The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-28
STRUCK By PARALYSIS
DR.. Edwin Buchanan Found
Dead at His Home.
CUT DOWN IN PRIME OF LIFE.
Formerly With the War Department
and Governments Physician for In
dfans Mrs. w. &. williams Dead.

One OF the most popular medical prac-
tit.oners OF the city passed away yestsr
DAY afternoon with a suddeaness that was
pathetic. Or. Edwin Buchanan was a
man of charming personality. with that
perfection OF form and outline and clear
skin rarely met with except in men under
the middle height. an eye long In shape
and soft as a womans. a nose prominent
and exquisitely chseled. and a firm,
rounded chin. He had been practic.ng
here but little over year. and yet had
many patients, and was exceedingly well
known. He was known. in fact before
he came here to settle. from the position
he held for years as government physi-
clan of the Puyallup. Lummi. Swinomish
Port Madison and Muckleshoot Indian
reservations.
g. A. Burch. the insurance agent. has
been a bosom friend Of DR.. Buchanan for
the last fifteen years. part Of which time
they spent in Washington City together.
Yesterday afternoon, as was his Sunday
custom. Mr.. Burch rang the bell at his
friends vine-embowered cottage, No. e1s
Third street. Mrs. Buchanan 10 open the
front door. passed the sitting room and
saw that her husband had rolled from the
sofa. where few minutes before she rad
seen him reading and smoking, on to the
floor 1ntuitively. and from his position.
she OWNED something was wrong. She
~ tore II open.
Come In, come in; think Edwin is
sick
Mr. Burch rushed past her. raised his
friend to the sofa. remedies were hurried
~ applied, but-his old friend had passed
away while he had been sitting on the
pretty porch waiting for the door TO open.
Edwin BuchanaS was born in Alexan-
dria- OF one of the old families of Virginia
in the New Year OF 1858. In his youth he
worked in a drug store there, and later
entered Georgetown college, where he
passed with the highest honors of his
class. President Hayes had his atteD-
ton directed TO the bright young man,
and he made a personal appointment for
him in the war department, the portfolio
OF which was then held by Robert 4. Lin
coin. who in time also became a warm
friend of young Buchanan. The position
was really gwen TO him. not for any po-
Itical reasons, but as a mark of encour
agement to one who had already distin-
guished himself, and to afford him an op-
portunity 10 continue his medical studies.
He continued in the war department and
in the study of medicine under Lincoln
and his successor. Endicott. and was then
appointed to the Indian service, first at
Grand Ronde. or. where he remained
two years. and from where he was re-
moved TO Puyallup. He became an expert
in Chinook dialects. and his Indian col
lect.ons from time TO time have been nota-
BILE
The sad death of DR.: Buchanan occurred
about o'clock. Drs. Montgomery Rus
sell William Shannon and Fl. D. Kline
were called in and decided that the cause
of death was heart disease The doctor
sat up with patients on Thursday and
Friday nights. and was also busily oceu-
pied with patients until far into the night
of Saturday. Yesterday he breakfasted
between II and u o'clock and ate hearty
meal. Then he iounged on the sofa to re-
view his cases and after that took UP
the Post-Intellgencer and his cigar He
was man OF as regular habits as his
profession permitted. of good health. and
was bright and in good spirits half an
hour before he passed away: he was as
bright and cheerful as was his habit. His
wife had often seen him place his hand
10 his heart after walking uphill. but he
had never complained.