Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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C. W. Buchanan

C. W. Buchanan, contractor and builder, Pasadena, was born in Indiana, February 
15, 1852.  His father, John A. Buchanan, a native of Pennsylvania, immigrated to 
Indiana during his boyhood and learned the trade of carpenter, joiner and 
millwright.  He served in the Mexican war.  For many years he was a prominent 
contractor in Indiana, and was president of the Builders Exchange.  During the 
last war he held various Government positions, and is now associated with his 
son in business.  The latter attended school in his native State and learned his 
trade with is father, and studied architecture, but gave it up on account of his 
health, and engaged in the mill supply trade; carried on the business 
successfully for six years and had a large trade.  On account of ill health he 
came to California, and in the spring of 1885 located in Pasadena, engaged in 
contracting and building, and since then has been prominently identified in 
erecting some of the finest structures in Pasadena, and has an enviable 
reputation as a contractor.  He is the president of the City Railroad Company, a 
member of the school board, and is a director and treasurer of the board of 
water commissioners of North Pasadena, and is actively identified with all 
public improvements of the town.
In 1873 Mr. Buchanan married Miss Delphine Robinson, a native of the city of 
Indianapolis.  They have three children: May, Charles Frederick and Jerome.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California � Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889 � Page 385
Transcribed by Pat Houser, May 25, 2006