Biography of Verne E. Buchanan, pages 888/889.  History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.

Verne E. Buchanan

	Among the men of purpose and upright life who are demonstrating 
business and executive ability of a high order in the management of the 
affairs entrusted to them, the subject of this sketch takes high rank.  As 
general manager for the Auburn Printing Company, he is successfully 
carrying on the work so auspiciously begun by his father, the late J. 
Edgar Buchanan, and today he is numbered among the influential men of his 
community.  Verne E. Buchanan was born on January 31. 1892, at Auburn, 
DeKalb county, Indiana, and is the only son of John Edgar and Nellie D. 
(Brecbill) Buchanan.  J. Edgar Buchanan is represented elsewhere in this 
work by a personal review, therefore further space will not be given to 
the subject’s ancestral history at this point.  Verne W. Buchanan received 
a good common schools education in Noble and DeKalb counties, completing 
his public school study at the high school at Auburn.  He then spent two 
years in the study of journalism in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 
after which he returned to Auburn, being called upon at the time of his 
father’s death to assume the management of the Auburn Printing Company.  
This company issues the Auburn Dispatch and the Auburn Courier, semi-
weekly publications, and also the Evening Star, a daily paper, the three 
publications having large circulations throughout DeKalb county, and being 
numbered among the leading newspapers of this section of the state.  Mr. 
Buchanan is a busy man, giving his personal attention to every detail of 
the business, managing the affairs of the company so as to win the 
commendation of his associates in the concern.  The Auburn Printing 
Company is capitalized at twenty-five thousand dollars, the majority of 
the stock being owned by the subject of this sketch and his mother.  Its 
entire operation is entrusted to him, and he is proving a business man of 
sound judgement and wise discrimination.  Mr. Buchanan holds positive 
opinions regarding the great questions of the day, being a close reader 
and keen observer of men and events.  He is genial in his relations with 
his fellowmen, and those who know him best appreciate mostly his excellent 
qualities of character.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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