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The Buchanan side of his family arrived in the United States from Scotland. His paternal grandfather was a general with the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War while his maternal grandfather Thomas McKean was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Captain Franklin Buchanan, USN (circa 1855–1861)
Franklin Guest Smith (1840–1912), U.S. Army brigadier general, resident of Washington, D.C. during retirement [27] Oliver Lyman Spaulding (1875–1947), U.S. Army brigadier general, 1891 graduate of Central High School, [28] lived in Washington during retirement [29]
Public Law 95-260 was passed by Congress in 1978 to create a memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town.
Buchanan also had pre-plantation Irish ancestry being a descendant of the O'Kanes from County Londonderry. Andrew Johnson (Irish and English) 17th President, 1865–69: His grandfather suppoosedly left Mounthill, near Larne in County Antrim around 1750 and settled in North Carolina he was of English ancestry.
John Fillmore Sr (2nd great-grandfather) England → Massachusetts Bay Colony [18] 14 Franklin Pierce (1804–1869) Benjamin Pierce. Anna Kendrick Yes: Yes: Thomas Pierce (3rd great-grandfather) Norwich, England → Massachusetts Bay Colony (c.1634) [18] 15 James Buchanan (1791–1868) James Buchanan Sr. Elizabeth Speer Yes: Yes: James Buchanan ...
The James Buchanan Memorial is a bronze, granite, and concrete memorial in the southeast corner of Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D.C., that honors U.S. President James Buchanan. It was designed by architect William Gorden Beecher, and sculpted by Maryland artist Hans Schuler .
The historic cottage, built in the Gothic revival style, was constructed from 1842 to 1843 as the home of George Washington Riggs, who went on to establish the Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C. Lincoln lived in the cottage June to November 1862 through 1864 and during the first summer living there, Lincoln drafted the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (October 4, 1857 – February 21, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1918 to 1922. Early life and education