Harriet Lane

Harriet Rebecca Lane ( born May 9, 1830 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, † July 3, 1903 in Narragansett, Rhode Iceland ) was the niece of U.S. President James Buchanan and served as Buchanan was unmarried, as First Lady of the United States from 1857 until 1861. namesake She was a Union gunboat during the American Civil war, which was destroyed in 1862 before Galveston (Texas ).

Harriet Lane was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane and Jane Buchanan Lane. The latter died when Lane was nine years old, his father died two years later.

She was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.