George Buist spent most of his short life in the Bengal Army. He was the first born son of the esteemed Reverend Doctor George Buist, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St. Andrews. The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three Presidencies of the British Raj within the British Empire. The Presidency armies belonged to the East India Company and Buist was well suited for a life in the military. After his cadet training in 1827-29, he first arrived at Bombay, India in 1829. Later, he would fall in love with Captain Thomas Mason's daughter...

Most of the Midwest was in a drought in the fall of 1871. Chicago, with its predominance of wooden buildings and inadequate fire codes, was an inferno waiting to happen, and on Sunday evening, 8 October 1871 it did. The Great Chicago Fire began on that night in or around a barn located on the property of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary at 137 DeKoven Street on the city's southwest side. Legend holds that the blaze started when the family's cow knocked over a lighted lantern; however, Catherine O'Leary denied this charge, and the true cause of the fire has never been determined. The Chicago Fire...

U.S. Marine Robert B. Tracy was a machine gunner in Company E, 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division during World War II. Having fought on Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima he survived all battles in the Pacific Theater of the war. Through his surviving letters gives the reader a glimpse of the hardships this Marine experienced, the battles he fought and finally his eventual outcome.

The Life stories of David John Campbell Ireland of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders; David Watson Howat of the Seaforth Highlanders; James Clark of the 1st Black Watch and John Pake of the 14th Black Watch who served and died in the First World War.

A Biography of Robert Lowe Buist who left Scotland in the mid-1850s and immigrated to Chesterville, Ontario, Canada. Here he started various businesses and raised a family. One son, Robert Douglas Buist left Canada and ventured to Chicago, Illinois where he settled and raised a family of his own. This is a tribute to the interesting lives of a father and son.

A descriptive biography on the life and times of Henry Buist (1771-1865) of Berryhill, Abdie Parish, Fife, Scotland and his son, Andrew Walker Buist (1816-1877). Both family members were prominent Fife farmers of the area and took an active interest in their communities.

Thomas Buist, the fifth child of George Buist and Christian Ballingall did not inherit his father's many lands in Abdie and Kettle Parishes, as he was not the eldest son and heir. However in his early youth he was tutored and well cared for. He worked quite hard as a young married man as a house servant for Mr. David Glass of Smithy Green and later provided well for his wife and eight children while at Feddinch, Cameron Parish, Fife. At Feddinch he rose to become Head Gardener for Mr. William Lindsay, Esquire. There as a senior member of Mr. Lindsay's household, he held a position of...

George Buist, a tenant farmer from Fife, typified the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in Scottish farming in mid-18th century. By setting aside a farm for the bleaching of linen he, like many others in lowland Scotland made a contribution that would see linen become the country's most important industry until it was eclipsed by cotton in the later years of the century. He also lived through the height of the Scottish Enlightenment when new science was being brought to bear on Scottish agriculture. His sons Henry, George, James and Thomas were equally industrious in their own chosen...

In the final volume of the Complete History of the Buist family, this work begins with the life and times of Andrew Buist (1727-1815) who as a tenant farmer from Fife, Scotland, typified the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in Scottish farming in the mid-18th century. William Buist (1691- ) also a tenant farmer of the estates of Berryhill, Denmill, and Lochmill in Abdie Parish, Fife. William Buist the Elder (1664-1730) was the last of three generations of the family to be born in Dunfermline, Fife. He would become the first Buist to farm the lands of Berryhill, Abdie Parish, Fife. James...

The Buist family of Charleston, South Carolina had a long and distinguished history in the area. Three brothers would serve in the Civil War. Henry, George Lamb Buist and John S. Buist. This is their story of service during America's longest war.