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Album of Types of Paintings and Portraits of Penn, Franklin and Buchanan on Paper Money

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History of the Life, Administration and Times of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States: Great Border Dissensions, and Beginning of the War for the Union, vol. 15, The Republic: Or, A History of the United States of America in the Admini

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The Prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan President of the United States, in Behalf of Kansas, Asking for a Postponement of All the Land Sales in that Territory, and for Other Relief; Together with Correspondence and Other Documents Setting Forth Its

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Nehemiah Fountain (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Nehemiah Fountain,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/f/ed_fountainN.htm.

Nehemiah Fountain was born in Denton, in Caroline County, Maryland in December 1834, one of the five children and the only son of Nehemiah and Lydia Fountain. His father was a shoemaker and a prominent citizen of the small town. The son was educated locally and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1854. Good looking and elegant in dress, he was an excellent and popular student. He was a member of Zeta Psi and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and graduated near the top of his class.

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David Harrison Walton (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “David Harrison Walton,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_waltonDH.htm.

David Harrison Walton was born on October 21, 1830 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, near the town of Woodstock. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and graduated with his class in the early summer of 1854. He was a superior student and a member of the Union Philosophical Society. Following his undergraduate years, he studied law in Lexington, Virginia.

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Joseph Benton Stayman (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Joseph Benton Stayman,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/s/ed_staymanJB.htm.

Joseph B. Stayman was born on July 18, 1832 in Hampden Township, Pennsylvania to Christian and Eliza Stayman. His father served for thirty-one years as a trustee of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The younger Stayman attended the preparatory school there and then entered the college proper in 1850 with the class of 1854. He withdrew before graduating and went into business in nearby Mechanicsburg.

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John Peach (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “John Peach,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/p/ed_peachJ.htm.

John Peach was born in the family home "Ash Grove" near Mitchellville, in Prince George's County, Maryland on April 18, 1835, the son of Samuel and Caroline Hamilton Peach. He prepared at a private school nearby and entered the class of 1854 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1852. He was the youngest in the class but a fine student and a member of the Belle Lettres Society. He graduated with his class and enrolled at the University of Maryland Medical School, earning his M.D. in 1858.

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