HISTORICAL NOTES TI S on. -the DISTAFF SIDE MARION WALLACE RENINGER HANNAH GIBBONS From the early 1800's up to the time of the Civil War, there existed an organization known as the Underground Railroad. The object of this group of brave and active men and women was to assist fugitive slaves on

allow her $180 per annum, so as to make her income $600. Yours affectionately, James Buchanan P.S. I send this letter by General Thomas for greater security. �Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903) Painted in 1899. Photo Courtesy of A. Aubrey Bodine �Surgeon General Foltz shows us the self-assertiveness of

MARION WALLACE RENINGER ANN MOORE & MARY DICKSON It may come as a pleasant surprise to many citizens of Lancaster who have urged that more women be appointed or elected to positions in local, state or national government, when they learn that two of the heads of our Lancaster postoffice, in the

them out of my hands, into the hands of others who have no right to them. Yours, Very Respectfully, Harriet Lane Johnston. This letter is preserved by the Lancaster County Historical Society. It is also reproduced on page 11, "Answer of Defendants." Neither Mr. Swarr nor Edward Y. Buchanan replied to

Preservation&Razingss FORMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING "MODERNIZED" Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society were shocked recently when the owner of its former home at 307 North Duke Street decided to •set a large "picture" window into the front wall in place of the two white-shuttered

EVELYN A. BENSON THE HUGUENOT LE TORTS FIRST CHRISTIAN FAMILY ON THE CONESTOGA Mrs. Benson, long an outstanding authority on the relationships between Pennsylvania Indian traders and the Proprietary Government, reveals in this research paper the origins and ordeals of an early trading family which