Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Guide to central Pennsylvania Lutheran church records : no. 1: a guide to genealogical resources in the parish records of baptisms, marriages, and burials, as well as to translations and copies in print and in public institutions
"Including chapters on how to operate a homebased 'house histories' business."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
Contents
Chapters: Inspecting the house and site // The paper search/written records // The paper search /graphic records // The final analysis // Your own business // Appendices: Resources // where to write // Additional information
Summary
The book explains how to establish the history of a house by examining the building style and materials and searching for clues in old documents, and offers suggestions for running a home-based house histories business.
produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service.
ISBN
0912627182 (pbk.)
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
95, [1] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Series
Handbook ; 124
Notes
Bibliography: p. [96]
Contents
Ironmaking in early America / by W. David Lewis -- Hopewell Furnace, the story of a 19th century ironmaking community / by Walter Hugins -- Guide to Hopewell.
The story of president James Buchanan's lost love. He was engaged to be married to Ann Coleman in 1819. She broke off the engagement and told Buchanan she never wanted to see him again. Within a few months she died suddenly. Buchanan never married and kept her portrait in his bedroom until his death.
A biographical history of Lancaster County : being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county : as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character
Copy 2 from the Preident James Buchanan Collection. Front cover detatched, back cover missing. Inscribed on flyleaf Harriet Jane Johnston, Wheatland 1868. B96.164.1.
Register of federal United States military records : a guide to manuscript sources available at the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City and the National Archives in Washington, DC
