Masonic Order Activities and the Anniversary Celebration of James Buchanan Scrapbook
Description
Masonic Order Activities and the Anniversary Celebration of James Buchanan Scrapbook, No date. This scrapbook contains a considerable amount of information about Freemasons and James Buchanan's involvement as a Freemason. Commemorating James Buchanan's 100th year as a Freemason, the book shows the events surrounding that celebration through newspaper clippings and handwritten notations. An item of special interest is the facsimile of a handwritten letter by James Buchanan from 1816. The volume conveys information about the bicentennial of Templarism in Lancaster County. Bylaws and historic member lists are available for Lancaster and Elizabethtown. Some names mentioned are Marquis de Lafayette, Commodore Thomas MacDonaugh (head of a local Freemason chapter), and Andrew Jackson.
Admin/Biographical History
James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791 to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer. He was the second child born out of ten children, and he would go on to outlive all but one of his siblings. Most popularly remembered as Pennsylvania's only President and as a lifelong bachelor, Buchanan committed a lifetime to politics. In 1821, he left his law practice and embarked on his political career after having been voted into the U.S. House of Representatives. He would remain in the House for five consecutive terms before serving as the U.S. Minister to Russia, a Senator in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Secretary of State, the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, and finally, the 15th President of the United States. He died in his bedchamber at Wheatland at 8:30 AM on June 1, 1868. He was 77 years old.
James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries, https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers (JBFP)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm in the LancasterHistory Research Library
LancasterHistory Library collection
Photograph collection
Curatorial collection
Wheatland Mansion
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Other Numbers
MG-0434, Box 075
Other Number
MG-0434, Box 075
Classification
MG0434
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
This scrapbook was cataloged as part of a project funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.
Jacquard coverlet made by Samuel Hippert. Weft yarns are red, green and blue wool and warp is natural white cotton. Two loom widths sewn together in center.
Center field has circles of foliate motifs. Border includes a double row of 8-petal flowers. At foot end and sides is an inner borders of roosters.
Weaver's blocks in corners at foot: "S+ H+ ELI/ ZABETH/ TOWN/ PA 1858/ SARAH/ ANN/ FLURY". Band with "H PATENT" repeated along runs across coverlet between weaver's blocks.
Sides are self-fringes; foot edge finished with applied fringe. Top/head edge has red cotton tape handsewn over the raw edge.
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Corner blocks have "S.H. ELIZABETHTOWN PA 1838 SARAH ANN FLURY". Hippert worked in Mount Joy ca. 1833-1838 and in Elizabethtown ca. 1835-1841.
Elizabethtown High School, East Poplar Street, built 1928 - 1929.
Provenance
Album of 35 mm slides of buildings in Lancaster County designed by architecht C. Emlen Urban. Slides taken by Carol Morgan for a lecture for the Torch Club in June 2002.
Large group of students posed in front of Elizabethtown High School. Identified are top row, left to right: George Fry, Harry Sheetz, Ambrose Plummer, Bertram Ream, Harold Engle, Roy Heim, Benjamin Groff, Milton Heistand, Walter Detra, Harry Lawry, Clyde Coble, Herman Enterline, Vyrle Binkley, James McLaughlin. Second Row: Gertrude Seldomridge, Anna Ruth Eslelman, Kathryn Cassell, Lydia Withers, Elizabeth Heisey, Carrie Schultz, Ruth Westafer, Anna Olweiler, Ethel Kersey, Miriam Bard, Helen Plummer, Margaret Drohan, Ruth Meyers. Third row: Ira Risser, Wilber Heisey, Elmer Eslelman, ?, Frank Breneman, Chester Eckinger, Paul Shauk, Walter Shauk, Claude Breneman, ?, Elizabeth Roeting, Magdaline Sweigart, Marion Reese, Bertha Belser, Anna Stern, Anna Keller, Fanny Heisey, Grace Heisey, Ruth Gise, Anna Ebersole, Ada Fridy, Mabel Charleston, Esther Shearer, Margaret Inners, ?, Mary Belser, Verna Barto, Anna Forman, E. U. Aiemiller, teacher, Miss Carter and Miss Eckman. Seated: Paul Landis, Roy Frey, Charles Abele, ?, Heister Madeira, Robert Hafley, Sheldon Madiera, Jabob Kaylor, Dorothhy Buch, Virginia Martin, Verna Hershey, Daisey Donecker, Salome Withers, Pauline ?, Helen Dennison, Esther Campbell, Reba Ream, Anna Wagner, Myrtle Moyer, Anna Epler, Esther Young, Martha Oberholtzer, Agnes Fackler, Elizabeth Fackler. Front row: Roy Frey, John Meckley, Robert Fisher, Lee Barnes, ?, ? Baker, Howard Landvater
