====== Buick, David Dunbar ====== 
 (17 Sept.1854-6 March 1929), celebrated American car man whose name is commemorated by the Buick car. Born in Arbroath, Scotland. He came to the U. S. with his parents as a 2-year-old. In an extremely troubled business career, Buick was an inventor, promoter, and manufacturer, ultimately so unsuccessful financially that it is remarkable that his name remains a household word. Buick was assuredly not a Glengarrian, but according to a story which Angus H. McDONELL secured from Peter Charlebois Buick tried unsuccessfully in a meeting with Hugh Munro to obtain a business partnership with the Alexandria carriage-manufacturing firm of Munro & McIntosh. The Cornwall //Standard// 14 March 1929 noted Buick’s death but did not mention this story. Buick’s private papers have not survived (information Dec. 1993) and there seems no way of proving or disproving a story which is unlikely but not preposterous, especially given the turbulent course of Buick’s career.


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<fs small>Angus H. McDonell, “Charlebois Was Last Link to Glengarry’s Pioneer Crafts,” //Glengarry News// 20 Feb. 1991, repr. //Glengarry Life// No. 31 (1992) * //Bibliography of Glengarry// 169
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