When George Matthew Buchanan was born on 10 February 1855, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, his father, George A Buchanan, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Ann Nanney, was 24. He married Judith W Cox on 11 February 1875, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Skilesville, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 January 1938, at the age of 82, and was buried in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
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