earnings.50 Stevens, though too radical to be accepted warmly by colleagues in the legal profession, was nevertheless the acknowledged leader of the Lancaster bar and one of the outstanding barristers in the State.51 He had the best law library in the region, and collected books on history and politics

participation outside of the city, dropping as low as 8.8 percent in 1822 and averaging only 33.3 percent during the 1820's. Removed by their remoteness from the center of political controversy, the city, and unwilling to support Jackson in 1824 and 1828, most of the rural voters simply ignored the politics of

- rent's Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition shows any evidence of extensive research into Stevens's role in the politics of Lancas- ter County, Pennsylvania, from his removal to Lancaster in 1842 until his death in August, 1868. Stevens's work as a member of the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of

impression of almost com- plete agreement between uncle and niece. Buchanan, stemming from the eighteenth century, did not rel- ish the idea of women taking an active part in politics. He objected to the Territorial constitution of Kansas for various reasons, among them the authorization of women to vote for

convinced that anyone who made an investment was entitled to a fair return on his money. This position blended well with his control of county politics which enabled him to secure his business interests. Shortly after the turn of the century Griest built a faltering young trolley system into a paying