/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Aftermath supplementary to Christiana Riot, 1851 / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society

boundary between the United States and the Spanish posses- sions on our southern borders. That work accomplished, Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania, in 1801, appointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. Lan- caster being at that time the State Capital, he moved to this place

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An artistic aftermath / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Eichholtz, Jacob, 1776-1842. Society of Artists of the United States--Exhibitions. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher

, now the Iris Club house. About the same time his brother, David Rit- tenhouse Porter, was Governor of Pennsylvania from January 15, 1839, to January 21, 1845. Meantime an- other brother, James Madison Porter, �of Easton, Pa., was Secretary of War under President Tyler. A son of Gov. Porter is the

maintained under the auspices os the Chicago University, and Henry Clay acknowledged that in his efforts to organize a United States bank he drew largely on Merrill's ideas. It was this Samuel Merrill to whom Thaddeus Stevens, besore he had de- termined to locate in Pennsylvania, wrote the sollowing letter

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

the new turnpike. That highway, the first of its kind in all the United States, was an object of much public interest and private concern, The in- spectors moved slowly and stopped over night at Hunt Downing's (now Downingtown), where they had "ex- ceedingly good accommodations;" they proceeded next

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general