Donald C. McLachlan, M.D., Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire 
From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net 

Surname: MCLACHLAN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 809

   DONALD C. McLACHLAN, M. D., who has been successfully en-
gaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in the town of Green-
land, Rockingham County, N. H., for the past nine years, was born
in Lochabar, province of Quebec, Canada, on May 5, 1878. His parents,
Malcolm and Sarah (Campbell) McLachlan, both died in Canada, where
the father was engaged in farming. Their children were Robert N., Chris-
tiana, John P., Donald C., Mary, and Jemima.
   Donald C. McLachlan began his education in the common schools
of Lochabar and was subsequently graduated from the high school at
Van Klekhill, Ontario, as a member of the class of 1898. He then en-
tered McGill University at Montreal, where he was graduated in med-
icine in 1904. After nine months' experience in the Montreal Maternity
Hospital he came to Greenland, N. H., in April, 1905, where he has since
built up a good practice. His genial manners and professional ability
have made him a popular member of the medical fraternity in this county
and he enjoys the pub1ic confidence in a high degree. He belongs to
the Portsmouth Medical Society, as well as to' the County and State 
Medical Associations, and is a man who keeps abreast of his profession
in all its branches.
   Dr. McLachlan was married in 1909 to Caroline D. Hatch, who was
born in Greenland. N. H., a daughter of Hon. John and Alice C. (Ben-
ton) Hatch. He and his wife are the parents of one child, a son,
Malcolm. The family attend the Episcopal Church, and the Doctor is
a member of the Masonic order, in which he has taken three degrees.

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