Preface. Prologue. 1. Pennsylvania Pioneer (1783-1809). Wagons in the wilderness -- Mercersburg -- Dickinson College. 2. Preface to Politics (1809-1829). Country lawyer -- State Assemblyman -- Counsel ...

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from the Susquehanna Valley.He was born and raised in Franklin County, and he lived in Lancaster for most of his adult life.News 8 went to LancasterHistory ...

In the James Buchanan Presidential Library, you’ll find an invitation to his Inauguration Ball in 1857, the first and only inauguration for a president from Pennsylvania. There are letters to and from ...

Until one sunny day in early June, the Scribbler never had visited Cove Gap, the place where James Buchanan, Lancaster’s only and Pennsylvania’s first president (1857-1861) opened his eyes for the ...

MR. CURTIS has undertaken in these two goodly volumes 1 to rehabilitate James Buchanan. Such a task was probably more congenial to Mr. Curtis than it would be to most American writers ; but even a ...

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from the Susquehanna Valley. He was born and raised in Franklin County, and he lived in Lancaster for most of his adult life. Sign up for our Newsletters News ...