allow her $180 per annum, so as to make her income $600. Yours affectionately, James Buchanan P.S. I send this letter by General Thomas for greater security. �Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903) Painted in 1899. Photo Courtesy of A. Aubrey Bodine �Surgeon General Foltz shows us the self-assertiveness of

: Harriet Lane : (Later Harriet Lane Johnston) / by (Mrs. A.K.) Ida L. K. Hostetter. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Johnston, Harriet Lane, 1830-1903. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Women--Biography--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

of her life. It reads In the memory of the Founder of this House Harriet Lane Johnston and of her husband Henry Elliot Johnston and her two sons James Buchanan and Henry Elliot Johnston, Jr. And in perpetual witness of the love and sorrow of the wife and mother which quickened and deepened her

, Philadelphia. From a manuscript which was presented to James Buchanan, while Presi- dent of the United States, and, which is now in the possession of the Society, it appears that the family name originally was "Bucy Okyan." Anselan Bucy, or Fair Okyan was son to Okyan—provincial king of the south part of

achieve the highest position in the land, that of the Presidency of the United States, died at his home, Wheatland, near Lancaster city, on June 1st, 1868, sixty years ago. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of the Society, suggested that 1928 be officially designated as "Buchanan Year." A bronze statue of