Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . AMES BUCHANAN, the President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of the-,i^, eastern ridce of the Allegha-nies, in Franklin Co., Penn.,onthe 23d of April, 1791. The ;>lacewhere the humble cabin of hisfather stood was called StonyBatter. It was a wild and ro-manti
Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . AMES BUCHANAN, the President of the UnitedStates, was born in a smallfrontier town, at the foot of the-,i^, eastern ridce of the Allegha-nies, in Franklin Co., Penn.,onthe 23d of April, 1791. The ;>lacewhere the humble cabin of hisfather stood 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 poor man, who had emigrated in1783, with little property save hisown strong arms. Five years afterwards he marriedElizabeth Spear, the daughter cf a respectable farmer,and, with his young bride, plunjTed 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-LKuled liome, where James was born, he remainedfor eight years, enjoying but few social or intellectualadvantagi s. When James was eight years of age, hisfather removed to the
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