When Mary Josephine Buchanan was born on 26 February 1853, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Dixon Buchanan, was 23 and her mother, Ellen Jane Cullen, was 23. She married Joseph Spencer on 24 December 1871, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Howard Township, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Union, Union, Oregon, United States in 1870. She died on 3 July 1936, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Island City Cemetery, Island City, Union, Oregon, United States.
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The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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