Bios: WILLIAM H. BUCHANAN: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    WILLIAM H. BUCHANAN,
    
    [p. 646] a popular young man of Mahoningtown, well thought of in railroad
  circles, being at present the station agent at Lawrence Junction, was born in
  Allegheny City, Pa., May 11, 1866, and is a son of Andrew W. and Sarah
  (Highlands) Buchanan, the latter a native of Perrysville, Pa., and a daughter
  of Robert Highlands of Scotch descent. Andrew Buchanan was born in Allegheny
  Co., Pa. His parents both died when he was quite young, and threw him on his
  own resources, at the same time practically depriving him of the knowledge of
  the ancestry of the family, which he would have otherwise possessed, and which
  would have proven so valuable in this connection. He was reared and cared for
  by an uncle, who did the best he could for the homeless orphan until the lad
  was able to make his own way. Arriving at a suitable age he learned the
  carpenter's trade in Pittsburg, and followed it throughout the years that he
  spent in that city. On removing to Mahoningtown in 1871, he took up the
  pursuit of farming and continued to follow it successfully and with profit
  until his death in New Castle in 1892. In the family of our subject's parents
  there were eight children, the following six of whom survive: Jane, who
  married Christopher Hoover of New Castle; Margaret, who married Charles Stapf
  of Wampum; Martha; Alexander H. of New Castle; Mary, who married Joseph
  Mehard; and William H., the young man whose name heads this sketch.
    
    William H. Buchanan was five years of age when the family moved to the farm
  in North Beaver township, near Mahoningtown, and consequently his
  recollections do not extend back to the home in Pittsburg to any great
  extent; he went to school in the district school, in the borough schools of
  Mahoningtown, and finished his education with a course at the high school in
  New Castle. In 1888 Mr. Buchanan began his railroad life in the telegraph
  office, and since that time his rise has been regular and sure. When he was
  thoroughly qualified he was assigned to the yard office at Lawrence Junction,
  where he remained until August, 1893, when he was promoted to the station
  agency at Lawrence Junction, a position he is still filling with satisfaction
  to his employers. Being reliable and steady, quick to learn and prompt to act,
  it is only a question of time, or when a vacancy occurs, for him to receive
  the due recognition for his services in the interest of the company.
    
    Mr. Buchanan is an enthusiastic devotee of the wheel, and employs his spare
  time in taking trips on the excellent roads of the county, storing up energy
  and health, which are so necessary for complete business success. The
  Presbyterian Church has the good fortune to number him among its members, for
  he is an earnest worker in every legitimate line of action. He is a member of
  the Pythian Order, affiliating with Amazon Lodge, No. 336, of Mahoningtown.