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HARRY
STROHM BUCHANAN
The
city of Rosemead has to its credit many loyal, long-time citizens who worked
actively over a period of years for its incorporation, not the least of whom
was Harry Strohm Buchanan who worked on all three attempts at cityhood, and
who, when the dream became a reality, did not sit back and rest, but went on to
new responsibility to make cityhood for Rosemead a real step forward for all of
its citizens and for the general area.
Mr. Buchanan was a member of Rosemead’s first city council, and the
following year began a successful term as mayor. He is presently on the city planning commission,
a position he will hold for three more years, and is also a member of the
historical committee of the City of Rosemead.
He is a past member of the board of directors of the Rosemead Chamber of
Commerce, and in the past did a great deal of work, for about three years, on
behalf of the installation of sewers for the area, all in spite of the fact
that he is not a young man, but is giving his city of his experience gained by
maturity.
Born
on August 28, 1885, in Ida Grove, Iowa, Mr. Buchanan’s parents were Andrew
James and Clara (Strohm) Buchanan, natives of Indiana and Chicago, Illinois,
respectively. Mr. Buchanan attended
elementary school in Ida Grove, Iowa, high school in Durango, Colorado, and
graduated from the University of Colorado in 1908 with a Bachelor of Science
degree in electrical engineering.
After
graduating from college, Mr. Buchanan worked for the Telluride Power Co. and
Utah Power and Light Co. at Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah, for thirteen
years. He came to Los Angeles in 1923 to
work for the Department of Water and Power until his retirement in 1950. For the next two years he worked for the City
of Burbank, after which he was employed by the Fluor Corporation in Los Angeles
for about seven years.
Mr.
Buchanan is a member of Rosemead Masonic Lodge Number 702.
In
Salt Lake City on April 24, 1915, Harry S. Buchanan was married to the former
Miss Sara Strohm of Plainfield, Pennsylvania, and became the father of five
children: Alice Anita, who died in
infancy; Ben Andrew, a graduate of El Monte High School who lives in Trona with his wife and a young daughter, Janet—his other
daughter, Annette, living with the Buchanan’s and attending Muscatel School;
Mrs. George (Harriet) Hansen, a graduate of El Monte High School who lives in
Los Angeles and whose son by a previous marriage, Vernon Andrew Fueston, attends Rosemead High School; John Edgar, also a
graduate of El Monte High School who lives in West Covina with his wife and
adopted daughter, Shirley, who attends West Covina High School; and James
Silas, who lives in San Gabriel with his wife and infant son, Kenneth.
Mr.
Buchanan is an expert in photography, specializing in colored pictures. His favorite recreations are traveling in the
western United States, hiking and cabinet work.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume & Reference
Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple
City, by Robert P. Studer, Pages 459-460,
Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California.
1962.
© 2013 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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