When Daniel Lee Buchanan was born on 21 January 1870, in Blount, Alabama, United States, his father, Thomas Newton Buchanan, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Tobitha Long, was 28. He married Ida Mae Bennick on 1 December 1892, in Coke, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Mitchell, Texas, United States in 1910 and Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 14 March 1959, in Taylor, Texas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Colorado City, Mitchell, Texas, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Historical Boundaries: 1881: Mitchell, Texas, Untied States
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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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