Buchanan, Alexander

BUCHANAN

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Date: 6/28/2021 at 23:11:00

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.611

ALEXANDER BUCHANAN
Alexander Buchanan, a well known farmer of Allen Township, residing on section 27, was born in Peoria County, Illinois, on the 19th of October, 1842. His father, John Buchanan, was a native of Scotland, born in Glasgow, and descended from a long line of Scotch ancestry. He came to the United States when a young man and was married in New York City to Miss Elida Wimple, who was born and reared in Holland. On coming to the west they located in Peoria County, Illinois, where the father secured one hundred and sixty acres of land and opened up a farm, to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted his energies throughout the remainder of his life. His wife also died in that county. They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters, of whom three are living, namely: Alexander, Hester and Helen.
In the county of his nativity, Alexander Buchanan passed the days of his boyhood and youth in the usual manner of farm boys, and there he was married in December 1860, to Miss Caroline Walsh, who was born in Ohio and was reared in that state and Illinois. The children born of this union are as follows: William, who follows farming; Mary, who is engaged in teaching school in Montana; Hester, the wife of Charles Silcott, of Lincoln Township; Edward, at home; Laura, the wife of Charles Deits, of Lincoln Township; and Edith, the wife of W. A. Simons, of the same township.
After farming in Peoria County, Illinois, for some years, Mr. Buchanan came to Warren County, Iowa, and purchased a farm in Palmyra Township, which he operated for two years and which he then traded for his present farm of seventy-two acres on section 27, Allen Township. He has since remodeled the residence, fenced the land and made many other improvements which add greatly to the value and attractive appearance of the place. Politically he follows in the footsteps of his father, always voting the Democratic ticket and he was called upon to serve as trustee of Palmyra Township for four years. Fraternally he is an honored member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Palmyra.