" 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

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

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

characteristic which appears to have stuck with him throughout his life. He jumped into things with both feet. He was only twenty years old and writing his first letter to the then U. S. Senator James Buchanan. But that did not stop Forney from recommending another young man for a position. The letter also would

HON. JASPER YEATES Born in Philadelphia, April 7, 1745. Received Bachelor 0f Arts and Master of Arts degrees from College of Philadelphia. Admitted to the Bar in 1765. Married in 1767 Sarah Burd, daughter of Colonel James Burd and Sarah Shippen Burd. Chairman of Committee of Correspondence of

penned those lines. James Logan and Andrew Hamilton were two subtle minds, mutually appreciative, matching wits for decades ... but that is another story. *February 6, 1955. L. L. B. means Logan Letter Book. All manuscripts referred to are to be found in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania unless