THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN One hundred years ago, today, in the stately mansion just a stone's throw from the building where we are gathered, James Buchanan clad in a dressing gown and slippers, sat alone in his study trying to calm his nerves and to itemize a list of incidentals

Franklin and Marshall College Library. ° George Tichnor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, N. Y., 1883, I, pi 21. 10 Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1883; Boston Post, Sept. 12, 1883, containing the refutation. �In those days Lancaster was a proud community which was still quite conscious of the fact that it had

" l James Buchanan, Big Wheel of the Railroads BY OLIVER S. SPROUT While much has been written concerning the early development of our railroads; two local men appear as having been slighted in the roles they filled as railroad builders. Their advancement of land transport techniques would have

which his loyal friend, James Logan, found interfered with the proprietor's own financial interests. William Penn, in embracing ideas of religious and political freedom, had not set out deliberately to impoverish himself. In a way he had thought of him- L. L. B. III, p. 125. J. L. to A. Galbraith, 26

, James was born, in variance with all other records of Thackara, including his tombstone inscription in St, Peter's Episcopal Church graveyard, 3rd and Pine sts., Philadelphia, which records March 12, 1767, date of birth. If the November date of the arrival of his parents in America is c0rrect, it is