Cook County IL Archives News.....James Nelson Buchanan, 1849-1921 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
James Nelson Buchanan died Wednesday, June 8, at his home, 5555 Kenwood 
Avenue. He was born October 16, 1849, at the southeast corner of Adams and 
Dearborn Streets, his parents having come to Chicago in 1839. In 1871 he 
entered the contracting and real estate business. Mr. Buchanan was a member of 
the Thirty-sixth General Assembly of Illinois, representing the second 
district; charter member of Company A, 1st regiment, Illinois National Guard. 
He served in the regiment eight and one-half years and retired as Captain. He 
organized and was elected Colonel of a regiment during the Spanish-American 
War, but hostilities ceased before the regiment was called into service. He is 
survived by his widow, Isadore Berry Buchanan; a daughter Mrs. George H. 
Lamberton; a son, William N. Buchanan, and two brothers, D. C. H. Buchanan and 
E. P. Buchanan.

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Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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