Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . AMES BUCHANAN, the fif-jteenth President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of the.^^ eastern ridge of the Allegha-nies, in Franklin Co., Penn.,onthe 23d of April, 179:. The placewhere the humble cabin of hislather st od was called Stony« Batter. It was a wild and ro-mantic spot in a gorge of the moun-tains, with towering sum
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . AMES BUCHANAN, the fif-jteenth President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of the.^^ eastern ridge of the Allegha-nies, in Franklin Co., Penn.,onthe 23d of April, 179:. The placewhere the humble cabin of hislather st od was called Stony« Batter. It was a wild and ro-mantic spot in a gorge of the moun-tains, with towering summits risinggrandly all around. His fatherwas a native of the north of Ireland;a poor man, who had emigrated in1783, with little property save hisown strong arms. Five years afterwards he marriedElizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer,and, with his young bride, plun:ied into the wilder-ness, staked his claim, reared his log-hut, opened aclearing with his axe, and settled down there to per-form his obscure part in the drama of life. In this se-cluded home, where James was born, he remainedfor eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectualadvantages. When James was eight years of age, hisfather removed to the villa
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