LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO 
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File Contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Name: K. Stevens
Email: 67buick@adelphia.net
Date: April 19, 2004
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History of Lawrence Co., Ohio by Hardesty (1882)

JAMES E. BUCHANAN – commenced the boot and shoe business at what is known as the 
Opera House in 1877, and subsequently removed to his present location, 157 Third street, 
opposite postoffice, in 1881.  He built the buildings he now occupies at a cost of $5,000.  
The value of the property has since increased one-half, and the location is one of the most 
desirable in the city.  He usually carries stock value at from $10,000 to $15,000.  He has a 
very extensive jobbing trade.  Mr. Buchanan was married at St. Charles, Kane county, 
Illinois, 1879, to Emma Collins, who was born in Kane county.  Her parents, John and 
Samantha Jane Collins, still reside there.  Mr. Buchanan was born in the city of Ironton, and 
his parents, George Francis and Elvira (Gholson) Buchanan, still reside in Ironton.  He was 
born 1854.  He has one child, Collins, born in November, 1880.  Address, Ironton, Lawrence 
county, Ohio.