Always devoted to literary studies, as a historical and genealogical writer he has earned an enviable reputation.  James Morrison Steele Mackaye (1842-94), actor and dramatist, was grandson of William Kay who came from Scotland about 1800.  His son, Percy Wallace Mackaye (b. 1875) is a distinguished dramatist and poet.  Wallace Bruce (b. 1844), poet and essayist, was descended from George Bruce who came from Scotland in 1635.  While United States Consul at Edinburgh (1889-93) he secured the erection of a statue of Lincoln in the Calton Burial Ground, to commemorate the services of Scottish-American soldiers in the Civil War.  James Kennedy, born at Aberlemno, Forfarshire, in 1850, is a well-known poet, author, and lecturer.  John D. Ross, born in Edinburgh in 1853, is author of several literary works particularly relating to Scotland.  Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909), the novelist, son of Thomas Crawford the sculptor, was also of Scottish descent.  Henry Morse Stephens, the historian, was born in Edinburgh in 1857.  Ernest Evan Seton-Thompson (b. 1860), artist, author, and naturalist, and Charles William Wallace (b. 1865), philologist and Shakespearean scholar, are both of Scottish descent.  John Hanson Thomas McPherson (b. 1865), historian and educator, author of “History of Liberia” (1891), is a descendant of Robert McPherson who came from Scotland in 1738.  George Barr McCutcheon (b. 1866), author of many widely read works of fiction ("Graustark,” “Brewster’s Millions,” etc.) is a descendant of John McCutcheon who emigrated from Scotland in 1730.  Mary Johnston (b. 1870), author of “Prisoners of Hope” (1898), “To have and to hold” (1899), etc., is a descendant of Peter Johnston who emigrated to Virginia in 1727.

SCOTS IN THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL WELFARE

Francis Makemie (c. 1658-1708), the organizer of the first American Presbytery, was born in Ulster of Scots parentage.  In 1676 he went to Glasgow to attend the classes in the University there, and his name still stands in the matriculation register of the University:  “Franciscus Makemius ...  Scoto-Hibernus,” i.e.  Francis Makemie, a Scot of Ireland.  In 1683 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Laggan and sent over to the American colonies, where he immediately began the organization of churches and presbyteries.  William Traill, another Scot, Moderator of the Presbytery of Laggan, was sent over shortly before Makemie but he confined his work to preaching.  George Gillespie (1683-1760), born in Glasgow, was one of the earliest ordained ministers in New Jersey and Delaware.  Alexander Garden (1685-1756), an Episcopalian, born in Edinburgh, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, as Rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.  Samuel Auchmuty (1722-77), son of the eminent Scottish lawyer of Boston, was Rector of Trinity Church, New York city, and had charge of all the churches there.  Thomas Gordon, the “fighting parson” of