Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . FRANKLIN JAMES BUCHANAN. FEANKLIN PIEECB. 67 held in New York, just at this time, in a great hall made ofglass, which was known as The Crys-tal Pal-ace. Pierce was in of-fice one term ; at the end of that timehe went back home to Con-cord, Mas-sa-chu-setts, where helived a qui-et life un-til his death, on Oc-to-ber 8th, 1867. 68 LIVES OP THE PEESIDENTS. JAMES BU-CHAN-AK A STEONG, brave, young man from Ire-land was thefa-ther of our fif-teenth pres-i-dent. He had come here in1783, and bought a small farm in Penn^sy


Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . FRANKLIN JAMES BUCHANAN. FEANKLIN PIEECB. 67 held in New York, just at this time, in a great hall made ofglass, which was known as The Crys-tal Pal-ace. Pierce was in of-fice one term ; at the end of that timehe went back home to Con-cord, Mas-sa-chu-setts, where helived a qui-et life un-til his death, on Oc-to-ber 8th, 1867. 68 LIVES OP THE PEESIDENTS. JAMES BU-CHAN-AK A STEONG, brave, young man from Ire-land was thefa-ther of our fif-teenth pres-i-dent. He had come here in1783, and bought a small farm in Penn^syl-va-ni-a; so welldid he do that he soon bought a store as well; and when,on A-pril 23d, 1791, at Cove Gap, lit-tle James was born, hisfa-ther was quite a rich man. He sent his son to the bestschools and he was just six-teen years old when lie went toDick-in-son col-lege. Here he took first place with ease. In1809, when he left col-lege, he be-gan the stud-y of law. Inthe War of 1813 he served in the ar-my; and at the close ofthe war his state chose him to help make her laws. Hewas a


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