Eskridge, 34 years Harriet R., 26 years Mary Elizabeth, d Besides many worthy bequests, James Buchanan did not forget his nephews and nieces, who were: Harriet Lane Johnston J. Buchanan Henry, a son of the Rev. Robert Henry and Harriet Buchanan (1802-1840) James B. Lane, grandnephew Mary E. Dunham, niece

said E. Y. Buchanan, during his occupancy of Wheatland, in the ab- sence of said Harriet Lane Johnston and without consulting her or giving her any voice in the matter, proceeded to overhaul, destroy, distribute and appropriate all papers, documents and letters of this class, offering no part of them

of her life. It reads In the memory of the Founder of this House Harriet Lane Johnston and of her husband Henry Elliot Johnston and her two sons James Buchanan and Henry Elliot Johnston, Jr. And in perpetual witness of the love and sorrow of the wife and mother which quickened and deepened her

`College Hill,' and it thundered forth its hoarse notes of acclamation." The day was June 10, 1856, and that morning news had reached Lan- caster that James Buchanan had been chosen by the Democratic National Convention as its candidate for the Presidency. Since 11 o'clock, people had been streaming out to