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DR. J. ROBERT BUCHANAN
From the 1887 History
of Vernon County, Missouri, p. 626-627:
Dr. J. Robert Buchanan
(Physician and Surgeon,
Nevada).
Doubtless one of the greatest causes of
Dr. Buchanan's professional success is due to the excellent educational
advantages which he enjoyed in growing up--opportunities of inestimable
value to any calling in life when property improved. Reared in a
commonwealth of good schools, he supplemented his primary education with
an attendance at the Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University, at
Indianapolis, Ind., following which he went to Pike county, Mo., in
1865. In 1866 he took up the study of medicine at Indianapolis
under Dr. R. T. Brown, with whom he read for some time, but his
preparatory studies were completed under Dr. J. S. Linn, of Pike county,
whose own thoroughness and efficiency in the practice of medicine
enabled him to give his pupil superior instruction. Later young
Buchanan attended the St. Louis Medical College and completed his course
in 1872, graduating in that year thoroughly fitted to commence at once
the practice of his profession. This he did, opening an office at
Clarksville, where he remained until locating at Nevada in 1881.
Since then he has drawn around him a good patronage, and it is a fact
that no obstacle which human exertion could overcome has prevented him
from administering to the wants of the afflicted when called upon to do
so. Dr. Buchanan was born in Trimble county, Ky., May 12, 1845,
and was the youngest of eight children in the family of his parents,
Evan and Lucinda (Bryan) Buchanan, both Kentuckians by birth. The
former remained in the Blue Grass State engaged in farming until 1850,
when he moved to Montgomery county, Mo., and there he died in November,
1885. Mrs. Buchanan, his wife, had seven brothers, and five of
them were physicians. She died in Montgomery county December 29,
1856. Perhaps it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the
subject of this sketch should leave the home farm where he was brought
up to enter upon a professional life inasmuch as so many of his uncles
devoted themselves to the science of medicine. At any rate the
wisdom of his choice has been manifested in more recent years. In
1876, Dr. B. Married Miss Ella V. Hicks, of Tennessee, whose death
occurred in 1880, and in 1883 Miss Emma L. Ritchey, of Illinois, became
his second wife. The Doctor is a member of the A. O. U. W.
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