When George Worden Buchanan was born on 14 February 1796, in Fabius, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, George Oswell Buchanan, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Worden, was 22. He had at least 6 sons and 5 daughters with Clarrissa Pendleton. He lived in Harrison Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 5 February 1852, in Muskingum, Ohio, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Union Hill Cemetery, Blue Rock, Muskingum, Ohio, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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