250th anniversary of the Coetus German Reformed Church in Pennsylvania : September 27, 1997, Old First Reformed Church, United Church of Christ, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Summary
This "website on a disc" contains hundreds of pages of documents, photos, images, and scenes from the year-long celebration of York County's 250th anniversary celebration.
Changes in German Surnames and Personal Names--Changes in City and Village Names--Mennonites, Quakers and the Settlement of Pennsylvania--The Wandering Menno Simons--The Beginnings of English Quakerism--William Penn's Travels in Europe--Early German Quakers: A Small Minority--The Frankfort Companie--Germantown and the Susquehanna Subscribers--Protestantism and Books: Driving Forces behind the German Migration--The Froschauer Presses of Zurich--The German Americans--The Land of Wars--Of Kings and Queens and Lesser Nobility--The Rhine as a Migration Route.
Copy of an agreement for the delivery of papers of James Buchanan
Description
Copy of an agreement between the executors of James Buchanan and Henry E. Johnston and Harriet Lane Johnston for the delivery of papers of James Buchanan now at Wheatland. Lancaster. [February 1871].
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph collections
Curatorial collections
Wheatland Mansion
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May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Accession Number
JBMS1995.365
Other Number
JBFP Part 6, Series 2, Subseries 1, Folder 71
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
Contents
A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.
Summary
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.