John Buchanan, the next to the youngest son of Alexander, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1778, and was married to Margaret Fee, a daughter of Thomas Fee, one the first settlers at Felicity, where he purchased Bryan's survey of four hundred acres.
John's wife was a sister to the wives of Drs. Leavitt T. Pease and A. V. Hopkins, and of Mrs. George Gregg and also of the six Fee brothers, Capt. William, John, Elisha, Thomas, Robert, and Enos.
The children born to John and Margaret (Fee) Buchanan were Nancy Buchanan, married to Joseph Page; William Buchanan; Thomas J. Buchanan, the eminent lawyer and orator, who married a daughter of Governor Samuel Medary, was a representative from Clermont in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies of Ohio; Sarah Buchanan, married to ex-county commissioner John G. Gilfillen; Robert Buchanan; Jane Buchanan, married to Harrison Norris; Eliza Buchanan, married to William Norris; and John Fee Buchanan who died in 1844.
John Buchanan was a good farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an active Democrat in politics, a good citizen, and universally esteemed for the purity of his character and his high standing as an honest, upright man.
He was appointed an associate judge of the Clermont Common Pleas Court in 1850, and served a little over a year with Judges Elijah Larkin and Jonathan Johnson as colleagues, until 1851, when the new constitution went into eftect, and this office was abolished. He was out some sixty days in the war of 1812 in a cavalry company which was disbanded, owing to an overplus of volunteers, before it reached the scene of hostilities.
He died in 1861, in his eighty-third year, lamented and respected by the whole county as one of God's noblemen.
- Excerpt from History of Clermont County, Ohio (L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1880).
John's wife was a sister to the wives of Drs. Leavitt T. Pease and A. V. Hopkins, and of Mrs. George Gregg and also of the six Fee brothers, Capt. William, John, Elisha, Thomas, Robert, and Enos.
The children born to John and Margaret (Fee) Buchanan were Nancy Buchanan, married to Joseph Page; William Buchanan; Thomas J. Buchanan, the eminent lawyer and orator, who married a daughter of Governor Samuel Medary, was a representative from Clermont in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies of Ohio; Sarah Buchanan, married to ex-county commissioner John G. Gilfillen; Robert Buchanan; Jane Buchanan, married to Harrison Norris; Eliza Buchanan, married to William Norris; and John Fee Buchanan who died in 1844.
John Buchanan was a good farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an active Democrat in politics, a good citizen, and universally esteemed for the purity of his character and his high standing as an honest, upright man.
He was appointed an associate judge of the Clermont Common Pleas Court in 1850, and served a little over a year with Judges Elijah Larkin and Jonathan Johnson as colleagues, until 1851, when the new constitution went into eftect, and this office was abolished. He was out some sixty days in the war of 1812 in a cavalry company which was disbanded, owing to an overplus of volunteers, before it reached the scene of hostilities.
He died in 1861, in his eighty-third year, lamented and respected by the whole county as one of God's noblemen.
- Excerpt from History of Clermont County, Ohio (L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1880).
John Buchanan, the next to the youngest son of Alexander, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1778, and was married to Margaret Fee, a daughter of Thomas Fee, one the first settlers at Felicity, where he purchased Bryan's survey of four hundred acres.
John's wife was a sister to the wives of Drs. Leavitt T. Pease and A. V. Hopkins, and of Mrs. George Gregg and also of the six Fee brothers, Capt. William, John, Elisha, Thomas, Robert, and Enos.
The children born to John and Margaret (Fee) Buchanan were Nancy Buchanan, married to Joseph Page; William Buchanan; Thomas J. Buchanan, the eminent lawyer and orator, who married a daughter of Governor Samuel Medary, was a representative from Clermont in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies of Ohio; Sarah Buchanan, married to ex-county commissioner John G. Gilfillen; Robert Buchanan; Jane Buchanan, married to Harrison Norris; Eliza Buchanan, married to William Norris; and John Fee Buchanan who died in 1844.
John Buchanan was a good farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an active Democrat in politics, a good citizen, and universally esteemed for the purity of his character and his high standing as an honest, upright man.
He was appointed an associate judge of the Clermont Common Pleas Court in 1850, and served a little over a year with Judges Elijah Larkin and Jonathan Johnson as colleagues, until 1851, when the new constitution went into eftect, and this office was abolished. He was out some sixty days in the war of 1812 in a cavalry company which was disbanded, owing to an overplus of volunteers, before it reached the scene of hostilities.
He died in 1861, in his eighty-third year, lamented and respected by the whole county as one of God's noblemen.
- Excerpt from History of Clermont County, Ohio (L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1880).
John's wife was a sister to the wives of Drs. Leavitt T. Pease and A. V. Hopkins, and of Mrs. George Gregg and also of the six Fee brothers, Capt. William, John, Elisha, Thomas, Robert, and Enos.
The children born to John and Margaret (Fee) Buchanan were Nancy Buchanan, married to Joseph Page; William Buchanan; Thomas J. Buchanan, the eminent lawyer and orator, who married a daughter of Governor Samuel Medary, was a representative from Clermont in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies of Ohio; Sarah Buchanan, married to ex-county commissioner John G. Gilfillen; Robert Buchanan; Jane Buchanan, married to Harrison Norris; Eliza Buchanan, married to William Norris; and John Fee Buchanan who died in 1844.
John Buchanan was a good farmer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an active Democrat in politics, a good citizen, and universally esteemed for the purity of his character and his high standing as an honest, upright man.
He was appointed an associate judge of the Clermont Common Pleas Court in 1850, and served a little over a year with Judges Elijah Larkin and Jonathan Johnson as colleagues, until 1851, when the new constitution went into eftect, and this office was abolished. He was out some sixty days in the war of 1812 in a cavalry company which was disbanded, owing to an overplus of volunteers, before it reached the scene of hostilities.
He died in 1861, in his eighty-third year, lamented and respected by the whole county as one of God's noblemen.
- Excerpt from History of Clermont County, Ohio (L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1880).
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