John Macdonald
BIRTH
Jan 11, 1815
Glasgow, Scotland
DEATH
June 6, 1891
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
FAMILY
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Macdonald, John
(1815-1891)
John Macdonald was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a doctor, lawyer, clergyperson. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “John A. Macdonald.”
The exact date and place of John Macdonald’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Macdonald with work or public activity as a doctor, lawyer, clergyperson. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Macdonald died on Jun 6, 1891 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.