the days of their planting and her part in the ceremony.2 James Buchanan purchased Wheatland in December, 1848, from Mr. William Morris Meredith. Buchanan became established at Wheatland in mid-May, 1849. 3 Knowing that he would be a political contender for the presidential nomination, he began to

family of the late W. U. Hensel, for- mally presented to Mr. Paul Heine, owner of the magnificent hostelry, a marble tablet to commemorate the visit to the old Cadwell House of Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, General Winfield S. Hancock and Theodore Roosevelt. These distinguished

States. About 1910, he and two other men organized a subscription drive to purchase a permanent meeting place for the local chapter, Zeta,' and in September, 1919, a house on James Street was purchased for $7,500.12 Theta Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity was chartered at Franklin and Marshall in

the author. The staff at the library of the Lancaster Newspapers Incorpor- ated was always more than willing to aid in procuring the news- papers used in this paper. The facilities of the Lancaster County Historical Society were indispensable as were the services of Mrs. Charles Lundgren, the Society