Cemetery in Baltimore, in the lot be longing to the family of Henry Johnston. The stone which marks the grave of Harriet Lane and her husband is a Celtic cross with an early Irish design intertwined, the cross is about eleven feet high, and in the center of the arms of the cross is a small trefle

executors and that they should turn all of the residue over, "absolutely," to the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children of Baltimore City. However, �if her brother-in-law, Josiah Lee Johnston, would survive her and would file in Baltimore City orphans court within six months after her death a written

, Washington, D.C., for July 5, 1903, commented as fol- lows: Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the niece of President James Bu- chanan and lady of the White House during his Presidency, was a person in whom the people of our nation took a kindly interest for half a century. This regard is due not alone to the fact

, descendant of an old Virginia family. Jane's father, the elder James Buchanan, was a merchant, who had acquired wealth in trading at the Mercersburg stop on the great highway from east to west. Elliot Lane was also a merchant and his father-in-law transferred much of his trade 'to this son-in-law, Jane's

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

. His love for music had a great influence on Mrs. Johnston, and it prob- ably caused her to establish what is now St. Albans School. Dr. Hodges was born in Bristol, England, in the same year that Harriet Lane was born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania-1830. He acquired his love of music naturally, from his

admit, but not enough to entice an American Prin- cess from her home! God bless you, my dear Hattie, and believe me, Yours devotedly, George [Plitt] March 12, 1858 Miss Lane. The original of this letter is preserved as pages 1180-1182 in the Harriet Lane Johnston Papers in the Library of Congress

interlineations which appear to be in his own writing. The letter is preserved by the Lancaster County Historical Society. Under date of the next day Harriet Lane Johnston replied as follows. H.B. Swarr, Esq: Dear Sir:—Such papers of my dear uncle's as were not removed during my temporary absence from Wheatland