Buchanan, Edward Young

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1828
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
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.
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