Buchanan, George (2)

Buchanan, George an associate Reformed minister, was born about 1783 at "the Barrens of York." He graduated at Dickinson College in 1805, and shortly after entered the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church in the city of New York. Having completed this course, he was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, December 1809. In 1810 he preached in the old court-house in Pittsburgh, and labored in the vacancies of the Monongahela Presbytery till April 1811. Soon after he accepted a call to Steubenville, Ohio., in which charge he labored for about forty-four years, until his death, October 14, 1855. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, IX, 4:138.