Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . AMES BUCHANAN, the fif-teenth President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of theeastern ridge of the AUegha-nies, in Franklin Co., lenn.,onthe 23d of April, 1791. The jlacewhere the humble cabin of hisfather stuod was called StonyBatter. It was a wild and ro-mantic
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . AMES BUCHANAN, the fif-teenth President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of theeastern ridge of the AUegha-nies, in Franklin Co., lenn.,onthe 23d of April, 1791. The jlacewhere the humble cabin of hisfather stuod was called StonyBatter. 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 [xjor man, who had emigrated in783, with little property save hisown strong arms. Five years afterwards he marriedElizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer,and, with his young bride, plunged 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 liie d-rama of life. In this se-cluded home, where James was born, he remaineilfor eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectualadvantagis. When James was eight years of age, hisfather removed to the village of
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