Biography of Alexander A. Buchanan, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Buchanan, Taylor, Million

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 355

Alexander A. Buchanan

This pioneer settler and enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of the vicinity
of Pine was born in Middlebrook, Virginia, in 1833, his parents being James
and Margaret Buchanan, likewise natives of Virginia. He continued one of the
circle around the parental hearthstone until eighteen years old, and received
such educational advantages as were to be had in the local schools, then
engaged in the pursuit of the carpenter's trade in different places in the
south. In 1852 he moved to western Iowa, and after two years more had been
devoted to carpenter work and building in that locality, he set out across the
plains and through the mountains to Placerville, California. Three years were
there devoted to mining, then he moved to Jackson county, Oregon, where for
half a decade he busied himself as a teamster. Returning then to the Golden
state, he spent there eight years more, this time engaged in farming, then he
farmed six years in his former place of abode, Jackson county, afterward
coming to Pine valley, Baker county.

In 1870 he located on a homestead five miles northeast of Pine post-office and
engaged in the dual occupation of diversified farming and cattle raising, in
which kindred industries he has been occupied ever since, achieving such
success as properly belongs to well directed, long continued effort and
judicious management.

In Stockton, California, in 1861, our subject married Nancy J., daughter of
Marion and Emily (Million) Taylor, natives of Missouri, both of whom died in
Oregon. To their union eight children have been born, William, John, Thomas,
Jennie, Robert, George, Margaret and one that died in infancy.