retirement from the office of Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. Throughout his entire life he was active in political affairs and as the mentor of James Buchanan, he has been given prime credit for putting Mr. Buchanan in the White House. Later, differences arose between him and Buchanan and he became

of steel-framed spectacles. Nearly all were gray- headed, ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed, and snowy-whiskered. Judging from his conversation, every man was either a school mate or a chum of George M. Dallas and James Buchanan. They talked not of the crops nor of the weather. They seemed to be far more

, 1876 The house of Jacob Lindemuth in Manheim is today the Washing- ton House on Market Square. "JAMES BLACK, ESQ. of this city at the Prohibition State com- mittee meeting in Philadelphia yesterday was chosen as a Presidential Elector for the Ninth District." —September 6, 1876 Four years previous