BIOGRAPHY: from 'An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties'; Interstate Publishing Company, 1906, pages 446, 842-843
http://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte
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Source: Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest--An Essay by Carolyn Marr
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/marr.htm
Washington Historical Quarterly, 1920, Volume XL
Death of Doctor Buchanan.
Charles Milton Buchanan, M. D., was one of the most winsome, lovable, efficient and honest, among all the men who have helped to make history in the State of Washington. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington City, on October 11, 1868. Soon after finishing his medical education he accepted the position as resident physician on the Indian Reservation at Tulalip (near Everett), Washington, in 1894, which position had just been vacated by his uncle, Dr. Edwin Buchanan. He entered upon the work with an enthusiasm unusual in such cases. He studied the Indians' language, traditions and history. His unselfish devotion was so much appreciated that when the Government began to dispense with agents and other employees their duties were placed upon the willing shoulders of Doctor Buchanan. He remained resident physician and maintained an effective hospital. He organized the school so well that he was invited to Washington City to explain his plan to a conference of Indian school superintendents. In addition he gradually became agent for neighboring reservations such as Swinomish, Lummi, and Suquamish. A volume could be written of his loyal services and manifold experiences during a quarter of a century. He taught many Indians how to work and live. He protected them from schemers and fought off rascals of every kind. He published much valuable information about the Indians in Government records and in magazines. His daughter was a school teacher in Everett. She contracted scarlet fever. Mrs. Buchanan hastened to her side while the Doctor remained at his post. Small-pox on the reservation increased the heavy duties while influenza and pneumonia patients filled the little hospital. Night and day he worked and no word of complaint escaped his lips though he was himself suffering great pain. The break came. He was hurried to a hospital in Seattle but did not survive the serious operation. He died at 12:30 a. m. Sunday, January 18, 1920. Two of his friends, Edward Mills, of Everett, and D. H. Evans, of Seattle, are helping the Indians to raise a fund to place on the Tulalip lawn in front of the school a memorial boulder and tablet. This will be a constant reminder of the work and worth of the Good Doctor.
http://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte
--and--
Source: Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest--An Essay by Carolyn Marr
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/marr.htm
Washington Historical Quarterly, 1920, Volume XL
Death of Doctor Buchanan.
Charles Milton Buchanan, M. D., was one of the most winsome, lovable, efficient and honest, among all the men who have helped to make history in the State of Washington. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington City, on October 11, 1868. Soon after finishing his medical education he accepted the position as resident physician on the Indian Reservation at Tulalip (near Everett), Washington, in 1894, which position had just been vacated by his uncle, Dr. Edwin Buchanan. He entered upon the work with an enthusiasm unusual in such cases. He studied the Indians' language, traditions and history. His unselfish devotion was so much appreciated that when the Government began to dispense with agents and other employees their duties were placed upon the willing shoulders of Doctor Buchanan. He remained resident physician and maintained an effective hospital. He organized the school so well that he was invited to Washington City to explain his plan to a conference of Indian school superintendents. In addition he gradually became agent for neighboring reservations such as Swinomish, Lummi, and Suquamish. A volume could be written of his loyal services and manifold experiences during a quarter of a century. He taught many Indians how to work and live. He protected them from schemers and fought off rascals of every kind. He published much valuable information about the Indians in Government records and in magazines. His daughter was a school teacher in Everett. She contracted scarlet fever. Mrs. Buchanan hastened to her side while the Doctor remained at his post. Small-pox on the reservation increased the heavy duties while influenza and pneumonia patients filled the little hospital. Night and day he worked and no word of complaint escaped his lips though he was himself suffering great pain. The break came. He was hurried to a hospital in Seattle but did not survive the serious operation. He died at 12:30 a. m. Sunday, January 18, 1920. Two of his friends, Edward Mills, of Everett, and D. H. Evans, of Seattle, are helping the Indians to raise a fund to place on the Tulalip lawn in front of the school a memorial boulder and tablet. This will be a constant reminder of the work and worth of the Good Doctor.
BIOGRAPHY: from 'An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties'; Interstate Publishing Company, 1906, pages 446, 842-843
http://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte
--and--
Source: Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest--An Essay by Carolyn Marr
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/marr.htm
Washington Historical Quarterly, 1920, Volume XL
Death of Doctor Buchanan.
Charles Milton Buchanan, M. D., was one of the most winsome, lovable, efficient and honest, among all the men who have helped to make history in the State of Washington. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington City, on October 11, 1868. Soon after finishing his medical education he accepted the position as resident physician on the Indian Reservation at Tulalip (near Everett), Washington, in 1894, which position had just been vacated by his uncle, Dr. Edwin Buchanan. He entered upon the work with an enthusiasm unusual in such cases. He studied the Indians' language, traditions and history. His unselfish devotion was so much appreciated that when the Government began to dispense with agents and other employees their duties were placed upon the willing shoulders of Doctor Buchanan. He remained resident physician and maintained an effective hospital. He organized the school so well that he was invited to Washington City to explain his plan to a conference of Indian school superintendents. In addition he gradually became agent for neighboring reservations such as Swinomish, Lummi, and Suquamish. A volume could be written of his loyal services and manifold experiences during a quarter of a century. He taught many Indians how to work and live. He protected them from schemers and fought off rascals of every kind. He published much valuable information about the Indians in Government records and in magazines. His daughter was a school teacher in Everett. She contracted scarlet fever. Mrs. Buchanan hastened to her side while the Doctor remained at his post. Small-pox on the reservation increased the heavy duties while influenza and pneumonia patients filled the little hospital. Night and day he worked and no word of complaint escaped his lips though he was himself suffering great pain. The break came. He was hurried to a hospital in Seattle but did not survive the serious operation. He died at 12:30 a. m. Sunday, January 18, 1920. Two of his friends, Edward Mills, of Everett, and D. H. Evans, of Seattle, are helping the Indians to raise a fund to place on the Tulalip lawn in front of the school a memorial boulder and tablet. This will be a constant reminder of the work and worth of the Good Doctor.
http://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00inte
--and--
Source: Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest--An Essay by Carolyn Marr
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/marr.htm
Washington Historical Quarterly, 1920, Volume XL
Death of Doctor Buchanan.
Charles Milton Buchanan, M. D., was one of the most winsome, lovable, efficient and honest, among all the men who have helped to make history in the State of Washington. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington City, on October 11, 1868. Soon after finishing his medical education he accepted the position as resident physician on the Indian Reservation at Tulalip (near Everett), Washington, in 1894, which position had just been vacated by his uncle, Dr. Edwin Buchanan. He entered upon the work with an enthusiasm unusual in such cases. He studied the Indians' language, traditions and history. His unselfish devotion was so much appreciated that when the Government began to dispense with agents and other employees their duties were placed upon the willing shoulders of Doctor Buchanan. He remained resident physician and maintained an effective hospital. He organized the school so well that he was invited to Washington City to explain his plan to a conference of Indian school superintendents. In addition he gradually became agent for neighboring reservations such as Swinomish, Lummi, and Suquamish. A volume could be written of his loyal services and manifold experiences during a quarter of a century. He taught many Indians how to work and live. He protected them from schemers and fought off rascals of every kind. He published much valuable information about the Indians in Government records and in magazines. His daughter was a school teacher in Everett. She contracted scarlet fever. Mrs. Buchanan hastened to her side while the Doctor remained at his post. Small-pox on the reservation increased the heavy duties while influenza and pneumonia patients filled the little hospital. Night and day he worked and no word of complaint escaped his lips though he was himself suffering great pain. The break came. He was hurried to a hospital in Seattle but did not survive the serious operation. He died at 12:30 a. m. Sunday, January 18, 1920. Two of his friends, Edward Mills, of Everett, and D. H. Evans, of Seattle, are helping the Indians to raise a fund to place on the Tulalip lawn in front of the school a memorial boulder and tablet. This will be a constant reminder of the work and worth of the Good Doctor.
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Per gravestone, Charles Milton Buchanan was cremated and ashes placed in gravesite of parents.
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