Buchanan, James Pond

Other Events:

• 1930 Census: 1930, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Obituary: 12 Jun 1964; Appleton Post Crescent

Notes:

1930 Census:
Gus Buchanan60
Josephine Buchanan49
William E Buchanan27
Josephine Buchanan22
Betty Jean Buchanan13
James Pond Buchanan9
Marthia Ruscher24
Alice Perleberg18

Obituary:
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finance division of Marathon. He was made assistant director of planning in 1963. He was also a director of the Appleton Wire Works and Outagamie Corporation. The son of the late G. E. Buchanan and Mrs. Josephine Pond Buchanan, he was born at Neenah June 9, 1920. He was educated in Appleton grade and high schools. He attended Northwestern Military and Naval Academy at Lake Geneva, Wis., from 1936 to 1938, and Lawrence College from 1938 to 1940. After service in the U. S. Army from 1943 to 1946, he received a bachelor of science degree in business and engineering administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. He joined Northern Paper Mills upon graduation. Active Leader In Green Bay, he was Community Chest campaign chairman in 1950, Chest vice-president in 1951 and president in 1952. He was a director and chairman of the building committee of Bellin Memorial Hospital from 1950 through 1954, and a director of the Brown County Civic Music Association from 1951 to 1953. He received the Green Bay Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award in 1952. He and his family moved to Neenah when he joined Marathon in 1954 and resided at 569 E. Wisconsin Avenue. In the Fox Cities Buchanan was a member of the building committee of Appleton Memorial Hospital from 1955 through 1958, chairman of the environs gifts committee of the Lawrence College Development Fund in 1956 and a director of the Community Chest of Neenah-Menasha since 1959, vice-president in 1961 and president in 1962. Headed Boy Scouts He was president-elect of the Neenah Rotary Club, of which he had been a member since 1960. He had just been elected president of the Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America, an organization he had served in various capacities since 1956. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Neenah, a trustee of the church from 1959 through 1961, and had recently been elected an elder of the church. He was currently state president of the Wisconsin Mental Health Association and county chairman of the Mental Health Association. He was also a director of Valley Telecasting Co. in Green Bay when it was organized. He is survived by his wife, the former Marjorie Harkins, whom he married May 27, 1943; one son, John; three daughters, Barbara Lynn, Nancy Alison and Linda Christine; his mother, Mrs. G. E. Buchanan; one brother, William E.; and two sisters, Mrs. F. J. Lenfestey of De Pere, and Mrs. Charles L. Mc- Clure.
Friday, June 12, 1964 Appleton-Post-Crescent, Pages A-1 & A-5

APPLETON POST-CRESCENT Monday, June 15,1964
James P. Buchanan The whole community of the Fox River Valley will feel the loss through an early death of James Buchanan, for a number of years a resident of the Green Bay area and for the last ten years of the Fox Cities. Mr. Buchanan's community contributions were extensive. He well deserved the 1952 Distinguished Service award of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Green Bay but since that time his interests and work on behalf of a variety of community projects expanded. Despite heavy business responsibility and a growing young family he was a leader in c h u r c h affairs, service clubs, hospital and medical projects, music and educational organizations and Scout groups. Mr. Buchanan combined his leadership ability with a deep sense of personal responsibility and a quiet and reasoned approach to the myriad problems he faced. His talents in this part of Wisconsin will be greatly missed.

James married Harkins, Marjorie 27 May 1943. Marjorie was born 26 Sep 1920; died 17 Feb 2004, Superior, Douglas, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]