Scotland's Mark on America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 150 pages of information about Scotland's Mark on America.

Scotland's Mark on America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 150 pages of information about Scotland's Mark on America.
President of the Northern Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (1863-74), Secretary of War Under General Grant, and Senator from Pennsylvania.  Charles E. Stuart (1810-87), Lawyer and Senator, was a descendant of Daniel Stuart who came to America before 1680.  Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-61), Senator and unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the Presidency in 1860, was of Scottish origin.  Joseph Ewing MacDonald (1819-91), who held a foremost place among constitutional lawyers and was Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1864, was of Scottish ancestry.  Francis Montgomery Blair (1821-75), a descendant of Commissary Blair of Virginia, was Senator from Missouri (1871-73), and Democratic candidate for Vice-President in 1868.  James Burnie Beck (1822-90), born in Dumfriesshire, was Member of Congress (1867-75) and Senator from 1876 to 1890.  He served on many important committees.  Joseph McIlvaine (1765-1826), United States Senator from 1823 to 1826, was grandson of a Scot.  His father fought on the Colonial side in the Revolution.  Randall Lee Gibson (1822-92), of Scottish ancestry, Major-General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, was United States Senator from Louisiana from 1883 till his death.  His grandfather, Randall Gibson, was one of the founders of Jefferson College, Mississippi.  John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army, thirty-fifth Governor of Georgia and United States Senator, was grandson of a Scot.  Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) was also partly Scottish descent.  Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898), Chairman of the Democratic Campaign Committee (1888) and Senator from Ohio (1891-97), claimed descent from Bruce of Kinnaird.  Daniel Hugh McMillan (b. 1846), was much identified with the welfare of Buffalo.  His grandfather was “John the Upright,” arbiter of the Hollanders of the Mohawk Valley during the latter part of the eighteenth century.  Alexander McDonald (d. 1903), Senator from Arkansas (1868-71), was the son of John McDonald who came to the United States in 1827, and was one of the first to discover and develop bituminous coal mines on the west branch of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.  John Lendrum Mitchell (1842-1904), grandson of John Mitchell, farmer of Aberdeenshire, was State Senator of Wisconsin, Member of Congress from Wisconsin (1891-93), and Senator from the same state (1893-99), was also noted as a capitalist.  Samuel James Renwick MacMillan (d. 1897), Chairman of the Committee of Commerce, was of Covenanting descent.

SCOTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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