(died early 1873), lawyer. (John B. Maclennan; in this name, Ban means fair-haired or complexioned) Born in Charlottenburgh. Parents: Farquhar Ban McLennan and his wife Catherine Fraser. He was married to Mary Charlotte Knight, who was born in Cornwall Township. (her obituary, Cornwall Standard 17 June 1915) He was the law partner in Cornwall, Ont., of John Sandfield Macdonald, and was also crown attorney of SDG from 1871 to 1873. He died the year after Macdonald, and his brother Donald B. Maclennan continued the law practice. Two other of his brothers, Capt. Alexander B. and Duncan B. McLennan, also appear in the present dictionary. Sir James Pliny Whitney, the premier of Ontario 1905-1914, studied law as a young man in the office of John Sandfield Macdonald and John Ban Maclennan.

Harkness: index (portrait) * minor refs. in sources for life of Donald Ban Maclennan * Whitney: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XIV, 1055