Old photograph of the Post Office in Amulree, Perthshire, Scotland. James MacLagan was born in 1728 at the Ballechin estate near Strathtay, Perthshire. A son of Donald McClagon, a farmer, his birth is recorded in the parish of Moulin, Perthshire, on 8th September 1728. In 1750, he matriculated at the University of St Andrews in Fife. It is not known what he studied or when he left, but he is subsequently recorded as being ordained in the Church of Scotland by the presbytery of Dunkeld on 6 February 1760. His first position as minister was at the chapel of ease in Amulree, Perthshire, between 1760 and 1766. McLagan died at Blair Atholl on 3 May 1805.
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