Margaret Buchanan was born on 2 June 1837, in Van, Marshall Islands as the daughter of William Buchanan and Mary Marshall. She married James Lees on 23 August 1855, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871. She died on 25 May 1913, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 75, and was buried in Kinfauns, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner as a department store for the community. The original building was destroyed by a fire in 1892 but, with a new design in mind, the store was reopened in 1895 with new features. It was named Harrods of the North after it was given Royal Warrant in 1911 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on its 150th anniversary. It was sold to the House of Fraser in 2005, which in 2008, made much needed improvements to the store.
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http://www.rmiembassyus.org/History.htm. Rev. Hiram Bingham, Jr. of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) creates missionary outpost on Ebon.
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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