stated that President Buchanan "returned to his home [Wheatland] following his term as President of the United States and prac- tised law at the Lancaster bar." James Buchanan was admitted to the bar, in Lancaster, November 17th, 1812, and practiced law here until he entered upon his political career

election as Governor. Also presided at a meeting held Mar. 16, 1831 in fur_ thering James Buchanan for Vice Pres. of the U. S. He also was presi- dent of meeting held Friday, Feb. 1, 1833 at which time Lancaster county was aroused at the threatened secession from the Union by South Carolina. The citizens

were James Humes and George Hamilton. Their furnace was purchased from John F. Steinman, Humes' assignee, in 1843, by Hon. James Buchanan (afterwards president) and John Reynolds of Cornwall, Lebanon County. �Buchanan visited the furnace in June, 1843. The iron made at this furnace had a high

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270