Capt. Alexander BUCHANAN

1760 - 1810  (50 years)

• Name	Alexander BUCHANAN
  Title	Capt.
  Born	1760	Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 May 1810	Meadville, Crawford County, PA
  Notes	(1) Buchanan, A. W. Patrick, The Buchanan Book - The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q. C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan, Montreal, Canada: privately published, 1911, pp. 455-456: Captain Alexander Buchanan, was born in Ireland in 1760, and also emigrated to Cumberland co. He was an officer in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolution, and married, 30th March, 1796, Elizabeth Leonard, born 4th March, 1772. He removed, in 1797, to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he died on the 8th May, 1810, leaving issue: - I. Robert Buchanan, of "Green Hill," Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, born Westmoreland co., Pennsylvania, on the 15th January, 1797, and settled, in 1811, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married, 31st October, 1822, Harriet Susan Lee-Wright Browning, born 2nd May, 1802, only daughter of Thomas Browning, of Mason co., Kentucky; and died on the 23rd April, 1879, having had issue: - Charles MacAllister Buchanan, of Clifton, Cincinnati, born 6th January, 1835; married, 9th June, 1857, Emily Cornelia, eldest daughter of A. J. Wheeler, of Clifton, Cincinnati, and had, Robert Buchanan, of Toledo, Ohio. II. James, died s.p. III. Mary, married William Compton, and had issue. IV. Alexander Buchanan, married Caroline Compton, and had issue: - (1) William Buchanan, died in 1894, without issue; (2) Edward Buchanan, White Cloud, Kansas; (3) Mary, married M. E. Shrom, whose daughter, Clara S., is married to Edwin S. Templeton, Attorney-at-Law, Greenville, Pennsylvania; (4) Elizabeth, married _____ Smith; (5) Colonel Robert Buchanan, St. Louis, Missouri; (6) Rebecca, married, in 1869, Corinth J. T. Bensen, Meadville, Pennsylvania, and had issue, Caroline Gertrude Bensen and Mary Buchanan Bensen, Meadville; (7) Sarah, married J. C. Smith, Meadville; (8) David Buchanan, Meadville; (9) Alexander Buchanan, died in 1866, without issue. V. Thomas Buchanan, died s.p. VI. Sarah, married to Dr. Edward Ellis, Meadville, and had issue: - Ruth Elizabeth, who married Revd. Morrison Byllesby, Pittsburg, and had issue. VII. John Buchanan, who married and left one daughter.
  Person ID	I40917	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert BUCHANAN,   b. of County Tyrone, Ireland [now Northern Ireland]
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F17541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth LEONARD,   b. 4 Mar 1772
  Married	30 Mar 1796
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F17542	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart