Forney, John Weiss
journalist, author, was born Sept. 30, 1817, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a journalist of Philadelphia and Washington of prominence, and a politician, and secretary of the United States senate in 1861-68. He was the author of Life of General Hancock; Anecdotes of Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England and America; What I Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe; Letters from Europe; and Forty Years of American Journalism. He died Dec. 9, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.