. His love for music had a great influence on Mrs. Johnston, and it prob- ably caused her to establish what is now St. Albans School. Dr. Hodges was born in Bristol, England, in the same year that Harriet Lane was born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania-1830. He acquired his love of music naturally, from his

children without respect to sex, and that preference shall be given to children resident in the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia whenever the number of applicants shall make it necessary or expedi- ent to give preference to some over others. Harriet Lane Johnston's will of

, the son of another of the President's sisters she was brought up by him with affectionate care. Mr. Buchanan's letters to his niece, when she was a school girl, and after Miss Lane had grown up, written almost daily during her absences from him, give a charming picture of the Buchanans' family life

ably on political matters, especially during his last year in the White House, when he urgently needed advice. With her numerous contacts in the highest echelons of the Democratic party Harriet Lane could not help but arrive at some of her own conclusions on matters such as slavery and secession. Such

Riggs. The birthplace site had been in the Shannon family since December 13, 1865, when D. M. B. Shannon and his wife Lena purchased twenty-two acres and eighty- eight perches from Mr. and Mrs. William McLellan for $337.50, as recorded in Franklin County Deed Book, volume 40, page 167. D. M. B. Shannon