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Mac Lane's High School education began in Utica, New York but was interrupted in 1924 when he was 14 years old for, at that time, his father died.

Mac Lane's early years were spent in several different small towns but he did live in one large city, spending a few years in Boston when aged around seven. Saunders had two brothers, Gerald R MacLane, who became a mathematics professor at Rice University and Purdue University, and David Tyler MacLane, born 20 January 1922, in Utica, New York, who became a school teacher and businessman. The change from MacLane to Mac Lane only came about many years later after his marriage. When he was only one month old his parents decided they did not like the name Leslie and from that time on he was known as Saunders MacLane. After his marriage, Donald became a Congregational Minister in Taftville, Connecticut and his eldest son Leslie Saunders MacLane, the subject of this biography, was born in Norwich, close to Taftville. Winifred was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and taught English, Latin and Mathematics at High School before her marriage.

Donald married Winifred Saunders, the eldest daughter of George Aretas Saunders, in 1908. He became a pastor in the Congregational Church and the eldest son from his second marriage, Donald Bradford McLane, was born 19 January 1882 in Steubenville. His grandfather, William Ward McLane was born in Lewisville, Pennsylvania in 1846, became a Presbyterian Minister but was forced to leave the Church after preaching the theory of evolution. Biography Saunders Mac Lane came from a Scottish family who fled from Scotland after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

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