant family relationship and ripened by kindred tastes and talents was a fine influence in the life of Fulton and his art. It was characteristic of West to want to help

characterized his intercourse with them. As a tribute of respect for his integrity of character and official services, a letter was presented to him signed by Lancas- ter's mayor and a number of influential citizens, inviting him to partake of a public dinner. 1 The invitation was as follows : "Lancaster, Pa

Public Dinner Tendered to George Bryan Porter, Governor of Michigan, by Citizens of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER G EORGE BRYAN PORTER was born in Norristown, Pa., Feb- ruary 9th, 1791; and died in Detroit, Mich., July 6th, 1834. He was a son of General Andrew Porter, an officer in the