-1741) who was at that time the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The "townstead" grew rapidly and became a borough on May 1, 1742. By 1800, Lancaster was described in Phila- delphia as "the greatest inland town in the United States, situated in a very rich, improved and populous country." See

1787 and was currently (since 1794) a United States Senator. All then was in readiness for the campaign preceding the election which would decide whether Thomas McKean or James Ross was to be inaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania at Lancaster in Decem- ber of the year seventeen hundred ninety-nine. It

thought of themselves as possibilities now pressed their claims through their friends, and sectionalism, which it was Buchanan's main object to eliminate by his Cabinet selections, ran wild. Every newspaper spread speculation and built false hopes or �JOHN W. FORNEY JOHN ADAMS APPLETON Forney (1817-1881

of 1834, the new bridge at Columbia was opened for traffic, as previously mentioned; with Mr. Buchanan being elected the next month to the United States Senate, where he was destined to serve until 1845. With a pair of men like Messrs. Buchanan and Cameron at the throttle of the Mount Joy Road, the

author of, among other things, The Story of Wheatland and Pennsylvania Politics, 1817-1832. The present paper, which grew out of a biography of Buchanan which Dr. Klein i's now writing, was read at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Lan- caster, October 23, 1953. 1 Review by

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best