Biography of Leander Buchanan, page 562 / 563.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Leander Buchanan, farmer and stock-raiser, Fairfield Township, was born in 
Holmes County, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1831, the third son of David and Lydia (Tribby) 
Buchanan.  He remained with his parents till manhood, and in 1854 went to 
Winchester, Tenn., for health, but came to De Kalb County, Ind., the same 
fall.  When seventeen years of age he took a severe cold, which settled on 
his lungs, and for several years he was unable to work, and has never fully 
recovered from its effects.  He was married Oct. 18, 1860, to Clara Chilcote, a native of Seneca County, Ohio, daughter of Humphrey and Christiana (Snivley) Chilcote, early settlers of Ohio, who moved to De Kalb County in 1847.  After his marriage Mr. Buchanan settled on a farm in Fairfield Township, where he lived two and a half yeas, and then sold it an bought the one where he now lives, which contains eighty acres of the choicest land in the township, all well cultivated.  In 1853 he began to learn the carpenter’s trade and followed it several years in connection with farming.  He has 
always taken an active interest in the public affairs of the county, and has 
assisted materially in building up all enterprises of benefit to the 
community.  To Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have been born three children, but one 
of whom is living---Elmira Ellen.  Mary Vienna died at the age of fifteen 
years, and one died in infancy.  In politics Mr. Buchanan is a Republican.  
He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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