William Speer Buchanan

1805 - 1827  (~ 22 years)

• Name	William Speer Buchanan  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt. 1805	Cove Cap, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Education	1822	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  	Princeton University
  Graduation	1822	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  	Princeton University
  Occupation	1827  [3]
  	lawyer
  Death	19 Dec 1827	Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I131	Buchanan Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2024

  
  

  Father	James Buchanan,   b. 1761, Ramelton, Aughnish, Donegal, Ireland d. 11 Jun 1821, Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Speer,   b. Abt. 1767, Lancaster, Pennsylvania d. 14 May 1833, Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1788	Adams, Pennsylvania, USA   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  As the reader has already learned, Mr. Buchanan had two very promising younger brothers, one of whom died five years before he went abroad, and the other was living and in apparently good health when he left the country. The elder of these two, William Speer Buchanan, died at Chambersburg in his 22d year, on the nineteenth of December, 1827, a few months after his admission to the bar. He had graduated at Princeton in 1822, and studied his profession at Chambersburg and at the law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. His father died while he was still at Princeton: and a letter from his mother to his brother James, written in 1821, which lies before me, gives indications of his early character. MRS. BUCHANAN TO HER SON JAMES. July 3d, 1821. MY DEAR JAMES:–. . . . . A letter from William came to hand on the 11th of June, in which he expressed considerable anxiety to return home, that he might once again see his father and receive his last benediction; but upon receiving the melancholy information of his death, his desire of coming home is subsided. I am highly gratified by the reception from him of a letter of the 18th, in which is exhibited a resignation to and acquiescence in the will of Providence, together with appropriate sentiments on that melancholy occasion, far beyond his years. For this I bless the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Hoping you may be ever the care of an indulgent Providence, and all your conduct regulated by His unerring wisdom, I subscribe myself your affectionate MOTHER. source: Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1. New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1883. William Speer Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-two source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Charles Henry Browning, Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings, 2nd Edition, (Philadelphia, PA: Porter and Coates, 1891). [S4] John Guthrie Smith, Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock, (Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896). [S23] George Ticknor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1, (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1883).