Brief Life History of Boyd
When Boyd Buchanan was born on 21 April 1893, in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Buchanan, was 29 and his mother, Mary Larsen, was 22. He married Catherine Boyer on 6 September 1916, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Venice, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 31 October 1972, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Venice Cemetery, Venice, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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- Boyd Buchanan, "United States 1950 Census"
- 22 May 1930 Richfield Reaper announces birth of a baby boy for Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Buchanan
- Boyd Buchanan, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
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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