Forney would accept, Buck temporarily gave up the effort; but when he learned that his old friend was drinking heavily and had threatened to mortgage some Washington property which was the only remaining security for his family, he stepped in formally, arranged to act as trustee of the property for Mrs

from Christopher Hager, June 18, 1807. Deed Book Y, 3, p. 561, Lancaster County Court House. 14 For the Coleman family cf. Comi on Histi Research : Forges and Furnaces in the Province of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America, Philadelphia, 1944; H. M. J. Klein and Wm. Fi

-ordinators of traffic, of their times. �BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Achievements of Americans, Henry Howe, 1858. 2 Annals of Old Harrisburg, George Morgan, 1858. 3 History of Lancaster County, Rev. J. I. Mombert, 1868. 4 The Pennsylvania Railroad, William B. Sipes, 1875. 5 History of Lancaster County, Ellis and Evans

and understanding for his task. The proposed biography — no matter what its outcome — would be one in which a brilliant editor and politician had helped to shape some of the chapters. �ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Raines Dowdell was born December 3, 1917, in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, the son of Mr