Husband John McFarren Buchanan 1 2 3 4
Born: 25 Apr 1849 or 1851 - near Florence, Washington Co, PA 2 5
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Died: 22 Nov 1909 4 5
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Father: Thomas Chambers Buchanan ( -1852) 6 7
Mother: Elizabeth Anne Mayhew ( - ) 5
Marriage: 12 Oct 1892 5
• Additional Image: John M. Buchanan.
• Additional Image: John M. Buchanan.
Wife Jane M. "Jennie" Mitchell 4 8
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Died: Aft 1926
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Father: Shannon R. Mitchell ( - ) 5 9
Mother: Annie E. Stokes ( - ) 5 9
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1 M Edward D. Buchanan 5
Born: 14 Aug 1893 5
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2 M Thomas C. Buchanan 4 5
Born: 12 Nov 1895 - Beaver, Beaver Co, PA 4 5
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3 F Anna Buchanan 5
Born: 23 Jan 1897 5
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4 M John Mitchell Buchanan 5
Born: 29 Jun 1898 5
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5 M Joseph Ross Buchanan 10
Born: 13 Jul 1900 10
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6 F Ruth Buchanan 5
Born: 4 Feb 1903 5
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General Notes: Husband - John McFarren Buchanan
His father died when his son was an infant. With the exception of the first five years of his life spent in and near Florence, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where his forefathers had resided since 1791, and two years spent in Fairview, West Virginia, he was reared in the home of an uncle, Joseph K. Buchanan, in Hanover township, Beaver County. He was prepared for college by the Hon. Thomas Nicholson and Rev. J. P. Moore, chiefly by recitations made during winter evenings, and was graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1869. Immediately after graduation he was entered as a student of law in the office of the Hon. Samuel B. Wilson, and reaching the requisite legal age, was admitted to the bar on motion of Edward B. Daugherty, Esq., Sept. 2, 1872, having supported himself in the meanwhile by teaching. In 1874 he was elected district attorney, as a Democrat, by a majority of 94 and was re-elected in 1877 by 303 majority. Mr. Buchanan very soon after his admission placed himself among the leading attorneys of the county, and was identified with its most important litigation.
His father died in 1852, on the overland route to California, and his mother removed to Fairview, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1856, near where her father was living. The son remained there with his mother and sister until June 1, 1858, when he was taken by a paternal uncle, Joseph K. Buchanan, to his home in Hanover township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he attended the district school and worked in vacation on the farm of his uncle. In the fall and winter of 1864-65, he attended The Collegiate Institute, East Liberty, Pennsylvania, taught by Rev. J. P. Moore, a brother-in-law of his uncle above-named. In the winter of 1866 he recited in the evenings to Thomas Nicholson, Esq., a famous teacher and well known citizen of Frankfort Springs. In April, 1867, he entered Washington and Jefferson College, then under the presidency of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D. Mr. Buchanan was aided in his efforts by his uncle, Joseph K. Buchanan, and by his mother, and by tutoring and teaching and the like through college, graduating in the class of 1869. On December 1, 1869, Mr. Buchanan was entered as a law student in the law office of Sam B. Wilson, Esq., one of the most eminent lawyers of the Beaver Bar, and was admitted to the Bar September 2, 1872.
In November, 1874, Mr. Buchanan received the Democratic nomination for District Attorney in the strong Republican county of Beaver and was elected by 94 votes, and in 1877, was re-elected by 303 majority. During the six years of office, Mr. Buchanan never had an indictment quashed nor amended in a single word; nor did he have a grand jury sit over two days at a time,-the Quarter Sessions Court and Grand Jury then sat at the same time. Thereafter Mr. Buchanan enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He was president of the First National Bank, Beaver, Pennsylvania, and of the Beaver Valley Traction Company, the Beaver & Vanport Electric Street Railway, a director in the First National Bank, Rochester, Pennsylvania, in the Bridgewater Bridge, Sharon Bridge, New Brighton Water Company, The Valley Electric Light Company and in various other companies. He was also attorney for the Pennsylvania Company. Mr. Buchanan was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver and active in its councils.
In 1896, Mr. Buchanan was the nominee of the Democratic party for Judge of the Thirty-sixth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and received the largest vote ever received by a Democrat in that District, but failed in the election in that strong Republican district.