Buchanan, Edward Young

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1828
    Full name
    Edward Young Buchanan
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    3
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    5
    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

    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.
    How to Cite This Page: "Buchanan, Edward Young," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5250.