Brooklyn Navy Yard and there built six ships of the line.  In 1822 he built the steamer “Robert Fulton,” which made the first successful steam voyage to New Orleans and Havana.  Angus Neilson Macpherson (1812-76), born at Cluny, Inverness-shire, was builder of the frigate “Ironsides,” and designer of the furnaces for heating large plates and the method of affixing them to the sides of the vessel.  Donald Mackay (1810-80), born in Nova Scotia, grandson of Donald Mackay of Tain, Ross-shire, established the shipyards at East Boston, and constructed a number of fast sailing ships, and during the Civil War a number of warships for the United States Government.  The beauty and speed of his clippers gave him a world wide reputation as a naval constructor.  Thomas Dickson (1822-84), President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co., was born in Lauder.  William Grey Warden (1831-95), born in Pittsburgh of Scottish ancestry, was a pioneer in the refining of petroleum in Pennsylvania, and the controlling spirit in the work of creating the great Atlantic Refinery consolidated with the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1874.  George Gibson McMurtry (1838-1915), born in Belfast of Scottish descent, steel manufacturer and philanthropist, was “one of the big figures of that small group of men which established the industrial independence of the United States from the European nations of cheap labor.”  James Edwin Lindsay (1826-1919), lumberman, was descended from Donald Lindsay, who settled in Argyle, New York, in 1739.  John McKesson (b. 1807), descended from the McKessons of Argyllshire, was founder of the, wholesale drug firm of McKesson and Robbins; and Alfred B. Scott of the wholesale drug firm of Scott and Bowne was also of Scottish descent.  Edmond Urquhart (b. 1834) was one of the pioneers in the creation of the cotton seed oil industry.  To Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), born in Dunfermline, “the richest and most free-handed Scot who ever lived,” more than anyone else is due the great steel and iron industry of the United States.  His innumerable gifts for public libraries, etc., are too well known to need detailing here.  To New York alone he gave over five million dollars to establish circulating branches in connection with the New York Public Library.  In the development of the steel business of Pittsburgh he was ably seconded by James Scott, George Lauder (his cousin), Robert Pitcairn, Charles Lockhart, and others—­all Scots.  James McClurg Guffey (b. 1839), oil producer and capitalist, was of Galloway descent.  He developed the oil fields of Kansas, Texas, California, West Virginia, and Indian Territory.  The town of Guffey, Colorado, is named in his honor.  His brother Wesley S. Guffey was also prominent in the oil industry.  John Arbuckle (1839-1912), merchant and philanthropist, known in the trade as the “Coffee King,” was born in Scotland.  Robert Dunlap (b. 1834), hat manufacturer and founder of Dunlap Cable News Company (1891), was of Ulster Scot origin.