Brief Life History of Andrew
When Andrew Buchanan was born on 10 June 1868, in Donegal, North Perth, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, Andrew Buchanan Jr., was 43 and his mother, Mary Jane Booth, was 33. He married Frances Mary Coxon on 3 December 1890, in Elma Township, Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and San Juan, Washington, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 December 1939, in Friday Harbor, San Juan, Washington, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in San Juan Cemetery, Friday Harbor, San Juan, Washington, United States.
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- Andrew Buchanan in household of Andrew Buchanan, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Andrew Buchanan, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Andrew Buchanan, "Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979"
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Find a Grave Memorials shows that the earliest burial in this cemetery was in 1873: James A Bradshaw - BIRTH 1834 - DEATH 6 Jul 1873 (aged 38–39) - BURIAL San Juan Cemetery
1889 · Washington Becomes a State
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
Name Meaning
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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