The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

tribute to the many excellent traits of character of one of the most numerous of the various nationalities that settled Lancaster county and contributed so much to its development and pro- gress. Mr. Hensel said: Mr. Toastmaster: I do not know what "occurrence"* it was on your right to which you so

power to increase it to a million— less than the present value of the trol- ley lines from Columbia to Gap. Hon- ored local names• in that early corpor- ation were those of George B. Porter, James Buchanan, Amos Ellmaker and Samuel Dale, Lancaster, and Jacob Strickler, James Given, John Barbel and James

, "during the prevalence of the Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania took an active part in the field against the insurrectionists, and gained much credit in the campaign." Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, pp. 226, 616 and 698. Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. 4, pp. 14, 136, 137 and

Chester Valley; and two main lines of the Under­ ground Railroad ran through Lancaster County, close to where the two lines of the great steam railway which tra­ verses it from east to west are now located. A9quiescing in this decision Pennsylvania, in 1847, re- . pealed the provisions of the Act of 1826

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 251-274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of

): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [111]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 4 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.1

activity and art culture could be more profitably exercised at some early period than a practical study of the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster, accompanied by a pop- ular collection and exhibition of the numberless miniatures and portraits which adorn the households of this city and county, and whose