Buchanan, Edward Young

Life span:

05/30/1811 to 01/20/1895

Dickinson Connection:

Class of 1828

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Life Summary

Full name:

Edward Young Buchanan

Place of Birth:

Mercersburg, PA

Birth Date Certainty:

Estimated

Death Date Certainty:

Exact

Gender:

Male

Race:

White

Sectional choice:

North

Origins:

Free State

No. of Siblings:

No. of Spouses:

No. of Children:

Family:

James Buchanan (father), Elizabeth Speer Buchanan (mother), Ann Elizabeth Foster (wife), James Buchanan (eldest brother), Stephen Foster (brother-in-law)

Education:

Dickinson (Carlisle College)

Other

Other Education:

Trinity College, CT

Occupation:

Clergy

Church or Religious Denomination:

Episcopalian

Note Cards

Edward Young Buchanan (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference

*Buchanan, Edward Young - Born May 30, 1811, at Mercersburg, Pa. ; studied theology in Pittsburg, Pa., and at the general seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church in New York ; 1832, ordained deacon ; 1835, ordained priest ; rector at Meadville, Pa. ; rector in Lancaster county ; 1855-95, rector of Trinity church, Oxford, Philadelphia ; D. D., Trinity college, Connecticut. Published “History of Trinity Church, Oxford,” “Sermons,” &c. Died 1895.

George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 82.

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