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Scottish emigration to America came in two streams—one direct from the motherland and the other through the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. Those who came by this second route are usually known as “Ulster Scots,” or more commonly as “Scotch-Irish,” and they have been claimed as Irishmen by Irish writers in the United States. This is perhaps excusable but hardly just. Throughout their residence in Ireland the Scots settlers preserved their distinctive Scottish characteristics, and generally described themselves as “the Scottish nation in the north of Ireland.” They, of course, like the early pioneers in this country, experienced certain changes through the influence of their new surroundings, but, as one writer has remarked, they “remained as distinct from the native population as if they had never crossed the Channel. They were among the Irish but not of them.” Their sons, too, when they attended the classes in the University of Glasgow, signed the matriculation register as “A Scot of Ireland.” They did not intermarry with the native Irish, though they did intermarry to some extent with the English Puritans and with the French Huguenots. (These Huguenots were colonies driven out of France by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and induced to settle in the north of Ireland by William III. To this people Ireland is indebted for its lace industry, which they introduced into that country.)
Again many Irish-American writers on the Scots Plantation of Ulster have assumed that the Scots settlers were entirely or almost of Gaelic origin, ignoring the fact, if they were aware of it, that the people of the Scottish lowlands were “almost as English in racial derivation as if they had come from the North of England.” Parker, the historian of Londonderry, New Hampshire, speaking of the early Scots settlers in New England, has well said: “Although they came to this land from Ireland, where their ancestors had a century before planted themselves, yet they retained unmixed the national Scotch character. Nothing sooner offended them than to be called Irish. Their antipathy to this appellation had its origin in the hostility then existing in Ireland between the Celtic race, the native Irish, and the English and Scotch colonists.” Belknap, in his History of New Hampshire (Boston, 1791) quotes a letter from the Rev. James MacGregor (1677-1729) to Governor Shute in which the writer says: “We are surprised to hear ourselves termed Irish people, when we so frequently ventured our all for the British Crown and liberties against the Irish papists, and gave all tests, of our loyalty, which the government of Ireland required, and are always ready to do the same when demanded.”
Down to the present day the descendants of these Ulster Scots settlers living in the United States who have maintained an interest in their origin, always insist that they are of Scottish and not of Irish origin. On this point it will be sufficient to quote the late Hon. Leonard Allison Morrison, of New Hampshire. Writing twenty-five years ago he said: “I am one of Scotch-Irish blood and my ancestor came with Rev. McGregor of Londonderry, and neither they nor any of their descendants were willing to be called ‘merely Irish.’ I have twice visited,” he adds, “the parish of Aghadowney, Co. Londonderry, from which they came, in Ireland, and all that locality is filled, not with ‘Irish’ but with Scotch-Irish, and this is pure Scotch blood to-day, after more than 200 years.” The mountaineers of Tennessee and Kentucky are largely the descendants of these same Ulster Scots, and their origin is conclusively shown by the phrase used by mothers to their unruly children: “If you don’t behave, Clavers [i.e., Claverhouse] will get you.”
If we must continue to use the hyphen when referring to these early immigrants it is preferable to use the term “Ulster Scot” instead of “Scotch-Irish,” as was pointed out by the late Whitelaw Reid, because it does not confuse the race with the accident of birth, and because the people preferred it themselves. “If these Scottish and Presbyterian colonists,” he says, “must be called Irish because they had been one or two generations in the north of Ireland, then the Pilgrim Fathers, who had been one generation or more in Holland, must by the same reasoning be called Dutch or at the very least English Dutch.”
To understand the reasons for the Scots colonization of Ulster and the replantation in America it is necessary to look back three centuries in British history. On the crushing of the Irish rebellion under Sir Cahir O’Dogherty in 1607 about 500,000 acres of forfeited land in the province of Ulster were at the disposal of the crown. At the suggestion of King James the I. of England, Ulster was divided into lots and offered to colonists from England. Circumstances, however, turned what was mainly intended to be an English enterprise into a Scottish one. Scottish participation “which does not seem to have been originally regarded as important,” became eventually, as Ford points out, the mainstay of the enterprise. “Although from the first there was an understanding between [Sir Arthur] Chichester and the English Privy Council that eventually the plantation would be opened to Scotch settlers, no steps were taken in that direction until the plan had been matured ... The first public announcement of any Scottish connection with the Ulster plantation appears in a letter of March 19, 1609, from Sir Alexander Hay, the Scottish secretary resident at the English Court, to the Scottish Privy Council at Edinburgh.” In this communication Hay announced that the king “out of his unspeikable
The Scots were not long settled in Ulster before misfortune and persecution began to harass them. The Irish rebellion of 1641, said by some to have been an outbreak directed against the Scottish and English settlers, regarded by the native Irish as intruders and usurpers, caused them much suffering; and Harrison says that for “several years afterward 12,000 emigrants annually left Ulster for the American plantations.” The Revolution of 1688 was also long and bloody in Ireland and the sufferings of the settlers reached a climax in the siege of Londonderry (April to August, 1688). They suffered also from the restrictions laid upon their industries and commerce by the English government. These restrictions, and later the falling in of leases, rack-renting by the landlords, payment of tithes for support of a church with which they had no connection, and several other burdens and annoyances, were the motives which impelled emigration to the American colonies from 1718 onwards. Five ships bearing seven hundred Ulster Scots emigrants arrived in Boston on August 4, 1718, under the leadership of Rev. William Boyd. They were allowed to select a township site of twelve miles square at any place on the frontiers. A few settled at Portland, Maine, at Wicasset, and at Worcester and Haverhill, Massachusetts, but the greater number finally at Londonderry, New Hampshire. In 1723-4 they built a parsonage and a church for their minister, Rev. James MacGregor. In six years they had four schools, and within nine years Londonderry paid one-fifteenth of the state tax. Previous to the Revolution of 1776 ten distinct settlements were made by colonists from Londonderry, N.H., all of which became towns of influence and importance. Notable among the descendants of these colonists were Matthew Thornton, Henry Knox, Gen. John Stark, Hugh McCulloch, Horace Greeley, Gen. George B. McClellan, Salmon P. Chase, and Asa Gray. From 1771 to 1773 “the whole emigration from Ulster is estimated at 30,000 of whom 10,000 were weavers.”
In 1706 the Rev. Cotton Mather put forth a plan to settle hardy Scots families on the frontiers of Maine and New Hampshire to protect the towns and churches there from the French and Indians, the Puritans evidently not being able to protect themselves. He says, “I write letters unto diverse persons of Honour both in Scotland and in England; to procure Settlements of Good Scotch Colonies, to the Northward of us. This may be a thing of great consequence;” and elsewhere he suggests that a Scottish colony might be of good service in getting possession of Nova Scotia. In 1735, twenty-seven families, and in 1753 a company of sixty adults and a number of children, collected in Scotland by General Samuel Waldo, were landed at George’s River, Maine. In honor of the ancient capital of their native country, they named their settlement Stirling.
Another and an important cause of the early appearance of Scots in America was the wars between Scotland and England during the Commonwealth. Large numbers of Scottish prisoners taken at Dunbar (1650) and at Worcester (1651) were sold into service in the colonies, a shipload arriving in Boston Harbor in 1652 on the ship John and Sara. The means taken to ameliorate their condition led in 1657 to the foundation of the Scots Charitable Society of Boston—the earliest known Scottish society in America. Its foundation may be taken as evidence that there were already prosperous and influential Scots living in Boston at that time. A list of the passengers of the John and Sara is given in Suffolk Deed Records (bk. 1, pp. 5-6) and in Drake’s The Founders of New England (Boston, 1860, pp. 74-76). These men, says Boulton, “worked out their terms of servitude at the Lynn iron works and elsewhere, and founded honorable families whose Scotch names appear upon our early records. No account exists of the Scotch prisoners that were sent to New England in Cromwell’s time; at York in 1650 were the Maxwells, McIntires, and Grants. The Mackclothlans [i.e., Mac Lachlans], later known as the Claflins, gave a governor to Massachusetts and distinguished merchants to New York City.”
The bitter persecution of Presbyterians during the periods of episcopal rule in the latter half of the seventeenth century also contributed largely to Scottish emigration to the new world. A Scottish merchant in Boston named Hugh Campbell, obtained permission from the authorities of the Bay State Colony in February 1679-80 to bring in a number of settlers from Scotland and to establish them in the Nepmug country in the vicinity of Springfield, Massachusetts.
So desperate had matters become in Scotland at the beginning of the eighth decade of the seventeenth century that a number of the nobility and gentry determined to settle in New Jersey and the Carolinas. One of these colonies was founded in New Jersey in 1682 under the management of James Drummond, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barclay the Quaker Apologist, David and John Barclay, his brothers, Robert Gordon, Gawen Lawrie, and George Willocks. In 1684 Gawen Lawrie, who had been for several years previously residing in the colony, was appointed Deputy Governor of the province, and fixed his residence at Elizabeth. In the same year Perth (so named in honor of the Earl of Perth, one of the principal proprietors, now Perth Amboy) was made the capital of the new Scottish settlement. During the following century a constant stream of emigrants both from Scotland and from Ulster came to the colony. One of the principal encouragers of the Scottish colony in New Jersey was George Scot or Scott (d. 1685) of Pitlochrie, who had been repeatedly fined and imprisoned by the Privy Council of Scotland for attending “Conventicles,” as clandestine religious gatherings were then called in Scotland,
Walter Ker of Dalserf, Lanarkshire, banished in 1685, settled in Freehold, and was active in organizing the Presbyterian Church there, one of the oldest in New Jersey. The Scots settlers who came over at this period occupied most of the northern counties of the state but many went south and southwest, mainly around Princeton, and, says Samuel Smith, the first historian of the province, “There were very soon four towns in the Province, viz., Elizabeth, Newark, Middletown and Shrewsbury; and these with the country round were in a few years plentifully inhabited by the accession of the Scotch, of whom there came a great many.” These Scots, says Duncan Campbell, largely gave “character to this sturdy little state not the least of their achievements being the building up if not the nominal founding of Princeton College, which has contributed so largely to the scholarship of America.”
In 1682 another company of nobles and gentlemen in Scotland arranged for a settlement at Port Royal, South Carolina. These colonists consisted mainly of Presbyterians banished for attending “Conventicles.” The names of some of these immigrants, whose descendants exist in great numbers at the present day, included James McClintock, John Buchanan, William Inglis, Gavin Black, Adam Allan, John Gait, Thomas Marshall, William Smith, Robert Urie, Thomas Bryce, John Syme, John Alexander, John Marshall, Matthew Machen, John Paton, John Gibson, John Young, Arthur Cunningham, George Smith, and George Dowart. The colony was further increased by a small remnant of the ill-fated expedition to Darien. One of the vessels which left Darien to return to Scotland, the Rising Sun, was driven out of its course by a gale and took refuge in Charleston. Among its passengers was the Rev. Archibald Stobo, who was asked by some people in Charleston to preach in the town while the ship was being refitted. He accepted the invitation and left the ship with his wife and about a dozen others. The following day, the Rising Sun, while lying off the bar, was overwhelmed in a hurricane and all on board were drowned. This Rev. Archibald Stobo was the earliest
There were settlements of Scots Highlanders in North Carolina, on the Cape Fear River, as early as 1729; some indeed are said to have settled there as early as 1715. Neill McNeill of Jura brought over a colony of more than 350 from Argyllshire in 1739, and large numbers in 1746, after Culloden, and settled them on the Cape Fear River. Cross Creek, now Fayetteville, was the center of these Highland settlements, and hither came the Scottish heroine, Flora MacDonald, in 1775. The mania for emigration to North Carolina affected all classes in Scotland and continued for many years. The Scots Magazine for May 1768 records that a number of settlers from the Western Isles had embarked for Carolina and Georgia, including forty or fifty families from Jura alone. In September of following year it is stated that a hundred families of Highlanders had arrived at Brunswick, North Carolina, and “two vessels are daily expected with more.” In August 1769 the ship Mally sailed from Islay full of passengers for North Carolina, which was the third or fourth emigration from Argyll “since the conclusion of the late war.” In August 1770 it was stated that since the previous April six vessels carrying about twelve hundred emigrants had sailed from the western Highlands for North Carolina. In February of the following year the same magazine states that five hundred souls in Islay and adjacent islands were preparing to emigrate to America in the following summer. In September of the same year three hundred and seventy persons sailed from Skye for North Carolina, and two entries in the magazine for 1772 record the emigration of numbers from Sutherland and Loch Erribol. In the same year a writer says the people who have emigrated from the Western Isles since the year 1768 “have carried with them at least ten thousand pounds in specie. Notwithstanding this is a great loss to us, yet the depopulation by these emigrations is a much greater.... Besides, the continual emigrations from Ireland and Scotland, will soon render our colonies independent on the mother-country.” In August, 1773, three gentlemen of the name of Macdonell, with their families and four hundred Highlanders from Inverness-shire sailed for America to take possession of a grant of land “in Albany.” On the 22d of June previously between seven and eight hundred people from the Lewis sailed from Stornoway for the colonies. On the first of September, 1773, four hundred and twenty-five men, women and children from Inverness-shire sailed for America. “They
In 1735 a body of one hundred and thirty Highlanders with fifty women and children sailed from Inverness and landed at Savannah in January 1736. They were under the leadership of Lieutenant Hugh Mackay. Some Carolinians endeavoured to dissuade them from going to the South by telling them that the Spaniards would attack them from their houses in the fort near where they were to settle, to which they replied, “Why, then, we will beat them out of their fort, and shall have houses ready built to live in.” “This valiant spirit,” says Jones, “found subsequent expression in the efficient military service rendered by these Highlanders during the wars between the Colonists and the Spaniards, and by their descendants in the American Revolution. To John ‘More’ McIntosh, Captain Hugh Mackay, Ensign Charles Mackay, Col. John McIntosh, General Lachlan McIntosh, and their gallant comrades and followers, Georgia, both as a Colony and a State, owes a large debt of gratitude. This settlement was subsequently augmented from time to time by fresh arrivals from Scotland.... Its men were prompt and efficient in arms, and when the war cloud descended upon the southern confines of the province no defenders were more alert or capable than those found in the ranks of these Highlanders.” “No people,” says Walter Glasco Charlton, “ever came to Georgia who took so quickly to the conditions under which they were to live or remained more loyal to her interests” than the Highlanders. “These men,” says Jones, “were not reckless adventurers or reduced emigrants volunteering through necessity, or exiled through insolvency or want. They were men of good character, and were carefully selected for their military qualities.... Besides this military band, others among the Mackays, the Dunbars, the Baillies, and the Cuthberts applied for large tracts of land in Georgia which they occupied with their own servants. Many of them went over in person and settled in the province.”
Among the immigrants who flocked into Virginia in 1729 and 1740 we find individuals named Alexander Breckinridge, David Logan, Hugh Campbell, William Graham, James Waddell (the “Blind Preacher"), John McCue, Benjamin Erwin, Gideon Blackburn, Samuel Houston, Archibald Scott, Samuel Carrack, John Montgomery, George Baxter, William McPheeters, and Robert Poage (Page?), and others bearing the names of Bell, Trimble (Turnbull), Hay, Anderson, Patterson, Scott, Wilson, and Young. John McDowell and eight of his men were killed by Indians in 1742. Among the members of his company was his venerable father Ephraim McDowell. In 1763 the Indians attacked a peaceful settlement and carried off a number of captives. After traveling some distance and feeling safe from pursuit they demanded that their captives should sing for their entertainment, and it was a Scotswoman, Mrs. Gilmore, who struck up Rouse’s version of the one hundred and thirty-seventh psalm:
“By Babel’s streams
we sat and wept,
When Zion
we thought on,
In midst thereof we hanged
our harps
The willow
tree thereon.
“For there a song required
they,
Who did
us captive bring;
Our spoilers called for mirth,
and said:
‘A
song of Zion sing.’”
In the following year Colonel Henry Bouquet led a strong force against the Indians west of the Ohio, and compelled them to desist from their predatory warfare, and deliver up the captives they had taken. One of his companies was made up of men from the Central Valley of Virginia, largely composed of Scots or men of Ulster Scot descent, and commanded by Alexander McClanahan, a good Galloway surname. Ten years later occurred the battle of Point Pleasant when men of the same race under the command of Andrew Lewis defeated the Shawnee Indians.
In January 1775, the freeholders of Fincastle presented an address to the Continental Congress, declaring their purpose to resist the oppressive measures of the home government. Among the signers were William Christian, Rev. Charles Cummings, Arthur Campbell, William Campbell, William Edmundson, William Preston and others. Several other counties in the same state, inhabited mainly by Scots or people of Scottish descent, adopted like resolutions. During the Revolutionary war, in addition to large numbers of men of Scottish origin serving in the Continental army from this state, the militia were also constantly in service under the leadership of such men as Colonels Samuel McDowell, George Moffett, William Preston, John and William Bowyer, Samson Mathews, etc.
The following Scots were members of His Majesty’s Council in South Carolina under the royal government, from 1720 to 1776: Alexander Skene, James Kinloch (1729), John Cleland, James Graeme, George Saxby, James Michie, John Rattray (1761), Thomas Knox Gordon, and John Stuart. Andrew Rutledge was Speaker of the Commons’ House of Assembly from 1749 to 1752. David Graeme, attorney at law in 1754, was Attorney-General of the State from 1757 to 1764. James Graeme, most probably a relation of the preceding, was elected to the Assembly from Port Royal in 1732, became Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty from 1742 to 1752, and Chief Justice from 1749 to 1752. James Michie was Speaker of the Assembly from 1752 to 1754, Judge of the Court of Admiralty from 1752 to 1754, and Chief Justice from 1759 to 1761. William Simpson served as Chief Justice 1761-1762. Thomas Knox Gordon was appointed Chief Justice in 1771 and served till 1776, and in 1773 he also appears as Member of Council. John Murray was appointed Associate Justice in 1771 and died in 1774. William Gregory was appointed by His Majesty’s mandamus to succeed him in 1774. Robert Hume was Speaker of the Assembly in 1732-1733. Robert Brisbane was Associate Justice in 1764, and Robert Pringle appears in the same office in 1760 and 1766. John Rattray was Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty in 1760-61, and James Abercrombie appears as Attorney-General in 1731-32. James Simpson was Clerk of the Council in 1773, Surveyor-General of Land in 1772, Attorney-General in 1774-75, and Judge of Vice-Admiralty in the absence of Sir Augustus Johnson in 1769. John Carwood was Assistant Justice in 1725. Thomas Nairne was employed in 1707 “as resident agent among the Indians, with power to settle all disputes among traders ... to arrest traders who were guilty of misdemeanors and send them to Charleston for trial, to take charge of the goods of persons who were committed to prison, and to exercise the power of a justice of the peace.” This Thomas Nairne is probably the same individual who published, anonymously, “A letter from South Carolina; giving an account of the soil ... product ... trade ... government [etc.] of that province. Written by a Swiss Gentleman to his friend at Bern,” the first edition of which was published in London in 1710 (second ed. in 1732).
Among the names of the seventeen corporate members of the Charleston Library Society established in 1743 occur those of the following Scots: Robert Brisbane, Alexander M’Cauley, Patrick M’Kie, William Logan, John Sinclair, James Grindlay, Alexander Baron, and Charles Stevenson.
Of the members of the Provincial Congress held at Charleston in January, 1775, the following were Scotsmen or men of Scottish ancestry: Major John Caldwell, Patrick Calhoun (ancestor of Vice-President Calhoun), George Haig of the family of Bemersyde, Charles Elliott, Thomas Ferguson, Adam Macdonald, Alexander M’Intosh, John M’Ness, Isaac MacPherson, Col. William Moultrie, David Oliphant, George Ross, Thomas Rutledge, James Sinkler, James Skirving, senior, James Skirving, junior, William Skirving, and Rev. William Tennent.
In Maryland there seems to have been a colony of Scots about 1670 under Colonel Ninian Beall, settled between the Potomac and the Patuxent, and gradually increased by successive additions. Through his influence a church was established at Patuxent in 1704, the members of which included several prominent Fifeshire families. Many other small Scottish colonies were settled on the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, particularly in Accomac, Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties. To minister to them the Rev. Francis Makemie and the Rev. William Traill were sent out by the Presbytery of Laggan in Ulster. Upper Marlborough, Maryland, was founded by a company of Scottish immigrants and were ministered to by the Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, also from Scotland.
Two shiploads of Scottish Jacobites taken at Preston in 1716 were sent over in the ships Friendship and Good Speed to Maryland to be sold as servants. The names of some of these sufficiently attest their Scottish origin, as, Dugall Macqueen, Alexander Garden, Henry Wilson, John Sinclair, William Grant, Alexander Spalding, John Robertson, William MacBean, William McGilvary, James Hindry, Allen Maclien, William Cummins, David Steward, John Maclntire, David Kennedy, John Cameron, Alexander Orrach [Orrock?], Finloe Maclntire, Daniel Grant, etc. Another batch taken in the Rising of the ’45 and also shipped to Maryland include such names as John Grant, Alexander Buchanan, Patrick Ferguson, Thomas Ross, John Cameron, William Cowan, John Bowe, John Burnett, Duncan Cameron, James Chapman, Thomas Claperton, Sanders Campbell, Charles Davidson, John Duff, James Erwyn, Peter Gardiner, John Gray, James King, Patrick Murray, William Melvil, William Murdock, etc.
A strong infusion of Scottish blood in New York State came through settlements made there in response to a proclamation issued in 1735 by the Governor, inviting “loyal protestant Highlanders” to settle the lands between the Hudson River and the northern lakes. Attracted by this offer Captain Lauchlin Campbell of Islay, in 1738-40, brought over eighty-three families of Highlanders to settle on a grant of thirty thousand acres in what is now Washington County. “By this immigration,” says E.H. Roberts, “the province secured a much needed addition to its population, and these Highlanders must have sent messages home not altogether unfavorable, for they were the pioneers of a multitude whose coming in successive years were to add strength and thrift and intelligence beyond the ratio of their numbers to the communities in which they set up their homes.” Many Scottish immigrants settled in the vicinity of Goshen, Orange County, in 1720, and by 1729 had organized and built two churches. A second colony arrived from the north of Ireland in 1731. At the same time as the grant was made to Lauchlin Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor Clarke granted to John Lindsay, a Scottish gentleman, and three associates, a tract of eighty thousand acres
Sir William Johnson for his services in the French War (1755-58) received from the Crown a grant of one hundred thousand acres in the Mohawk Valley, near Johnstown, which he colonized with Highlanders in 1773-74.
In New York City about the end of the eighteenth century there was a colony of several hundred Scottish weavers, mainly from Paisley. They formed a community apart in what was then the village of Greenwich. In memory of their old home they named the locality “Paisley Place.” A view of some of their old dwellings in Seventeenth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, as they existed in 1863, is given in Valentine’s Manual for that year.
Although many Scots came to New England and New York they never settled there in such numbers as to leave their impress on the community so deeply as they did in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the south. There were Presbyterian churches in Lewes, Newcastle (Delaware), and Philadelphia previous to 1698, and from that time forward the province of Pennsylvania was the chief centre of Scottish settlement both from Scotland direct and by way of Ulster. By 1720 these settlers had reached the mouth of the Susquehanna, and three years later the present site of Harrisburg. Between 1730 and 1745 they settled the Cumberland Valley and still pushing westward, in 1768-69 the present Fayette, Westmoreland, Allegheny, and Washington counties. In 1773 they penetrated to and settled in Kentucky, and were followed by a stream of Todds, Flemings, Morrisons, Barbours, Breckinridges, McDowells, and others. By 1790 seventy-five thousand people were in the region and Kentucky was admitted to the Federal Union in 1792. By 1779 they had crossed the Ohio River into the present state of Ohio. Between the years 1730 and 1775 the Scottish immigration into Pennsylvania often reached ten thousand a year.
Lord Bacon expressed his regret that the lives of eminent men were not more frequently written, and added that, “though kings, princes, and great personages be few, yet there are many excellent men who deserve better fate than vague reports and barren elegies.” Of no country is this more true than the United States. An examination of the innumerable early biographical dictionaries with which the shelves of our public libraries are cumbered, will show that the bulk of the life sketches of the individuals therein commemorated are vague and unsatisfactory. In nearly every case little or no information is given of the parentage or origin of the subject, and indeed one work goes so far as to say that such information is unnecessary, the mere fact of American birth being sufficient. However pleasing such statements may be from an ultra patriotic viewpoint it is very unsatisfactory from the biological or historical side of the question, which is undoubtedly the most important to be considered. The neglect of these items of origin, etc., makes the task of positively identifying certain individuals as of Scottish origin or descent a very difficult one. One may feel morally certain that a particular individual from his name or features (if there be a portrait) is of Scottish origin, but without a definite statement to that effect the matter must in most cases be left an open question. One other cause of uncertainty, and it is a very annoying one, is the careless method of many biographers in putting down a man’s origin as “Irish,” “from Ireland,” “from the north of Ireland,” etc., where they clearly mean to state that the individual concerned is descended from one of the many thousands of Scots who settled in Ulster in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Notwithstanding this uncertainty the proportion of men of undoubted Scottish origin who have reached high distinction, and whose influence has had such far reaching scope in the United States, is phenomenal. “Let anyone,” says Dinsmore, “scrutinize the list of names of distinguished men in our annals; names of men eminent in public life from President down; men distinguished in the Church, in the Army, in the Navy, at the Bar, on the Bench, in Medicine and Surgery, in Education, trade, commerce, invention, discovery—in any and all of the arts which add to the freedom, enlightenment, and wealth of the world, and the convenience and comfort of mankind; names which have won luster in every honorable calling—let him scrutinize the list” and he will be astonished to find how large a proportion of these names represent men of Scottish birth or Scottish descent. In these pages it is obviously impossible to mention every Scot who has achieved distinction—to do so would require a large biographical dictionary. We can here only select a few names in each class from early colonial times to the present day.
The most famous family of Colonial times was that of the Livingstons of Livingston Manor, famed alike for their ability and their patriotism. The first of the family in America was Robert Livingston (1654-1725), born at Ancrum, Roxburghshire, who came to America about 1672. He married Alida (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer. His eldest son, Philip (1686-1749), second Lord of the Manor, succeeded him and added greatly to the family wealth and lands by his business enterprise. Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-92), second son of Philip, was President of the first Provincial Congress. Another son, Philip (1716-78), was Member of the General Assembly for the City of New York, Member of Congress in 1774 and 1776, and one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. A third son was William (1723-90), Governor of New Jersey. Other prominent members of this family were Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), and Edward (1764-1836). The former was Member of the Continental Congress, Chancellor of the State of New York (1777-1801), Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1781-83), Minister to France (1801-05), and Negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase (1803). He administered the oath of office to George Washington on his assuming the office of President. Edward was Member of Congress from New York (1795-1801), Mayor of New York City (1801-03), Member of Congress from Louisiana (1823-29), United States Senator (1829-31), Secretary of State (1831-33), and Minister to France (1833-35). Robert Fulton, the inventor, married a daughter of the Livingstons and thus got the necessary financial backing to make the Clermont a success. A sister of Edward was married to General Montgomery of Quebec fame, another to Secretary of War Armstrong, and a third to General Morgan Lewis.
The Bells of New Hampshire descended from John Bell, the Londonderry settler of 1718, gave three governors to New Hampshire and one to Vermont. Luther V. Bell, formerly Superintendent of the McLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts, was another of his descendants. The McNutts of Londonderry, New Hampshire, are descended from William McNaught, who settled there in 1718. The McNaughts came originally from Kilquhanite in Galloway. The Bean family, descended from John Bean who came to America in 1660, were pioneers in new settlements in New Hampshire and Maine, and bore the burden of such a life and profited by it. About one hundred of them were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The Macdonough family of Delaware is also of Scottish descent. Thomas Macdonough, the famous naval officer, was of the third generation in this country. The Corbit family of Delaware are descended from Daniel Corbit, a Quaker born in Scotland in 1682. The Forsyths of Georgia are descended from Robert Forsyth, born in Scotland about 1754, who entered the Congressional Army and became a Captain of Lee’s Light Horse in 1776. The Forsyths of New York State trace their descent to two brothers from Aberdeenshire (John and Alexander). The bulk of the Virginia Gordons appear to have been from Galloway.
Alexander Breckenridge, a Scot, came to America about 1728, settling in Pennsylvania and later in Virginia. One of his sons, Robert, was an energetic Captain of Rangers during the Indian wars, and died before the close of the Revolutionary War. By his second wife, also of Scottish descent, he had several sons who achieved fame and success. One of these sons, John Breckenridge (1760-1808), became Attorney-General of Kentucky in 1795; served in the state legislature 1797-1800; drafted the famous Kentucky resolutions in 1798; was United States Senator from Kentucky (1801-05) and Attorney-General in Jefferson’s Cabinet from 1805 till his death. Among the sons of John Breckenridge were Robert Jefferson Breckenridge (1800-71), clergyman and author, and Joseph Cabell Breckenridge. John Cabell Breckenridge, son of Joseph C. Breckenridge, was Vice-President of the United States (1857-61), candidate of the Southern Democrats for President in 1860, General in the Confederate Armies (1862-64), Confederate Secretary of War till 1865. Joseph Cabell Breckenridge (b. 1840), son of Robert J. Breckenridge, also served with distinction in the Civil War, and took an active part in the Santiago campaign during the Spanish-American War. Henry Breckenridge (b. 1886), son of Joseph C. Breckenridge, was Assistant Secretary of War, and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the Argonne. William Campbell Preston Breckenridge (1837-1904), son of Robert J. Breckenridge, was Member of the Forty-ninth Congress.
The descendants of James McClellan, kin of the McClellans of Galloway, Scotland, who was appointed Constable at the town meeting held in Worcester in March, 1724, have written their name large in the medical and military annals of this country. Some of his descendants are noticed under Physicians. The most famous of the family was General George Brinton MacClellan (1826-85), Major-General in the United States Army during the Civil War, unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Party for President in 1864, and Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. The General’s son, George B. McClellan (b. 1865), was Mayor of New York (1903 and 1905) and is now a Professor in Princeton. James Bulloch, born in Scotland c. 1701, emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1728. In the following year he married Jean Stobo, daughter of the Rev. Archibald Stobo, and was the first ancestor of the late President Roosevelt’s mother. His son, Archibald Bulloch (d. 1777), was Colonial Governor of Georgia and Commander of the State’s forces in 1776-77, and signed the first Constitution of Georgia as President. He would have been one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence had not official duties called him, home. A descendant of his, James Dunwoody Bulloch, uncle of the late President Roosevelt, was Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy and Confederate States Naval Agent abroad. Irvine S. Bulloch, another uncle of Roosevelt’s, was Sailing Master of the Alabama when in battle with the U.S.S. Kearsarge. Another of this family was William B. Bulloch (1776-1852), lawyer and State Senator of Georgia. The Chambers family of Trenton, New Jersey, are descended from two brothers, John and Robert Chambers, who came over in the ship Henry and Francis in 1685.
In the eighteenth century many natives of Dumfriesshire emigrated to the American colonies, and of these perhaps the most prominent were those descended from John Johnston of Stapleton, Dumfriesshire, an officer in a Scottish regiment in the French service. His second son, Gabriel, became Governor of North Carolina. In the house of the Governor’s brother, Gilbert, it is stated that General Marion signed the commission for the celebrated band known as “Marion’s Men.” Among the more prominent descendants of Gilbert Johnston are: (1) James, who became a Colonel on the staff of General Rutherford during the Revolution and served in several engagements; (2) William, M.D., who married a daughter of General Peter Forney, and died in 1855. This William had five sons: (1) James, a Captain in the Confederate Army; (2) Robert, a Brigadier-General; (3) William, a Colonel; (4) Joseph Forney, born in 1843, Captain in the Confederate Army, Governor of Alabama from 1896 to 1900, and United States Senator for Alabama in 1907; (5) Bartlett, an officer in the Confederate Navy. Samuel Johnston, a nephew of Gilbert’s, was the Naval Officer of North Carolina in 1775, Treasurer during the Revolution, and Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789, President of the Convention that finally adopted the State Constitution, and first Senator elected by his state in the United States Congress in 1789. His son, James, was the largest planter in the United States on his death in 1865. Gilbert’s brother Robert, was an attorney and civil engineer. His son, Peter, served as Lieutenant in the legion which Colonel Henry Lee recruited in Virginia, and after the war became Judge of the South-Western Circuit in Virginia, and Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. He married Mary Wood, a niece of Patrick Henry. Their eighth son, Joseph Eccleston Johnston, born in 1807, graduated from West Point in 1829, served in the Federal Army in all its campaigns, up to the time of the Civil War. Although holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and Quarter-Master-General, he resigned and joined the Confederate Army, and rendered brilliant service in its ranks. Another eminent individual of this name was General Albert Sydney Johnston, the son of a physician, John Johnston, the descendant of a Scottish family long settled in Connecticut. Christopher Johnston (1822-1891), a descendant of the Poldean branch of the Annandale Johnstons, was professor of surgery in the University of Maryland. His son, also named Christopher (d. 1914), graduated M.D., practised for eight years, studied ancient and modern languages, and eventually became Professor of Oriental History and Archaeology in Johns Hopkins University. He was one of the most distinguished Oriental scholars this country has produced.
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), one of the founders of the Republic, served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, but it was as a Statesman of the highest ability that he acquired his great fame. He was one of the most prominent Members of the Continental Congress (1782-83), of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and Secretary of the Treasury (1789-95). He was born in the West Indies, the son of a Scots father and a French mother.
Thomas Leiper (1745-1825), born in Strathaven, Lanarkshire, emigrated to Maryland in 1763, was one of the first to favor separation from the mother country, and raised a fund for open resistance to the Crown.
Robert Stuart (1785-1848), pioneer and fur-trader, born at Callander, Perthshire, a grandson of Rob Roy’s bitterest enemy. In 1810, in company with his uncle, John Jacob Astor, and several others, he founded the fur-trading colony of Astoria. His share in this undertaking is fully described in Washington Irving’s Astoria. In 1817 Stuart settled at Mackinac as agent of the American Fur Company, and also served as Commissioner for the Indian tribes. General George Bartram, of Scottish parentage, was one of the “Committee of Correspondence” appointed to take action on the “Chesapeake Affair” in 1807, when war with Britain seemed imminent, and was active in military affairs during the war of 1812. Allan Pinkerton (1819-84), born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, organized the United States Secret Service Division of the United States Army in 1861, discovered the plot to assassinate President Lincoln on his way to his inauguration in 1861, and also broke up the “Molly Maguires,” etc. William Walker (1824-60), the filibuster, was born in Tennessee of Scots parentage.
Rev. George Keith, a native of Aberdeen, became Surveyor-General of New Jersey in 1684. He founded the town of Freehold and marked out the dividing line between East and West Jersey. In 1693 he issued the first printed protest against human slavery, “An Exhortation & Caution to Friends concerning Buying and Keeping of Negroes,” New York, 1693. James Alexander (1690-1756), a Scot, was disbarred for attempting the defense of John Peter Zenger, the printer, in 1735. Along with Benjamin Franklin he was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society. Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741), the most eminent lawyer of his time, Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, and chief Commissioner for building Independence Hall in Philadelphia, was born in Scotland. For his championship of the freedom of the press and his successful defense of Zenger he was hailed by Governor Morris as “the day-star of the Revolution.” His son James Hamilton, was the first native-born Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Philadelphia. James Breghin or Brechin, Missionary, born in Scotland, took a prominent part in the affairs of Virginia (1705-19) and was an active supporter of Commissary Blair. Charles Anderson, another Missionary, probably a graduate of Aberdeen, served in Virginia from 1700 to 1719, was also a supporter of Blair. James Graham, first Recorder of the city of New York (1683-1700) and Speaker of Assembly (1691-99) was born in Scotland. Thomas Gordon (d. Perth Amboy, 1722), born in Pitlochrie, was Attorney-General of the Eastern District (1698), Chief Secretary and Registrar in 1702, later Speaker of Assembly, and in 1709 Chief Justice and Receiver-General
George Rogers Clark (1752-1818), to whose prowess is due the possession of the territory Northwest of the Ohio, secured by the peace of 1783, was of Scottish descent. David Crockett (1786-1836), was most probably of the same origin, though vaguely said to be “son of an Irishman.” The name is distinctly Scottish (Dumfriesshire). Samuel McDowell (1735-1817), took an active part in the movement leading to the War of Independence and was President of the first State Constitutional Convention of Kentucky (1792). Colonel James Innes, born in Canisbay, Caithness, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of all the forces in the expedition to the Ohio in 1754 by Governor Dinwiddie.
Isaac Magoon, a Scot, was the first settler of the town of Scotland (c. 1700), and gave it the name of his native country. Dr. John Stevenson, a Scot, pioneer merchant and developer of Baltimore, if not indeed its actual founder, was known as the “American Romulus.” George Walker, a native of Clackmannanshire, pointed out the advantages of the present site of the Capital of the United States, and George Buchanan, another Scot, laid out Baltimore town in 1730. John Kinzie (1763-1828), the founder of Chicago, was born in Canada of Scottish parentage, the son of John MacKenzie. It is not known why he dropped the “Mac.” Samuel Wilkeson (1781-1848), the man who developed Buffalo from a village to a city, was of Scottish descent. Alexander White (1814-72), born in Elgin, Scotland, was one of the earliest settlers of Chicago and did much to develop the city. Major Hugh McAlister, who served in the Revolutionary War, later founded the town of McAlisterville, Pennsylvania, was of Scots parentage. James Robertson (1742-1814), founder of Nashville, Tennessee, was of Scottish origin. His services are ranked next to Sevier’s in the history of his adopted state. Walter Scott Gordon (1848-86), founder of Sheffield, Alabama, was the great-grandson of a Scot. The town of Paterson, in Putnam county, New York, was settled by Matthew Paterson, a Scottish stone-mason, in the middle of the eighteenth century, and was named after him. Lairdsville, in New York state, was named from Samuel Laird, son of a Scottish immigrant, in beginning of the eighteenth century. Paris Gibson (b. 1830), grandson of a Scot, founded and developed the town of Great Falls.
Of the colonial Governors sent from Britain to the American Colonies before the Revolution and of Provincial Governors from that time to 1789, a large number were of Scottish birth or descent. Among them may be mentioned the following:
NEW YORK. Robert Hunter, Governor (1710-19), previously Governor of Virginia, was a descendant of the Hunters of Hunterston, Ayrshire. He died Governor of Jamaica (1734). He was described as one of the ablest of the men sent over from Britain to fill public positions. William Burnet (1688-1729), Governor in 1720, was also Governor of Massachusetts (1720-1729). He was the eldest son of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Sarum. Smith, the historian of New York, calls him “a man of sense and polite breeding, a well bred scholar.” John Montgomerie, Governor of New York and New Jersey (1728-31), was born in Scotland. John Hamilton, Governor (1736). Cadwallader Golden (1688-1776), Lieutenant-Governor (1761-1776), born in Duns, Berwickshire, was distinguished as physician, botanist, mathematician, and did much to develop the resources of the state. O’Callaghan in his “Documentary History of the State of New York,” says: “Posterity will not fail to accord justice to the character and memory of a man to whom this country is most deeply indebted for much of its science and for many of its most important institutions, and of whom the State of New York may well be proud.” John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1770-71), afterwards Governor of Virginia. James Robertson (1710-1788), born in Fifeshire, was Governor in 1780. Andrew Elliot, born in Scotland in 1728, was Lieutenant-Governor and administered the royalist government from 1781 to November, 1783.
NEW JERSEY. Robert Barclay of the Quaker family of Barclay of Ury was appointed Governor of East New Jersey in 1682, but never visited his territory. Lord Neil Campbell, son of the ninth Earl of Argyll, was appointed Governor in 1687, but meddled little in the affairs of the colony. Andrew Hamilton (c. 1627-1703), his deputy, born in Edinburgh, on Lord Neil Campbell’s departure, became Acting Governor. He was an active, energetic officer, who rendered good service to the state, and organized the first postal service in the colonies. John Hamilton, son of Andrew, was Acting Governor for a time and died at Perth Amboy in 1746. William Livingston (1723-90), the “Don Quixote of New Jersey,” grandson of Robert Livingston of Ancrum, Scotland, founder of the Livingston family in America, so famous in the history of New York State, was Governor from 1776 to 1790. William Paterson (1745-1806), of Ulster Scot birth, studied at Princeton, admitted to the New Jersey bar in November, 1767, Attorney-General in 1776, first Senator from New Jersey to first Congress (1789), succeeded Livingston as Governor (1790-92), and in 1793 became Justice of the Supreme Court. The city of Paterson is named after him.
PENNSYLVANIA. Andrew Hamilton, Governor (1701-03), was previously Governor of East and West Jersey. Sir William Keith (1680-1751), born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Deputy Governor from 1717 to 1726. Patrick Gordon (1644-1736), Governor (1726-28). James Logan (1674-1751), born in County Armagh, son of Patrick Logan, of Scottish parentage, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1731 to 1739, and President of the Council (1736-38). He bequeathed his library of over two thousand volumes to Philadelphia, and they now form the “Loganian Library” in the Philadelphia Public Library. James Hamilton (c. 1710-1783), son of Andrew Hamilton, champion of the liberty of the press, was elected Member of the Provincial Assembly when but twenty years of age, and was re-elected five times. He was Deputy Governor 1748-54 and 1759-63. Robert Hunter Morris, of the famous New Jersey family of that name, Deputy Governor (1745-56). Joseph Reed, of Ulster Scot descent, Governor (1778-81). John Dickinson was President from 1782 to 1785.
DELAWARE. Dr. John McKinly (1721-96), first Governor of the state (1777), was of Ulster Scot birth. (All the above Governors of Pennsylvania except Reed also held the governorship of Delaware along with that of Pennsylvania.)
VIRGINIA. Robert Hunter (1707). (See above under New York.) Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor (1710-22), a scion of the Spotswood of that Ilk. He was one of the ablest and most popular representatives of the crown authority in the Colonies and was the principal encourager of the growth of tobacco which laid the foundation of Virginia’s wealth. Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant-Governor (1722-26), was strongly opposed to the introduction of slavery into the colony. Commissary James Blair (1655-1743), President of Council (1740-41), was born in Scotland. Robert Dinwiddie, born in Glasgow in 1693, was Governor from 1751 to 1758. He recommended the annexation of the Ohio Valley and so secured that great territory to the United States. To him is also due the credit of calling George Washington to the service of his country. Dinwiddie county is named after him. John Campbell, Earl of Loudon (1705-82), Governor (1756-58), does not appear to have come to this colony. John Blair, Governor (1768), son of Dr. Archibald Blair and nephew of Rev. James Blair, the Commissary. Many of his descendants have distinguished themselves in the annals of Virginia. John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1771-75), was previously Governor of New York. Patrick Henry (1736-99), Governor (1776-79, 1784-86), was born in Hanover County, Virginia, of Scottish parentage, his father being a native of Aberdeen, his grandmother a cousin of William Robertson the historian. He became a lawyer in 1760 and in 1763 found his opportunity, when having been employed to plead against an unpopular tax, his great eloquence seemed suddenly to develop itself. This defence placed him at once in the
NORTH CAROLINA. William Drummond, Governor of “Albemarle County Colony” (i.e., North Carolina), was a native of Perthshire, a strenuous upholder of the rights of the people, and ranks as one of the earliest of American patriots. He took a prominent part in “Bacon’s Rebellion” in 1676, “an insurrection that was brought about by the insolence and pig-headedness of Sir William Berkeley, then Governor of Virginia,” and was executed the same year. Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752), Governor (1734-52), was born in Scotland, and held the Professorship of Oriental Languages in St. Andrews University before coming to the colonies. Johnston County is named after him. Matthew Rowan was President of Council and Acting Governor in 1753. Alexander Martin (1740-1807), was fourth and Acting Governor, 1782-84, and from 1789 to 1792. Samuel Johnston (1733-1816), sixth Governor (1788-89), four years Senator, and Justice of the Supreme Court from 1800-1803. Bancroft says the movement for freedom was assisted by “the calm wisdom of Samuel Johnston, a native of Dundee, in Scotland, a man revered for his integrity, thoroughly opposed to disorder and revolution, if revolution could be avoided without yielding to oppression.”
SOUTH CAROLINA. Richard Kirk, Governor (1684). James Glen, born in Linlithgow in 1701, Governor (1743-56). Lord William Campbell, third brother of the fifth Duke of Argyll, Governor (1775). John Rutledge (1739-1800), brother of Edward Rutledge the Signer, was President of South Carolina (1776-78) and first Governor (1779-82). He was later a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1789-91), Chief Justice of South Carolina (1791-95), and in 1795 appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
GEORGIA. William Erwin or Ewen, born in England in 1775. John Houston, son of Sir Patrick Houston, one of the prime instigators and organizers of the Sons of Liberty (1774), was Governor in 1774-76, 1778. His portrait was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. Houston County was named in his honor. Edward Telfair, born in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in 1735 and died at Savannah in 1807. When the revolutionary troubles commenced he earnestly espoused the side of the colonies, and became known locally as an ardent advocate of liberty. He was regarded as the foremost citizen of his adopted state, and his death was deeply mourned throughout the state.
FLORIDA. George Johnstone, a member of the family of Johnstone of Westerhall, was nominal Governor of Florida when that colony was ceded by Spain to Great Britain in 1763. He was one of the Commissioners appointed by the British government to try and restore peace in America in 1778.
Presbyterians in the Colonies, being dissenters, were untrammeled and free to speak their mind in defence of their country’s right, and history shows that they did not fail their opportunity: the doctrine of passive obedience never finding favor with them. In the Colonies the Presbyterian ministers claimed equal rights, religious freedom, and civil liberty. Their teaching had great influence, particularly in the South, and Patrick Henry of Virginia, David Caldwell, Dr. Ephraim Brevard, Rev. Alexander Craighead (d. 1766), and James Hall of North Carolina, the two Rutledges and Tennant of South Carolina, William Murdoch of Maryland, James Wilson and Thomas Craighead of Pennsylvania, Witherspoon of New Jersey, Read and McKean of Delaware, Livingston of New York, and Thornton of New Hampshire, with their associates had prepared the people for the coming conflict. In Maryland the lower house of the General Assembly was a fortress of popular rights and of civil liberty. Its resolutions and messages, beginning in 1733, and in an uninterrupted chain until 1755 continually declared “that it is the peculiar right of his Majesty’s subjects not to be liable to any tax or other imposition but what is laid on them by laws to which they themselves are a party.” These principles were reiterated and recorded upon the journals of every Assembly until 1771. The resolutions, addresses, and messages of the lower house during this period discuss with remarkable fullness and accuracy the fundamental principles of free government, and most of them emanated from William Murdoch, born in Scotland (c. 1720), who was one of the leading spirits and the directing force of the discussion. He led in the resistance to the Stamp Act and in other ways he united his colony in solid resistance to the attempt to levy taxes and imposts without their consent. In May, 1775, the General Synod of the Presbyterian Church met in Philadelphia
Of the fifty-six Signers of the Declaration of Independence, no less than nine can be claimed as directly or indirectly of Scottish origin. Edward Rutledge (1749-1800), the youngest Signer, was a son of Dr. John Rutledge who emigrated from Ulster to South Carolina in 1735. The Rutledges were a small Border clan in Roxburghshire. William Hooper (1742-1790), was the son of a Scottish minister, who was born near Kelso and died in Boston in 1767. Hooper early displayed marked literary ability and entered Harvard University when fifteen years of age. At twenty-six he was one of the leading lawyers of the colony of North Carolina. George Ross (1730-79), was also of Scottish parentage. His nephew’s wife, Elizabeth (Griscom) Ross (1752-1832), better known as “Betsy Ross,” was maker of the first national flag. Matthew Thornton (1714-1803), the distinguished New Hampshire statesman and physician, was brought to this country from the north of Ireland by his father when about three years of age. He accompanied the expedition against Louisburg in 1745, was President of the Provincial Convention in 1775 and Speaker in January, 1776. In September, 1776, he was elected to Congress, and in November following signed the Declaration of Independence, although he had not been one of the framers. Thomas McKean (1734-1817), was a great-grandson of William McKean of Argyllshire who moved to Ulster about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a member of Congress from Delaware (1774-83), Chief Justice of Pennsylvania (1777-99), and Governor of the state from 1799 to 1808. George Taylor (1716-81), described as the son of a clergyman and “born in Ireland,” was most probably an Ulster Scot. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania from 1764 to 1770 and again in 1775. James Wilson (1742-1798), whose fame was to become as wide and lasting as the nation, was born in St. Andrews, the old university city of Fifeshire. He was a Delegate to Congress from Pennsylvania in 1776, Member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 till his death. He strongly advocated independence as the only possible means of escape from the evils which had brought the various commonwealths into such a state of turmoil and dissatisfaction. Philip Livingston (1716-1778), grandson of Robert Livingston, the first of the American family of the name, was Member of Congress from New York in 1776. “His life was distinguished for inflexible rectitude and devotion to the interests of his country.”
Last but greatest of all to be mentioned is the Rev. John Witherspoon (1722-94). Born in Yester, Scotland, educated in Edinburgh, minister in Paisley, he was called in 1768 to be President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. He said he had “become an American the moment he landed.” He took an active part in the public affairs of the colony of New Jersey, and in the convention which met
Of the twenty-nine Presidents of the United States five (Monroe, Grant, Hayes, Roosevelt, and Wilson) are of Scottish descent, and four (omitting Jackson who has been also claimed as Scottish by some writers) are of Ulster Scot descent, namely, Polk, Buchanan, Arthur, and McKinley. Jackson may possibly have been of Ulster Scot descent as his father belonged to Carrickfergus while his, mother’s maiden name, Elizabeth Hutchins, or Hutchinson, is Scottish. She came of a family of linen weavers. Benjamin Harrison might also have been included as he had some Scottish (Gordon) blood. His wife, Caroline Scott Harrison, was of Scottish descent.
James Monroe, fifth President, was descended from Andrew Monroe, who emigrated from Scotland in the middle of the seventeenth century. President Grant was a descendant of Matthew Grant, who came from Scotland to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. George Hayes, ancestor of Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President, was a Scot who settled in Windsor prior to 1680. Theodore Roosevelt was Dutch on his father’s side and Scottish on his mother’s. His mother was descended from James Bulloch, born in Scotland about 1701, who emigrated to Charleston, c. 1728, and founded a family which became prominent in the annals of Georgia. Woodrow Wilson’s paternal grandfather, James Wilson, came from county Down in 1807. His mother, Janet (or Jessie) Woodrow, was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Woodrow, a native of Paisley, Scotland. James Knox Polk, eleventh President, was a great-great-grandson of Robert Polk or Pollok, who came from Ayrshire through Ulster. Many kinsmen of President Polk have distinguished themselves in the annals of this country. James Buchanan, fifteenth President, was of Ulster Scot parentage. Chester Alan Arthur, twenty-first President, was the son of a Belfast minister of Scottish descent. William McKinley, twenty-fifth President, was descended from David McKinley, an Ulster Scot, born about 1730, and his wife, Rachel Stewart. The surname McKinley in Ireland occurs only in Ulster Scot territory.
Of the Vice-Presidents of the United States six at least were of Scottish or Ulster Scot descent.
John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), of Scottish descent on both sides. Previous to becoming Vice-President he was Secretary of War in Monroe’s cabinet, and later was Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Tyler. He was one of the chief instruments in securing the annexation of Texas. George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864), son of Alexander James Dallas, Secretary of the Treasury, was Minister to Russia in 1837-39, and subsequent to his Vice-Presidency was Minister to Great Britain (1856-61). John Cabell Breckenridge (1821-75), of direct Scottish descent, was Vice-President from 1857-61, candidate for President in 1860, Major-General in the Confederate Army (1862-64), and Confederate Secretary of War (1864-65). Henry Wilson (1812-75), of Ulster Scot descent, had a distinguished career as United States Senator before his election to the Vice-Presidency (1873-75). His original name was Jeremiah Jones Colbraith (i.e., Galbraith). He was also a distinguished author, his most important work being the “History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America” (1872-75). Thomas Andrews Hendricks (1819-85), who held the Vice-Presidency only for a few months (March to November, 1885), was of Scottish descent on his mother’s side. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1914) was Member of Congress from Illinois (1875-77), and First Assistant Postmaster-General (1885-89), previous to becoming Vice-President (1893-97).
WAR. William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), descended from David Crawford, who came from Scotland to Virginia, c. 1654. Secretary of War (1615-16), Secretary of the Treasury (1816-25), and save for an unfortunate attack of paralysis, would have been President in 1824. He was also United States Senator from Georgia (1807-13) and Minister to France (1813-15). John Bell (1797-1869), Secretary (1841), Senator (1847-59), and candidate of the Constitutional Union Party for President in 1860, was probably of Scottish descent. George Washington Crawford, Secretary of War, was also Governor of Georgia. Simon Cameron (1799-1889), of Scottish parentage or descent, Senator (1845-49), Secretary of War in cabinet of Lincoln (1861-62), United States Minister to Russia (1862-63), and again Senator (1866-77). James Donald Cameron (1833-1918), son of the preceding, was Secretary under Grant for a year and United States Senator from 1877 to 1897. Daniel Scott Lamont (1851-1905), journalist and Secretary under Cleveland, was of Ulster Scot origin.
TREASURY. George Washington Campbell (1768-1848), Secretary (1814), was also Minister to Russia (1810-20). Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817), Secretary (1814-16), was the son of a Scottish physician, Dr. Robert C. Dallas. During 1815-16 he also discharged the functions of Secretary of War. Had a distinguished career as a statesman. Louis McLane (1776-1857), son of Allen McLane, a Revolutionary soldier and Speaker of the Legislature of Delaware, had a distinguished career as Senator from Delaware (1827-29), Minister to Great Britain (1829-31), Secretary of the Treasury (1831-33), and Secretary of State (1833-34). His son, Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98), had a distinguished career as a diplomat. James Guthrie (1792-1869), Secretary in the cabinet of President Pierce (1853-57). Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), was United States Senator from Ohio (1831-37), Secretary of the Treasury (1841), Secretary of the Interior (1849-50). He traced his descent from Findlay Ewing, a native of Loch Lomond, who distinguished himself in the Revolution of 1688 under William of Orange. Hugh McCulloch (1808-95), descended from Hugh McCulloch, Bailie of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire, was Comptroller of the Currency (1863-65), Secretary of the Treasury (1865-69, 1884-85). He funded the National Debt during his first term as Secretary. Charles Foster (1825-1904), Governor of Ohio (1880-84), was Secretary of the Treasury from 1891 to 1893. Franklin MacVeagh (b. 1837), of Scottish ancestry, also held the office under President Taft.
INTERIOR. Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (b. 1807), Secretary in President Fillmore’s cabinet, was son of Archibald Stuart, a Scot who fought in Revolutionary War. Thomas Ewing is already referred to (under Treasury). Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, Secretary of the Interior under Garfield, was also three times Governor of Iowa.
NAVY. Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), Secretary (1798-1801), was grandson of a Scot. William Alexander Graham (1804-75), Secretary (1850), was also Governor of North Carolina. He projected the expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry. James Cochrane Dobbin (1814-57). Paul Morton (1857-1911), Secretary (1904-05), was said to be descended from Richard Morton, a blacksmith and ironmaster of Scottish birth, who came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century.
STATE. James Gillespie Blaine (1830-93), Secretary (1881, 1889-92) and unsuccessful candidate for President in 1884. John Hay (1838-1905), one of the ablest Secretaries of State (1898-1905) this country ever had, was also of Scottish descent. He also held several diplomatic posts in Europe (1865-70), culminating in Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98).
AGRICULTURE. James Wilson (1835-1920), Secretary (1897-1913) under McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was Regent of Iowa State University, and in 1891 was elected to the chair of Practical Agriculture in the College of Agriculture and Director of the State Experiment Stations. He was wonderfully successful in the expansion and administration of the “most useful public department in the world.”
LABOR. William Bauchop Wilson, born in Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1862, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America (1900-09); Member of Congress (1907-13), and Chairman of the Committee on Labor in the sixty-second Congress, Secretary of Labor (1913).
POSTMASTER-GENERAL. The first postal service in the Colonies was organized by Andrew Hamilton, a native of Edinburgh, who obtained a patent for a postal scheme from the British Crown in 1694. A memorial stone on the southwest corner of the New York Post Office at Thirty-third Street commemorates the fact. John Maclean (1785-1861), Postmaster-General from 1823 to 1829, was later Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of Ohio, and unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1856 and again in 1860. He took part in the famous Dred Scott case, in which he dissented from Taney, maintaining that slavery had its origin merely in power and was against right. James Campbell (1812-93), of Ulster Scot parentage, Postmaster-General in the cabinet of President Pierce, made a record by reducing the rate of postage and introducing the registry system. Montgomery Blair (1813-83) was Postmaster-General in the cabinet of President Lincoln. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Assistant Postmaster-General, later became Vice-President.
John Ewing Colhoun (1749-1802), Member of State Legislature of South Carolina and Senator from the same state (1801), was of the same family as John C. Calhoun. George Logan (1753-1821), a man of high scientific attainments, grandson of James Logan, Quaker Governor of Pennsylvania, went to France in 1798 with the design of averting war with that country, Senator from Pennsylvania (1801-07). John Rutherfurd (1760-1840) was grandson of Sir John Rutherfurd of Edgerston, Scotland. James Brown (1766-1835), Senator and Minister-Plenipotentiary to France, was of Scottish descent. Jacob Burnet (1770-1853), Jurist and Senator, was the grandson of a Scot. His father, William Burnet (1730-91), was a skilful physician and Member of Congress. John Leeds Kerr (1780-1844), lawyer and Senator, was the son of James Kerr of Monreith. Alexander Campbell (1779-1857), Senator, was of Argyllshire descent. Walter Lowrie (1784-1868), Senator (1819-35) and thereafter Secretary of the Senate for twelve years, was born in Edinburgh. His four sons all became prominent in law and theology. Simon Cameron (1799-1889), grandson of a Cameron who fought at Culloden. His ancestor emigrated to America soon after the ’45 and fought tinder Wolfe against the French at Quebec. Simon Cameron was also for a time Secretary of War in Lincoln’s Cabinet and Minister to Russia. He named his residence at Harrisburg “Lochiel.” His brother James was Colonel of the New York Volunteers, the 79th Highlanders, in the Civil War. James Donald Cameron (b. 1833), son of Simon Cameron, was
Only a very few names of Members of Congress of Scottish birth of descent can be dealt with here. Some additional names will be found in other sections of this work. William Houston (b. about 1755), son of Sir Patrick Houston, was a Member of the Continental Congress. John Morin Scott (1730-84), grandson of the second son of Sir John Scott of Ancrum was Brigadier-General of New York State troops at the Battle of Long Island and Member of Congress from 1779 to 1783. William Burnet (1730-91), of Scottish parentage, physician and Member of Congress. Among his sons the following are worthy of notice: Dr. William Burnet of New Jersey, Major Ichabod Burnet of Georgia, Jacob Burnet, pioneer of Ohio, and David G. Burnet, Provisional President of the Republic of Texas. William Crawford (1760-1823), Member of Congress from 1809 to 1817, was born in Paisley. William Fitzhugh Gordon (1787-1858), Member from Virginia (1829-35), of Scottish descent, is said to have been the originator of the Sub-Treasury system. The town of Gordonsville, Virginia, was named after him or after his family. Leonidas Felix Livingston (b. 1832), grandson of Adam Livingston from Scotland, who served in the Revolutionary War, was a Member of the Georgia Legislature and Member of Congress. John Louis Macdonald (b. 1838), newspaper editor, State Senator, etc., was born in Glasgow. James Buchanan (b. 1839) of Scottish descent, was Member from New Jersey to 49th, 50th, 51st and 52nd Congress. David Bremner Henderson (1840-1906), born at Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, served in the Civil War and lost a leg at Corinth, was Member from Iowa (1880-99), and Speaker of the House of Representatives (1899-1906). William Grant Laidlaw, born near Jedburgh, Scotland, in 1840, served in the Civil War and was Member of Congress from 1887 to 1891. John Edgar Reyburn (b. 1845), Member State Senate of Pennsylvania, Member of Congress 1890-1907; and James Fleming Stewart (1851-1904), were both of Scottish descent.
As with the medical and theological professions the legal has shared the dominating influence of Scotland, and indeed it is perhaps not too much to say that much of the distinctive character of American jurisprudence is due to the influence of men of Scottish blood at the bench and bar. The second Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (John Rutledge) and two of the four original Associate Justices, Blair and Wilson, were of Scottish origin. The mother of John Marshall, the great Chief Justice, was of Scottish origin (Keith). Of fifty judges of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1882, at least fifteen were of Scottish birth or descent. We have space here to deal with only a selection of the most prominent names.
Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831), Chief Justice of New Jersey for twenty-one years, whose “decisions especially those on realty matters, show a depth of research, a power of discrimination, and a justness of reasoning which entitle him to rank among the first American jurists,” was of Scottish parentage, descended from the Kirkpatricks of Dumfriesshire. His son, also named Andrew, was President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County (1885-96) and United States District Judge (1896-1904). George Robertson (1790-1874), Chief Justice of Kentucky (1829-43), “whose name stands first in the list of great men who have occupied and adorned the Appellate bench of Kentucky,” and who declined the offer of the governorship of Arkansas, was of Scottish ancestry. Robert Cooper Grier (1794-1870), Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Connecticut (1846-70) was of same origin. Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-71), descended from Murdoch Nisbet, a Lollard of Kyle, after a brilliant career in the state legislature became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Thomas Todd (1765-1826), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1807-26). The first Chief Justice of Delaware, William Killen (1722-1805), was born in the north of Ireland of Scottish parentage. John J. Milligan (1795-1875), grandson of a Scottish emigrant from Ayrshire, was Associate Justice of Delaware, and refused, on account of ill health, the portfolio of Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Fillimore. Ellis Lewis (1798-1871), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1855-57) was of Scottish descent. Alexander Addison (1759-1807), born in Scotland, became President Judge of the fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania under the constitution of 1770. Robert Hunter Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, was Chief Justice of New Jersey for twenty-one years. John McLean (1785-1861), Associate Justice, is noticed under Scots in the Presidential Cabinet; and William Paterson, Associate Justice (1793-1806), is mentioned under Colonial Governors. Samuel Nelson (1792-1873), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was of Ulster Scot descent. “His decisions have stood the test of time and the searching analysis of the most able lawyers.” Thomas Douglas (1790-1853), first Chief Justice of Florida, was of Scots ancestry. William Wallace Campbell (1806-81), great-grandson of an Ulster Scot, was distinguished as a jurist and as a historian of New York State. He was author of Annals of Tryon County (1831), Border Warfare of New York (1849), Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton (1849), etc. During a visit to Scotland in 1848 he was elected an honorary member of the Clan Campbell at a great gathering at Inveraray. Thomas Drummond (1809-90), grandson of a Scot from Falkirk, was Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. John Archibald Campbell (1811-89), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1853-61), was Assistant Secretary of War in the Confederate Cabinet,
Some of those who have represented this country at foreign courts previously held office in the Cabinet or were Members of the Senate are noted under these headings:
John Graham (1774-1820), Minister-Plenipotentiary to Brazil (1819), was brother of George Graham, Acting Secretary of War in the cabinets of Madison and Monroe. Charles Johnston McCurdy (b. 1797), of Ulster Scot descent, was Minister to Austria (1851-52) and Justice of the Supreme Court. Miller Grieve (1801-78), born in Edinburgh, Representative in the Georgia Legislature, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe University, was Charge d’Affaires at Copenhagen. William Hunter (1774-1849), of Scottish parentage, a scholar and linguist, United States Senator from Rhode Island (1812-20), was Minister-Plenipotentiary to Brazil in 1834. William Bradford Reed (1806-76) was Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to China. Lewis Davis Campbell (1811-82), Chairman Ways and Means Committee in the thirty-fourth Congress, was United States Minister to Mexico. Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98), son of Allen McLane, was United States Minister to China (1853-55), Mexico (1859-60), and France (1885-88). John M. Forbes (d. 1831), descendant of the Scottish family of Forbes, was Secretary of Legation to Buenos Ayres (1823) and Charge d’Affaires (1825-31). James Hepburn Campbell (1820-95) Member of Congress and Minister to Sweden and Norway (1864-67). John Adam Kasson (1822-1910), descendant of Adam Kasson (1721) from Argyllshire, had a distinguished career, the list of honors held by him is long. Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912), one of the half dozen most distinguished representatives of this country abroad was of Scottish descent on both sides. Wayne MacVeagh (b. 1833), of Scottish origin, was United States Minister to Turkey (1870-71), Ambassador to Italy (1893-97), and was also Attorney-General under President Garfield. Thomas Barker Ferguson (b. 1841), diplomat and inventor, was great-grandson of James Ferguson who emigrated from Scotland at end of seventeenth century. He was Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries (1878-87), Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway (1893-97), etc. His grandfather was a Member of the South Carolina Provincial Legislature and Member of the Council of Safety. Whiteside Godfrey Hunter, born in Londonderry in 1841, of Scottish ancestry, was a Member of Congress and Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras. Richard Renshaw Neill (b. 1845), was Secretary of United States Legation at Lima, Peru, and has been Charge d’Affaires there eight different times. Hugh Anderson Dinsmore (b. 1850), of Ulster Scot origin, was Minister Resident and Consul General in Corea (1887-90) and later Member of Congress (1892-1906). John Wallace Riddle (b. 1864), held several diplomatic posts culminating in becoming Ambassador to Russia (1906-09). Thomas Cleland Dawson (b. 1865), son of a native of Clackmannan, was Secretary of the American Legation to Brazil (1897-1904), Minister Resident and Consul General to Santo Domingo (1904), and author of “South American Republics,” a standard work (2 v. 1903-4). George Brinton McClellan Harvey the present Ambassador to Great Britain is descended from Stuart Harvey who came from Scotland in 1820.
MAINE. Robert Pinckney Dunlap (1794-1859), eighth governor, and Hugh Johnston Anderson (1801-81), fourteenth Governor (1844-47), were of Ulster Scot descent. Abner Coburn (1803-85), twenty-fourth Governor, was also most probably of Scottish or Ulster Scot descent.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Jeremiah Smith, fourth Governor (1809-10), was of Ulster Scot parentage. His son, of the same name, was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the state. Samuel Bell (1770-1850), a descendant of one of the Ulster Scot settlers of 1718, was three times elected Governor (1819-23) with little or no opposition. John Bell (1765-1836), his brother, was thirteenth Governor (1828-29). Joseph Merrill Harper (1789-1865), who served as acting Governor in 1831, was of Ulster Scot descent. Samuel Dinsmoor (1766-1835), sixteenth Governor (1831-33), a distinguished factor in the history of his state, was of Ulster Scot descent on both sides. His eldest son (1799-1869), also named Samuel, served as twenty-fourth Governor (1849-52). Noah Martin (1801-63), of Ulster Scot descent on both sides, was the twenty-fifth Governor. Charles Henry Bell (1823-93), son of Governor John Bell, was forty-first Governor of the state. John Butler Smith, forty-seventh Governor (1893-95), was a descendant of one of the settlers of 1718. John McLane (1852-1911) fifty-seventh Governor (1905-06), was born in Lennoxtown, Scotland. He was host at the Russian-Japanese Conference at Portsmouth.
VERMONT. Charles James Bell, fiftieth Governor (1905), was descended from one of the Londonderry, N.H., settlers of 1718. John Wolcott Stewart, thirty-third Governor (1870-72), was descended from Robert Stewart who went from Edinburgh to Londonderry, Ireland, and whose son was one of those who emigrated from there to Londonderry, N.H., in 1718. His grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War.
MASSACHUSETTS. William Claflin (1818-1905), twenty-third Governor, was a descendant of one of the Scots prisoners taken at the battle of Dunbar in 1650.
RHODE ISLAND. General Ambrose E. Burnside (1824-81), Governor (1867-69). William Gregory (1849-1901), forty-second Governor (1900-01), was of direct Scottish descent.
CONNECTICUT. George Payne McLean, forty-first Governor (1901-03), was of Scottish descent.
DELAWARE. Charles Polk (1788-1857), thirteenth Governor (1827-30), and President of the Constitutional Convention of his state in 1831, was of Ulster Scot descent. John P. Cochran (1809-98), twenty-sixth Governor (1875-79), was of the same origin.
PENNSYLVANIA. Thomas McKean, Governor (1799-1808), is already noticed under Signers of the Declaration of Independence. William Findlay (1768-1846), fourth Governor (1817-20), of Ulster Scot descent, was also United States Senator and Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia. William Freame Johnston (1802-72), Governor from 1848 to 1852, was of Scottish parentage. He did much to develop the oil region of Pennsylvania, and was also President of the Allegheny Valley Railroad. James Pollock (1810-90), Governor (1855-58). It was through his efforts that “In God we trust” was placed on the coinage. John White Geary (1819-73), Governor from 1867 to 1873, was of Ulster Scot descent.
MARYLAND. John Francis Mercer (1759-1821), eleventh Governor (1801-03), was a descendant of the Mercers of Aldie, Perthshire. Robert Bowie (1749-1818), twelfth and fifteenth Governor (1803-06, 1811-12), and Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98), forty-second Governor (1884-85), were of direct Scottish descent. Frank Brown, forty-fifth Governor (1892-96), was descended from Abel Brown who emigrated from Dumfries, c. 1730.
VIRGINIA. James Barbour (1776-1842) was eleventh Governor (1812-14). Barbour County, Florida, was named in his honor. David Campbell (1779-1859), twenty-first Governor (1837-40), was of Scottish descent on both sides. Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-44), twenty-second Governor (1840-41) was a descendant of the Scottish physician, Dr. George Gilmer. John Mercer Patton (1797-1858), Lieutenant-Governor and acting Governor (1841), was son of Robert Patton who emigrated from Scotland. His mother was a daughter of Gen. Hugh Mercer. John Rutherford (1792-1865), twenty-third Governor (1841-42), was most probably of Scottish descent. William Ewan Cameron, thirty-sixth Governor (1882-86) descended from the Rev. John Cameron, a graduate of Aberdeen University, who came to America, c. 1770. Henry Carter Stuart (b. 1855), Governor (1914-18), descended from Archibald Stuart who fled from Scotland for political reasons and settled in Virginia in 1726.
WEST VIRGINIA. William Erskine Stevenson (1820-1883), second Governor (1869-71) was born of Ulster Scot parentage. William Alexander Mac Corkle (b. 1857), eighth Governor (1893-97) is of Scottish descent. His grandfathers, Captain John MacCorkle and Captain John McNutt, fell at the battle of Cowpens, 1781.
NORTH CAROLINA. Nathaniel Alexander (1756-1808), thirteenth Governor (1805-07), was of Scottish descent. William Alexander Graham (1804-75), thirtieth Governor (1845-49), was son of Gen. Joseph Graham, a Revolutionary officer. He was also Secretary of the Navy in 1850, and projected the expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry. Tod R. Caldwell (1818-74), fortieth Governor (1871-74), and David Lindsay Russell, forty-eighth Governor (1897-1901), were both of direct Scottish descent.
SOUTH CAROLINA. General William Moultrie, son of Dr. Moultrie, was Governor in 1785-87 and 1794-96. Edward Rutledge, tenth Governor (1798-1800), is already noticed under the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. “No measure of importance was adopted by the legislature without his taking part in it, while many originated with himself.” Andrew Pickens, (1779-1838), nineteenth Governor (1816-18), was a son of Andrew Pickens, the noted Revolutionary general. John Geddes (1777-1828), twentieth Governor (1818-20), was of Scottish descent. Stephen Decatur Miller (1787-1838), twenty-fifth Governor (1828-30), also served as United States Senator. George McDuffie (1790-1851), twenty-eighth Governor, the greatest orator and statesman of Georgia, was of Scottish parentage on both sides. McDuffie County in Georgia is so named in his honor. Patrick Noble (1787-1840), thirtieth Governor (1838-40), was grandson of an Ulster Scot immigrant. Robert Kingston Scott (1826-1900), forty-fifth Governor (1868-72), was the grandson or great-grandson of a refugee from Culloden.
GEORGIA. David Brodie Mitchell (1766-1837), ninth Governor (1809-11, 1815-17), was born in Scotland. He was described as “a conscientious, cultured, and conservative man, of great energy, public spirit, and animated by the purest patriotism.” George McIntosh Troup (1780-1856), the “Hercules of State Rights,” fourteenth Governor (1823-27), was of Scottish descent on both sides. He was one of Georgia’s most illustrious Chief Magistrates. A county in the state is named after him. John Forsyth (1780-1841), fifteenth Governor (1827-29), was also United States Secretary of State. George Rockingham Gilmer (1790-1859), sixteenth Governor (1829-31, 1837-39), was the grandson of a Scottish physician, Dr. George Gilmer. He was also Member of Congress. He also wrote a work, “Georgians,” 1855, containing much valuable matter relating to the early settlers of his state. Charles James McDonald (1793-1860), nineteenth Governor (1839-43), and George Washington Crawford (1798-1872), twentieth Governor (1843-47), were both of Scottish descent. James Johnson, twenty-fifth Governor (1861), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant. He rendered great service to his state in its reconstruction after the war. Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-83), grandson of an adherent of Prince Charles Edward, was Vice-President of the Confederacy (1861-65), chief Confederate Commissioner in the Hampton Roads Conference in February, 1865, Member of Congress from Georgia (1873-82), Governor of the state (1883), and author of “The War Between the States” (1868-70) and of a “History of the United States” (1883). John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), thirty-fifth Governor (1886-90), was the great-grandson of one of seven brothers who emigrated from Scotland, all of whom served in the Revolutionary Army. As Governor his administration was faultless, and the New York Sun declared his inauguration “worthy of Thomas Jefferson.”
FLORIDA. Francis Philip Fleming (b. 1841), fourteenth Governor (1889-93), was of Scottish descent. Alexander Walker Gilchrist, nineteenth Governor (1909), a descendant of Nimrod Gilchrist, who came from Glasgow in 1750.
ALABAMA. Israel Pickens (1780-1827), third Governor (1821-25), Democratic Member of Congress from North Carolina (1811-17), United States Senator (1826), was of Scottish descent. Reuben Chapman (1802-82), eleventh Governor (1847-49), was also of Scottish ancestry. Robert Miller Patton (1809-85), seventeenth Governor (1865-68), was Ulster Scot on his father’s side and Scottish on his mother’s. Robert Burns Lindsay, born in Dumfriesshire in 1824, a linguist and a scholar, educated at the University of St. Andrews, was nineteenth Governor (1870-72). George Smith Houston (1811-79), twenty-first Governor, and Joseph Forney Johnston (b. 1843), twenty-seventh Governor (1896-1900), were both of Scottish descent.
TENNESSEE. Joseph McMinn (d. 1824), fifth Governor (1815-21), was most probably of Scottish descent. Samuel Houston, seventh Governor (1827-28), is noticed under Texas. Neil S. Brown, fourteenth Governor (1847-49), was grandson of Angus Brown, a Scot who fought in the Revolutionary War under Gen. Francis Marion. William Bowen Campbell (1807-67), sixteenth Governor (1851-53), was also of Scottish descent. Benton McMillin (b. 1845), Governor (1899-1903), Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to Peru in 1913, of Ulster Scot descent.
KENTUCKY. John Adair (1797-1840), eighth Governor (1820-24), was of Scottish parentage. “His term was marked by great legislative activity for the promotion of education in the state, and by the abolition of imprisonment for debt.” The state library was founded under his auspices. Adair county was so named in his honor. John Breathitt (1786-1834), Lieutenant-Governor (1828-32), and eleventh Governor (1832-34), was the son of a Scottish emigrant. “A man of high character and his public career irreproachable.” Breathitt county was named after him. James Fisher Robinson (1800-92), twenty-second Governor, was of English and Scottish descent.
OHIO. Duncan McArthur (1772-1840), an early Governor (1830-32), was of Scottish ancestry. He also held the rank of General in the war of 1812. Jeremiah Morrow (1770-1852), Governor (1822-26), and Allen Trimble (1783-1870), Governor (1826-30), were both Ulster Scot descent. James E. Campbell (b. 1843), Governor (1890-92), was previously Member of Congress. James M. Cox (b. 1870), forty-sixth Governor (1913-15) is of Scottish ancestry.
INDIANA. Noah Noble, fifth Governor (1831-37), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant. David Wallace (1799-1859), sixth Governor (1837-40), and Samuel Bigger (1802-46), were also of Scottish ancestry. Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Governor from 1873 to 1877, is already noticed under Vice-Presidents.
MICHIGAN. Robert McClelland (1807-80), Governor (1851-53), afterwards Secretary of the Interior; and Austin Blair (1814-94), war Governor, who sent over 83,000 soldiers from his state during the Civil War, were both of Scottish ancestry.
WISCONSIN. The mother of Henry Dodge, first and fourth Governor (1836-41, 1845-48), was Anne Nancy Hunter, of Ulster Scot parentage. William E. Smith (1824-83), thirteenth Governor (1878-82), was born in Scotland.
ILLINOIS. William Lee Davidson Ewing (1795-1846), Senator and acting Governor (1834), was of Ulster Scot descent. Joseph Duncan (1794-1844), fifth Governor (1834-38), who greatly encouraged education in his state, was of Scottish ancestry. John Lourie Beveridge (b. 1824) fifteenth Governor, was grandson of a Scot who came to the United States about 1770. His “administration was vigorous, just, and impartial.”
MISSISSIPPI. John J. McRae (1815-68), nineteenth Governor (1854-58), was of Scottish descent. William McWillie (1795-1869), twentieth Governor (1858-60), and Anselm Joseph McLaurin (b. 1848), thirty-second Governor (1896-1900), were-both grandsons of Scots.
LOUISIANA. John McEnery (1833-91), nineteenth (unrecognized) Governor (1873), was of Scottish descent. Samuel Douglas McEnery (b. 1837), brother of the preceding, was twenty-second Governor (1881-88). John Newton Pharr (1829-1903), elected Governor in 1896 but not seated on account of the negro question, was descended from Walter Pharr who came from Scotland in 1765.
MISSOURI. Alexander McNair (1774-1826), first state Governor (1820-24), most probably was of Scottish birth or descent. Trusten Polk (1811-76), of same origin as President Polk, was eleventh Governor (1857). Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826-85), also of Scottish descent, was Governor from 1871 to 1873, and unsuccessful candidate for Vice-President in 1872.
IOWA. John Chambers (1780-1852), second Governor of the territory of Iowa was of Scottish descent on both sides. James Wilson Grimes (1816-72), third Governor (1854-58), was of Ulster Scot descent. Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (1813-94), three times Governor of his state (1860-64, 1876-77), was descended from a brother of Captain Robert Kirkwood, a Delaware soldier of the Revolution. He was also Secretary of the Interior under Garfield. John Henry Gear (1825-1900), eleventh Governor (1878-82), Assitsant Secretary of United States Treasury (1892-93), and Senator (1895-1900), was of Scottish ancestry. Albert Baird Cummins, eighteenth Governor, of Ulster Scot ancestry.
MINNESOTA. Alexander Ramsey, first territorial and second state Governor (1849-53, 1860-64), was grandson of an Ulster Scot who served in the Revolutionary War.
NEBRASKA. James E. Boyd (b. 1834), eighth Governor (1891-92), was born in county Tyrone of Ulster Scot ancestry.
KANSAS. John Alexander Martin (1839-89), ninth Governor (1885-89), was of Ulster Scot descent.
TEXAS. Samuel Houston (1793-1863) was a descendant of John Houston who settled in Philadelphia in 1689. He was Member of Congress from Tennessee (1823-27), Governor of Tennessee (1827-28), and as Commander-in-Chief of the Texans he defeated the Mexicans under Santa Anna in 1836 on the banks of the San Jacinto, and by this one blow achieved the independence of Texas. He was elected first President of the new republic in the same year, was re-elected in 1841, and in 1859 was elected Governor of the state. Houston, the capital of Harris County, Texas, was named in his honor. Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-98), third Governor (1849-53), was of Ulster Scot ancestry, as was also James Edward Ferguson (b. 1871). James Stephen Hogg, nineteenth Governor and Thomas Mitchell Campbell, twenty-third Governor, were of Scottish descent.
COLORADO. Edward Moody McCook, fifth and seventh Governor (1869-73, 1874-75), was of Scottish descent. He also served in the Civil War and attained the rank of Brigadier-General. James Benton Grant, tenth Governor (1883-85), was grandson of a Scottish immigrant. Jesse Fuller McDonald, twenty-third Governor (1905-07), a descendant of James McDonald who emigrated from Scotland early in the eighteenth century and settled in Maine.
WYOMING. Thomas Moonlight (1833-99), sixth territorial Governor (1887-90), was born in Forfarshire.
UTAH. Eli Houston Murray (b. 1841), Governor (1880-84), of Scottish ancestry.
IDAHO. John Henry Brady (b. 1862), eighth Governor (1910-11), is of Ulster Scot descent. David P. Thompson, ninth Governor of the state (1874-76), also of Ulster Scot descent, built the first railroad in Oregon, and was twice Mayor of Portland.
SOUTH DAKOTA. Corie Isaac Crawford, sixth Governor (1907-08) is of Ulster Scot descent.
CALIFORNIA. John McDougall (1818-66) was Lieutenant-Governor (1849) and afterwards Governor. Peter Hardeman Burnett (b. 1807) was first Governor of the state (1849-51). Both were of Scottish origin.
OREGON. James Shields, first territorial Governor (1848), was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, of Ulster Scot parentage. George Abernethy (1807-77), territorial Governor (1845-49), was born in New York city of Scottish parentage. “As a governor he was patriotic, efficient, and unselfish.”
REVOLUTION. Alexander MacDougall (1731-86), born in Islay, successively Colonel, Brigadier-General, and Major-General in the Revolutionary War, and later Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780 and 1784, was described by Washington as “a brave soldier and distinguished patriot.” Before the outbreak of the war he was a successful merchant, a leader of the “Sons of Liberty,” and was the first American imprisoned for his utterances in behalf of independence. Macdougal Street, New York city, commemorates his name. Robert Erskine (1735-1780), geographer and Chief of Engineers on the staff of Washington, was a son of Rev. Ralph Erskine of Dunfermline. Washington erected a stone over his grave at Ringwood, New Jersey. Henry Knox (1750-1806), General of Artillery and Secretary of War (1785-95). Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Clough Anderson (1750-1826) was grandson of a Scottish emigrant. General James Ewing (c. 1736-1806), of Ulster Scot descent, served in Braddock’s campaign and also during the Revolution. General William Wirt Henry was descended from an Ulster Scot who came between 1718 and 1722 to Massachusetts. General Richard Montgomery (1736-75), a descendant of the Montgomeries of Ayrshire, was killed while leading the attack on Quebec; and Major John Macpherson (1754-75), of Scots parentage, killed beside Montgomery, was the first soldier of prominence from Pennsylvania to be killed in the war. Bancroft calls him “the pure-minded, youthful enthusiast for liberty.” Colonel Allan McLane (1746-1829), of Scottish origin, repeatedly referred to in Dr. Weir Mitchell’s “Hugh Wynne,” was one of the “Rough Riders” who patrolled the country around Philadelphia to prevent provisions reaching the British troops in the city. His flight and escape from the British in one of these raids was the subject of a painting
MEXICAN WAR. Winfield Scott (1786-1866), grandson of a Scot who fought at Culloden, was born in Virginia, and entered the army in 1808. He served with great ability in the War of 1812, later became Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army in 1841. During the war with Mexico he held chief command of the Army, and became Lieutenant-General in 1847. John Munroe (c. 1796-1861), born in Ross-shire, entered the United States Army, saw service against the Florida Indians, became Chief of Artillery under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, and was subsequently Military and Civil Governor of New Mexico (1849-50). James Bowie (1795-1836), of Scottish descent and of “Bowie-knife” celebrity, took part in the Texan Revolution and was killed at the Alamo in 1836. Bowie county and the town of Bowie in Montague county, Texas, perpetuate his name. The Bowies were a prominent family in Maryland, occupying high positions in politics, jurisprudence, and society.
CIVIL WAR. General David Bell Birney (1825-64), son of James Gillespie Birney, served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac. General Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-81), later Governor of Rhode Island (1867-69), and United States Senator (1875-81), was grandson of a Scot who emigrated to South Carolina at end of the eighteenth century. Samuel Wylie Crawford (1829-92), of Scottish ancestry, was brevetted Major-General of Volunteers for conspicuous gallantry, and wrote “Genesis of the Civil War” (1887). Major-General Thomas Ewing (1829-96), was descendant of Thomas Ewing who emigrated to New Jersey in 1715. James Lorraine Geddes (1829-87), born in Edinburgh, brevetted Brigadier-General for his services, was also a poet, and wrote “The Soldier’s Battle Prayer,” “The Stars and Stripes,” etc. John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army and later Governor of Georgia, was descendant of John George Gordon and his wife
John Paul Jones (1747-92), perhaps the most famous Scottish name in the annals of the American Navy, was the son of a Scottish gardener, and was born at Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire. The details of his naval career are so well known that there is little use of repeating them here. James Craig (1735-1800), a Scot, Was appointed by Congress a Commissioner of naval stores in 1776. He was owner of a number of armed privateering vessels, took several prizes, and also aided in fitting out several other vessels as privateers. The Nicholson family, of Scottish parentage, was famous in the naval annals of the United States for three generations, from the Revolution to the Civil War. Alexander Murray (1755-1821), grandson of a Scot, took an active part in the naval battles of the Revolution and commanded a squadron against the Barbary pirates in 1820. John Rodgers (1771-1838), of Scottish parentage, had a distinguished part in the war against Tripoli, the government of which he compelled to sign a treaty abolishing slavery of Christians and the levying of tribute on European powers. In the war of 1812 he fired the first gun, June 23, 1812, at the British frigate “Belvidere.” He was afterwards offered, but declined, the office of Secretary of the Navy. George Campbell Read (c. 1788-1862), Admiral, of Ulster Scot descent, took part in the fight between the “Constitution” and “Guerriere” in 1812. Isaac McKeever (1794-1856), Commodore and Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, was of Scottish parentage. John Berrien Montgomery (1794-1873), descended from William Montgomery of Bridgend, Ayrshire (1701), served in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and while too old for active service in the Civil War, was in charge of Boston Navy Yard, then one of the most important supply stations of the navy. Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson (1822-1892), of Scottish descent, took part in Civil War, and retired after forty-three years’ continuous service. John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), Executive Officer of the Confederate Cruiser “Alabama”
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), born in Paisley, the first naturalist to study American birds in their native haunts, and author of “American Ornithology” (1803-13), was also distinguished as a poet. David Hosack (1769-1835), one of the most distinguished surgeons and scientists of his day, fourth President of the New York Historical Society, was son of a native of Morayshire. Samuel Guthrie (1782-1848), physician and chemist, was descendant of John Guthrie, who came to America in 1661. He was one of the pioneers who introduced vaccination, produced the first successful percussion powder (after many experiments), invented the “punch lock” which superseded the flint-lock musket, and, in 1831, discovered the anaesthetic chloroform. Hugh Williamson (1735-1819), statesman and scientist, born in Pennsylvania and educated in Edinburgh. He studied theology and was licensed but never preached, was Professor of Mathematics in the College of Philadelphia (1760-63), studied medicine in Edinburgh and Utrecht, practised successfully, served as surgeon in the Revolutionary War, delegate to the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States (1787), and was afterwards Member of the first Congress. John McLean (1771-1814), born in Glasgow, became Professor of Chemistry in Princeton (1775) and later Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. His son, John, became President of Princeton. Dr. William Watson (d. 1828), a Scot, was physician and friend of Chancellor Livingston, and one of the early promoters of scientific agriculture in America. He was founder of the Farmers’ Club of Dutchess and Columbia Counties, the pioneer
William Maclure (1763-1840), the “Father of American Geology,” was born in Ayr, Scotland, and after acquiring a fortune in London, he came in 1796 to the United States. Having studied geology in Europe he was attracted by the imposing scale of the geological structure of his adopted country, and in the course of some years made many journeys across the eastern states. He recorded his geological observations on a map, and in 1809 communicated his researches to the American Philosophical Society. In 1817, having extended his knowledge during the intervening eight years he presented his map to the Society, and it was then published. This was the first geological survey of the United States, and it was carried out unsustained by government aid or patronage. It was also chiefly through Maclure’s aid that the new Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia was built and endowed. Dr. Archibald Bruce (1777-1818), the first scientific mineralogist in America, and founder of the American Mineralogical Magazine (1810), was born in New York city, son of Dr. William Bruce, head of the medical department of the British Armies. Henry Darwin Rogers (1808-66), born in Philadelphia of Ulster Scot parentage, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, State Geologist of Pennsylvania, published important works on the geology of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He removed to Edinburgh in 1855 and three years later became Professor of Natural History in the University of Glasgow. His elder brother, William Barton Rogers (1804-1882), was also a distinguished physicist and geologist. David Dale Owen (1807-60), born in Lanarkshire, was brought to the United States by his father in 1823. In 1848 he took charge of the Geological Survey of Wisconsin and Iowa, and that of Minnesota in 1852. His brother, Richard Owen (1810-90), also born in Lanarkshire, had a distinguished career in this country as a geologist. J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903), also of Scottish descent, was another distinguished geologist who by his researches and surveys in Pennsylvania, vastly aided in the economic development of that state. Persifor Frazer (1844-1909), son of John Fries Frazer and great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Persifor Frazer of Revolutionary times, was author of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (5 vols.) William John McGee (1853-1912), geologist and anthropologist, claimed descent from the MacGregors. He was Geologist of the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to 1893, Ethnologist in Charge of the Bureau of Ethnology
Asa Gray (1810-88), the greatest of American botanists, was a descendant of one of the Ulster Scot settlers of 1718. Dr. Alexander Garden (1728-92), famous as a physician and botanist, was Professor of Botany in King’s College (now Columbia University). His son was a distinguished Revolutionary officer. Thomas Huston Macbride (b. 1848), President Emeritus of the State University of Iowa, who has written much of value on botany, is of Scottish ancestry. Beverly Thomas Galloway (b. 1863), descended from John Galloway, an emigrant from Scotland in 1680, Chief of the Division of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1913-14, is the author of several works on plant diseases. David Trembly Macdougal (b. 1865), Director of the Botanical Research Department of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1905, is the grandson of a Scottish immigrant. His studies relate especially to plant physiology, heredity, and organic evolution.
Stephen Alexander (1806-83), son of a native of Scotland, wrote much on astronomy, and was chief of the expedition to the coast of Labrador to observe the solar eclipse in August, 1869. James Ferguson (1797-1867), an Engineer employed on the construction of the Erie Canal, was born in Perthshire. He was later Assistant Astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, and discovered three asteroids, for which he received medals from the French Academy of Sciences. Ormsby McKnight Mitchel (1810-62), who was Director of the Cincinnati Observatory (1845) and later of the Dudley Observatory (1859), inventor of the chronograph and other astronomical apparatus, and became a General in the Civil War, was probably also of Scottish origin. Maria Mitchell (1818-89), daughter of William Mitchell
The most interesting Scot in connection with horticulture in the United States is Grant Thorburn (1773-1861), who was born in Dalkeith and left his native country for political reasons in 1794. After trying a number of occupations he finally established himself as a seed merchant in New York, and the business is still carried on under his name. Under the pen name of “Lawrie Todd” he contributed to the Knickerbocker Magazine and other New York periodicals, and supplied John Galt, the novelist, with much of the information incorporated in his “Lawrie Todd; or, Settlers in the New World.” Thorburn also published two volumes of reminiscences, “Forty Years’ Residence in America,” and “Fifty Years’ Reminiscences of New York.” William Adair, born near Glasgow in 1815, developed a profitable business as gardener and horticulturist in Michigan, and served as State Senator from 1861 to 1865, 1869-70. Peter Henderson (1822-90), born at Pathhead near Edinburgh, founded the firm of Peter Henderson and Co., horticulturists and seedsmen, one of the largest firms of its kind in existence. William Saunders (1822-1900), born in St. Andrews, planted and laid out several large estates, beautified Fairmount and Hunting Parks in Philadelphia, and the park and garden system of Washington, D.C., the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, etc. William Macmillan, born in Nairnshire, laid out the public parks of Buffalo, and William R. Smith, a native of Haddingtonshire, was for many years Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Washington. Robert Buist (1805-80), born in Edinburgh, was also one of the greatest horticulturists in the United States.
A prominent physician of early colonial times was Dr. Gustavus Brown (1689-1765), born in Dalkeith, and died in Maryland. Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown (1747-1804), born in Maryland and educated at Edinburgh University, his son, also made a reputation for himself as a physician of ability. Dr. Gustavus Brown (1744-1801), grandson of the first named, was summoned to attend President Washington in his last illness. Dr. John Lining (1708-1760), born in Scotland, settled in Charleston, S.C., in 1730, gained a large practice through his skill as a physician, and a distinguished reputation in Europe as a scientist from his experiments in electricity, etc. His meteorological observations were probably the first ever published. In 1751 he issued his “History of the Yellow Fever,” “which was the first that had been given to the public from the American continent.” Dr. Lionel Chalmers (1715-1777), born in Argyllshire, practised in South Carolina for more than forty years, and was the first to treat of the soil, climate, weather, and diseases of that state. He “left behind him the name of a skilful, humane physician.” Dr. James Craik (1731-1814), physician-general of the United States Army, was born at Arbigland, near Dumfries, and for nearly forty years was the intimate friend of Washington, and his physician in his last illness. One of the earliest introducers of vaccination into America and an original investigator into the cause of disease was Dr. John Crawford (1746-1813), of Ulster Scots birth. As early as 1790 he had conceived what is now known as the germ theory of disease. Dr. Adam Stephen, born in Scotland, died at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1791, took part in the French and Indian wars and was an active participant in the Revolutionary War on the side of the colonists. The town of Martinsburg in Berkeley County was laid out by him. Dr. George Buchanan (1763-1808), founder of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, was a grandson of George Buchanan, the Scot who laid out Baltimore town in 1730. Dr. John Spence (1766-1829), born in Scotland, educated at Edinburgh University, settled in Virginia in 1791, and obtained a high reputation as a judicious and successful practitioner. The “father of ovariotomy,” Dr. Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), was born in Virginia of Scots ancestry and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. James Brown McCaw (1772-1846), one of the leading surgeons in Virginia for over thirty years, studied medicine in Edinburgh. He was one of the first, if not the first, to tie the external carotid artery, an operation he performed in 1807. He came of a race of doctors, being the great-grandson of James McCaw, a surgeon who emigrated from Wigtownshire in 1771. George McClellan (1796-1847) the eminent surgeon and founder of the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, was of Scottish descent. His son, John Hill Brinton
The Scots have largely contributed to raise the standard of education and culture in the United States. They furnished most of the principal schoolmasters in the Revolutionary Colonies south of New York, and many of the Revolutionary leaders were trained by them. While Harvard still continued under the charge of a president and tutors and had but one “professor,” William and Mary College had had for many years a full faculty of professors, graduates of the Scottish and English universities. The Scots established the “Log College” at Nashaminy, Pennsylvania, Jefferson College, Mercer College, Wabash College, and Dickinson College; and in many places, before the cabins disappeared from the roadside and the stumps from the fields, a college was founded. The “Log College” was the seed from which Princeton College sprang. The University for North Carolina, founded and nurtured by Scots in 1793, and the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University are indebted to the same source for their present position. William Gordon and Thomas Gordon, who founded a free school in the county of Middlesex, Virginia, in the
James Blair (1656-1743), born in Edinburgh, was the chief founder and first President of William and Mary College, and Mungo Inglis was the first Grammar Master there till 1712. Francis Alison (1705-99), an Ulster Scot educated in Glasgow, was Vice-Provost of the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania. David Rhind, tutor of John Rutledge, “an excellent classical scholar, and one of the most successful of the early instructors of youth in Carolina,” was of Scottish birth. The tutor of Thomas Jefferson was also a Scot. Samuel Finley (1715-66), born in Armagh of Scots ancestry, S.T.D. of Glasgow University, 1763, was President of the College of New Jersey, and one of the ancestors of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the Morse system of telegraphy. In educational work in the eighteenth century no name stands higher than that of William Smith (1727-1803), born in Aberdeen, first Provost of the College of Philadelphia. He was the introducer of the system of class records now used in all American universities. Isabella Graham (1742-1814), born in Lanarkshire, ranked as one of the most successful teachers in New York at the end of the eighteenth century. James Dunlap (1744-1818), of Scottish descent, was President of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. William Graham (1745-99), was first President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). Robert Patterson (1743-1824), a Scot of Ulster, was Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1810-13), and Director of the United States Mint in Philadelphia (1805-24). His son, Robert M. Patterson, succeeded him as Vice-Provost in 1828. Peter Wilson (1746-1825), born at Ordiquhill, Aberdeenshire, published several important text-books on Latin and Greek, was Member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1777, and in 1783 was appointed to revise and codify the laws of the state of New York. Thomas Craighead (1750-1825), first President of Davidson Academy (1785-1809), afterwards the University of Nashville, was great-grandson of Rev. Robert Craighead who went from Scotland to Donoghmore in Ireland. Joseph McKeen (1757-1807),
As librarians may legitimately be included under the head of educators, the following individuals may be mentioned: John Forbes (1771-1824), born in Scotland, was Librarian of the New York Society Library. His son, Philip Jones Forbes (1807-77), was Librarian of the same institution from 1828 to 1855, and his son, John born in 1846, afterwards became Librarian there. Morris Robeson Hamilton (b. 1820), State Librarian of New Jersey, was descendant of John Hamilton, acting Governor of New Jersey (d. 1746). John Cochrane Wilson (1828-1905), Librarian of the Law Library of the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Miss Catherine Wolf Bruce established a Free Circulating Library in Forty-second Street in memory of her father, George Bruce the type-founder, in 1888. It is now a branch of the New York Public Library.
John Lawson (c. 1658-1711), Surveyor-General of North Carolina, a native of Aberdeen, published “A New Voyage to Carolina,” in 1709, reprinted 1714, 1718, 1737, 1860, and twice translated into German (1712, 1722). Lawson was cruelly murdered by the Tuscaroras. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816), born near Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was author of a political satire, “Modern Chivalry,” a work now extremely rare. David Ramsay (1749-1815), physician and patriot, of Ulster Scot descent, Delegate to the Continental Congress, was author of historical works relating to the Revolution and to South Carolina. Gilbert Imlay, born about 1755 in New Jersey of Scottish parents, was the first Kentucky novelist, author of “The History of an Expatriated Family” (1793), etc. Robert Dinsmoor (1757-1836), poet, was brother of Governor Dinsmoor of New Hampshire. Hugh McCall (1767-1824), author of the first “History of Georgia,” (published in 2 v., 1811-16), was of Scottish descent. His ancestor emigrated from Dumbartonshire to Ulster along with the ancestor of J.C. Calhoun. The ancestors of both remained two generations in Ulster before coming to America. The greatest name in American literature is that of the son of the Orcadian farmer, Washington Irving (1783-1859). He was the first who won international honors for American literature. John Mellish or Melish (1771-1822), born in Perthshire, died in Philadelphia, traveled extensively in the United States and published several volumes of his travels and also published many topographical and military maps. James Murdock (1776-1856), of Ulster Scot descent, translated and edited Mosheim’s “Institutes of Ecclesiastical History,” Milman’s “History of Christianity,” etc. Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786-1871), author and jurist, was son of the author of “Modern Chivalry.” Thomas F. Gordon (1789-1860), lawyer and historian of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etc., was of Scottish ancestry. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870), lawyer, newspaper editor, author of “Georgia Scenes” (1840), etc., was son of the inventor. Lydia (Huntley) Sigourney (1791-1865), poet and miscellaneous writer, was partly of Scots descent. Hew Ainslie (1792-1878), author of a “Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns,” etc., was born in Ayrshire. David Paul Brown (1795-1872), born in Philadelphia of Scottish parents, was author of “The Forum; or Forty Years of Practice at the Philadelphia Bar.” James Lawson (1799-1880), newspaper editor and dramatist, was born in Glasgow and died in Yonkers. Angus Umphraville of Missouri, the unknown author of “Missourian Lays” (St. Louis, 1821), was most probably a Scot. His verses are described as “simply wonderful.” Maria J. McIntosh (1803-78), authoress, was descended from the McIntoshes of Georgia. George Washington Bethune (1805-62) of New York, a
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
Charles Pettigrew (1743-1807), Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was of Scottish descent. James Kemp (1764-1827), second Bishop of Maryland, was born at Keithhall in Aberdeenshire. Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1799-1873), Bishop of Ohio (1832-73), author of “Evidences of Christianity,” 1832, was also of Scottish origin, from the MacIlvaines of Ayrshire. William Edward McLaren (1831-1905), third Bishop of Chicago, was grandson of a Scot. The first missionary Bishop of Duluth, James Dow Morrison (b. 1844), was son of Rev. John Morrison and his wife who emigrated from Glasgow in 1837. Abram Newkirk Littlejohn (1824-91), first Bishop of Long Island, was a descendant of Hugh Littlejohn of Perthshire. James Steptoe Johnston (b. 1843), second Bishop of western Texas, was of Scottish descent; and Hugh Miller Thompson (1830-1902), second Bishop of Mississippi, was an Ulster Scot, born in Londonderry.
Richard Gilmour (1824-91), second Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland (1872-91), born in Glasgow, Scotland, of Presbyterian parents, was noted for his zeal in behalf of Catholic education. Robert Seton (b. 1839), a descendent of the Setons of Winton, was created Archbishop of Heliopolis in 1903. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), of the same family, was founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of Charity (1809), of which she was the first Mother Superior.
John McLean (1759-1823), merchant and philanthropist, was founder of McLean Asylum for Insane at Somerville, Massachusetts. Robert Rantoul (1778-1848), of Scottish parentage, worked hard to ameliorate the criminal legislation of the country, and took part in establishing a charity school at Beverly, Massachusetts, which was said to be the first Sunday School in America. Mrs. Graham, a Scotswoman, celebrated in New York city for her benevolence and charity, founded a Sunday School in New York for young women in 1792. The movement however languished for some years until her daughter, Mrs. Bethune, also born in Scotland, organized the Female Sabbath School Union of New York in 1816. By her work in this connection Mrs. Bethune earned her title of “Mother of Sabbath Schools in America.” Fanny Wright (1795-1852), Madame Frances D’Arusmont, born in Dundee, Scotland, lectured extensively in the United States on social, religious, and political questions, and was the author of “Views on Society and Manners in America,” etc. Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), born in Glasgow, social reformer, spiritualist, author, and Member of Congress from Indiana (1843-47), was a strong advocate of negro emancipation. James Miller McKim (1810-1874), of Ulster Scot descent, was one of the organizers of the National Anti-Slavery Society (1835), later publishing agent of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and in 1865 one of the founders of the New York “Nation.” Albert Brisbane (1809-90), of Scottish and English descent, was the “Father of American Fourierism.” Albert
John Mercer (1704-68), author of “An exact abridgment of all the public Acts of Assembly,” Williamsburg, 1737, was a descendant of the Mercers of Aldie. Robert Auchmuty (born in Scotland, died in Boston, 1750), and his sons were distinguished lawyers of Colonial times. Hugh Maxwell (1787-1873), born in Paisley, was Assistant Judge Advocate General (1814) and District Attorney of New York (1819-29). Edward Duffield Ingraham (1793-1854), of Scottish descent, was at the head of the legal profession of his time in Philadelphia. He was also an eminent bibliophile, possessing a library of thirty thousand volumes. Robert Rantoul (1805-52), of Scots ancestry, was member of the first Commission to Revise the Laws of Massachusetts, Member of the first Massachusetts Board of Education, “an honor intended to be conferred only on such as were well qualified by their literary acquisitions to discharge its responsible duties.” He was also a prominent agitator against the fugitive slave law, and organizer and corporator of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first transcontinental line projected. John Jay McGilvra (1827-1903), of Scots parentage, took part in many prominent enterprises for the public benefit in Washington State, and forced the Northern Pacific Railroad to restore five million acres to public domain. Lawrence Maxwell, born in Glasgow in 1853, was Solicitor-General of the United States (1893-95), and also held many other important positions. David Robert Barclay, author of the well known “Barclay’s Digest” of the decisions of the Supreme Court (St. Louis, 1868) was of Scots descent. William Birch Rankine (1858-1905) of Scots parentage, took up the work of developing Niagara power and founded the Niagara Falls Power Company (1886). Thomas M. Logan (b. 1840), lawyer, soldier, and railroad officer was a descendant of Logan of Restalrig. David Clarence Gibboney (b. 1869), Special Counsel for the Pure Food Commission in 1906, grandson of a Scot, has also made a reputation for prosecution of gamblers, dive-keepers, illicit liquor dealers, etc., in Philadelphia.
John Smibert (c. 1684-1751), born in Edinburgh, came to America in 1728 and settled in Boston, where he met success as a portrait painter. He was the first painter of merit in the colonies, and painted portraits of many of the eminent magistrates and divines of New England and New York between 1725 and 1751, the year of his death. His work had much influence on the American artist, John Singleton Copley. Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755-1828), born in Rhode Island of Scottish parents, was the foremost American portrait painter of his day. He painted several portraits of Washington, and also portraits of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Justice Story, Fisher Ames, John Jacob Astor and others. Cosmo Alexander, a skilled portrait painter, born in Scotland, was his teacher for a time. Charles Fraser (1782-1860), born in Charleston, South Carolina, of Scottish ancestry, first studied law and retired with a competency. He then took up art and achieved eminent success in miniature painting and as a painter of landscapes, pictures of genre, still life, etc. William Dunlap (1766-1839), artist and dramatist, founder and early Vice-President of the National Academy of Design, was of Ulster Scot descent. His family name was originally Dunlop. Robert Walter Weir (1803-89), of Scots parentage, is best known for his historical pictures, he being one of the first in America to take up this branch of the art. “The Embarkation of the Pilgrims” (1836-40) in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington is by him. Russell Smith, born in Glasgow in 1812, was a scientific draughtsman and landscape painter. Two of his finest landscapes, “Chocorua Peak” and “Cave at Chelton Hills” were exhibited in the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. His son, Xanthus (b. 1839), was a well-known marine and landscape painter and painted many of the naval engagements of the Civil War. James Hope, born near Abbotsford in 1818, settled in New York in 1853, distinguished as a landscapist, was chosen an Associate of the National Academy in 1865. Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822-95), born in Glasgow and educated in Edinburgh, was a most successful painter in oils as well as an engraver in stipple and mezzotint. His paintings of the “Death of Lincoln” and “Washington and his Generals,” obtained great popularity. As a portrait painter fine examples of his work are “Dr. McCosh” of Princeton, “Henry Clay,” etc. He also did a good deal of book illustrating. Thomas Lachlan Smith (d. 1884), also born in Glasgow, was noted for his Winter scenes. Two notable pictures of his, “The Deserted House” and “The Eve of St. Agnes,” were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition. Still another Glasgow artist, John Williamson (1826-85), born at the Tollcross in that famous city, became an Associate of the National Academy, and made the scenery of the Hudson and the Catskills his special study as shown by his “The Palisades,” “Sugar Loaf Mountain,” “Autumn in the Adirondacks,”
Alexander Lawson (1773-1846), born in Lanarkshire, died in Philadelphia, was famous as the engraver of the best plates in Alexander Wilsons’s Ornithology and the plates on conchology for Haldeman and Binney. His son, Oscar A. Lawson (1813-54), was chart engraver of the United States Coast Survey, 1840-51. Samuel Allerdice engraved a large number of plates of Dobson’s edition of Rees’s Cyclopaedia, 1794-1803. Hugh Anderson, a Scot, did good line and stipple work in Philadelphia in the first quarter of the nineteenth
John Crookshanks King (1806-82), born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, emigrated to America in 1829, and died in Boston, was celebrated for his busts of Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Louis Agassiz, the naturalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc. He also excelled as a maker of cameo portraits. Thomas Crawford (1814-57), one of the greatest if not the greatest sculptor of America, was of Scottish descent. His works include “Armed Liberty” (bronze doors), Beethoven, bust of John Quincy, Washington, “Orpheus,” etc. Frederick William MacMonnies, born in Brooklyn in 1863 of Scottish parents (his father was a native of Whithorn, Wigtownshire), is sculptor of the statue of Nathan Hale in City Hall Park, New York; “Victory” at West Point, etc. Robert Ingersoll Aitken, born in San Francisco of Scottish parents, is designer of the monuments to President McKinley at St. Helena, Berkeley, and in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He also designed the monument to the American Navy in Union Square, San Francisco. In 1906 he moved to New York and has executed busts of some of the most prominent Americans of the day. Notable of his ideal sculptures are “Bacchante” (1908), “The Flame” (1909), and “Fragment” (1909). John Massey Rhind, Member of the National Sculpture Society, one of the foremost sculptors of the present day, was born in Edinburgh in 1858. James Wilson, Alexander Macdonald (1824-1908), and Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866) are also of Scottish origin.
Alexander Milne Calder, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1846, began life as a gardener, studied with Alexander Brodie and John Rhind and in London and Paris, came to America in 1868, and is best known as having made the sculpture for the Philadelphia City Hall including the heroic statue of William Penn, which crowns the tower. His son, Alexander Stirling Calder, born in Philadelphia in 1870, is also a sculptor of note, and was acting chief of the Department of Sculpture, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1913-1915. Robert Tait MacKenzie, born in Ontario, Canada, in 1867, son of Rev. William Mackenzie, a graduate of Edinburgh, has created several groups of athletes in action of great force and beauty. Dr. Mackenzie is a physician and director of the Department of Physical Education in the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas MacBean, the architect of St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway, New York City, built in 1764-66, was a Scot who received his training under James Gibbs (an Aberdonian), architect of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. John Notman (1810-65), born in Edinburgh, designed and constructed some of the most important buildings in Philadelphia and also the State Capitol, Trenton. James Renwick (1818-95), born in New York city of Scottish ancestry, planned the distributing reservoir on Fifth Avenue, New York, where the New York Public Library now stands. He was one of the greatest architects in this country, and the beauty of his work—to cite only a few of his most
Duncan Phyfe, maker of exquisite furniture, who adapted and improved the Sheraton style, and considered by good judges to be the equal of Sheraton, Hipplewhite, and Adams, was a Scot who came to America about 1784. His father was John Fife of Inverness. Dyer, who devotes a chapter of his Early American Craftsmen to him, says “no other American made anything comparable to ... the exquisite furniture of Duncan Phyfe.” The name of Samuel McIntire (d. 1811) stands out pre-eminent as master of all the artists in wood of his time. An account of his work is given by Dyer with illustrations of his work. In 1812, Thomas Haig, a native of Scotland, a Queensware potter, started the Northern Liberties Pottery, and
Will C. Macfarlane (b. 1870), organist and composer, was born in England of Scottish origin. His compositions include songs, anthems, organ music, a Lenten Cantata, “The Message from the Cross.” His setting of Katherine Lee Bates’s patriotic hymn, “America, the Beautiful,” has had nation-wide usage. William Wallace Gilchrist (b. 1846), composer, was of Scottish descent; and Edward Alexander MacDowell (1861-1908), composer and Professor of Music in Columbia University, was of Ulster Scot origin.
Robert Campbell Maywood (1784-1856), actor and theatrical manager in Philadelphia, was born in Greenock, Scotland. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), the celebrated American actor, was the son of a native of Dumfriesshire; and Robert Bruce Mantell, who made his debut in Rochdale, England, was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, in 1854. James Edward Murdoch (1811-93), grandson of a Scottish immigrant, was Professor of Elocution at Cincinnati College of Music, and later a leading actor on the American stage. During the Civil War he devoted his energies to support of the Union and gave readings for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission. Benjamin Franklin Keith (1846-1914), theater proprietor, was of Scottish descent. Mary Garden, Singer and Director of Grand Opera, was born in Aberdeen in 1877. James H. Stoddart, the veteran actor, was also of Scottish origin.
As Scotland gave to the world the knowledge of the art of logarithms, the steam engine, the electric telegraph, the wireless telegraph, illuminating gas, the knowledge of chloroform, and many other important inventions, it was to be expected that the inventive faculty of her sons would not fail when transplanted to this country.
Hugh Orr (1717-98), born in Lochwinnoch, inventor of a machine for dressing flax, took a patriotic part in the war of the Revolution by casting guns and shot for the Continental Army, besides doing much to encourage rope-making and spinning. His son, Robert, invented an improved method of making scythes and was the first manufacturer of iron shovels in New England. William Longstreet (1759-1814), a New Jersey Scot,
Thomas Hutchins (1730-1789), engineer and geographer was of Scottish origin. He was author of some topographical works and also furnished the maps and plates of Smith’s Account of Bouquet’s expedition (Philadelphia, 1765). James Geddes (1763-1838), of Scottish birth or parentage, was surveyor of canal routes in New York State and was chief engineer on construction of the Erie Canal (1816), and chief engineer of the Champlain Canal (1818). “In all matters relating to the laying out, designing and construction of canals, he was looked upon as
Robert Gilmor (1748-1822), born in Paisley, was the founder of the East India trade in this country. He also assisted in founding the first bank in Baltimore (the Bank of Maryland), and the Maryland Historical Society. His son Robert (1774-1848) was also prominent in Baltimore business and was President of the Washington Monument Association which laid the foundation for the Washington monument in Baltimore in 1815 and completed it in 1829. Henry Eckford (1775-1832), shipbuilder, was a native of Irvine, Ayrshire. On the outbreak of the War of 1812 he built several ships for the American Government for use on the Great Lakes. In 1820 he was appointed Naval Constructor at the
In the financial and commercial field in this country the Scots have held a foremost place and stand unrivalled for integrity, energy, fidelity, and enterprise. Many jibes are made at the expense of the Canny Scot, but American business men have realized his value. In business and commercial life the success of the average Scot is remarkable and many of the guiding spirits among America’s successful business men are Scots or men of Scottish descent.
James Blair (b. 1807), brother of John Inslee Blair, was largely identified with the development of banks and railroads in Pennsylvania. George Smith (1808-99), born in Aberdeenshire, founded the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company (1839) and was later a prominent banker in Georgia. Alexander Mitchell (1817-87), financier, railroad builder, and one of the Commissioners of Public Debt of Milwaukee, was born near Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Brown Brothers, bankers in New York, was founded by Alexander Brown (1764-1834) who was born in Ballymena of Ulster Scot parentage. George Bain (1836-91), merchant, banker, and director in many railroads, banks, and insurance companies, was born in Stirling, Scotland. Robert Craig Chambers (b. 1831), miner, financier, and State Senator of Utah, was of Scottish descent. John Aikman Stewart (b. 1822), President of the United States Trust Company and Assistant Treasurer of the United States, was born in New York city, son of a native of Stornoway, Hebrides. Alonzo Barton Hepburn (b. 1847), descendant of Patrick Hepburn who came from Scotland in 1736, President of the Chase National Bank, a distinguished New York banker, has written much on financial subjects. Thomas William Lamont (b. 1870), whose forefather came from Argyllshire, is a member of the firm of J.P. Morgan & Co., and prominent in international finance. Walter Edwin Frew, President of the Corn Exchange Bank, New York, and President of the New York Clearing House is of Scottish parentage. He was a pioneer of the branch banking system in New York. James Berwick Forgan, born in St. Andrews, in 1852, President of the First National Bank of Chicago, is a pillar of finance. Andrew Glassell (1827-1901), descendant of a Dumfriesshire emigrant of 1756, was a prominent lawyer and banker in Los Angeles. James Alexander Linen (b. 1840), President of the First National Bank of Scranton, was of Scottish parentage. George Rutledge Gibson (b. 1853), of Scottish descent, has written largely on questions of foreign finance. John Hall McClement (b. 1862), railroad and financial expert, is of Scottish parentage. Duncan MacInnes, born at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, has been Chief Accountant of the City of New York for many years, and is one of the best equipped men in municipal finance in America. Robert Graham Dun (1826-1900), mercantile credit expert, was grandson of Rev. James Dun, minister in Glasgow, who emigrated to Virginia, c. 1815.
Robert Burns Beath (1839-1914), President of the United Firemens’ Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and author of the “History of the Grand Army of the Republic” (1888), was of Scots parentage. William C. Alexander (1806-74), President of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, was second son of Dr. Archibald Alexander of Princeton. His son James Waddell Alexander (1839-1915), was also President of the same Company. John Augustine McCall (1849-1906), President of the New York Life Insurance Company, was of Ulster Scot descent.
Men of Scottish birth or Scottish descent have had a prominent place in the development of the railroads of the United States from their inception to the present day. It was a Scot, Peter Fleming, Surveyor of the upper part of New York city, who laid out the grades for the first railroad in the state. John Inslee (or Insley) Blair (1802-99), founder of the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company (1846), financier and founder of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, was a descendant of Samuel Blair who came from Scotland in 1720. Blairstown, New Jersey, is named in his honor. He gave half a million dollars to various Presbyterian institutions. Samuel Sloan (1817-1907), President of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad (1867-99), was born in Lisburn of Ulster Scot ancestry. John T. Grant (1813-87), railroad builder in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, was of Scottish origin; and so also was Thomas Alexander Scott (1824-81), Vice-President and President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Assistant Secretary of War (1861-62), and President of the Texas Pacific Railroad. James McCrea (b. 1836), descended from James McCrea, an Ulster Scot who came to America in 1776, was one of the ablest Presidents of the Pennsylvania Railroad. John Edgar Thompson, third President, Frank Thompson, sixth Vice-President of the Pennsylvania system, were also of Scottish descent. Alexander Johnson Cassatt, seventh President, was Scottish on his mother’s side. Another prominent Scot connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad was Robert Pitcairn, born at Johnstone, near Paisley, in 1836. Angus Archibald McLeod (b. 1847), re-organizer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was also a Scot; and George Devereux Mackay (b. 1854), banker and railroad builders, was descended from John Mackay who came from Caithness in 1760. John Allan Muir (1852-1904), railroad promoter of California, was of Scottish parentage.
The first newspaper printed in North America, The Boston News-Letter for April 24, 1704, was published by a Scot, John Campbell (1653-1728), bookseller and postmaster of Boston. John Mein and John Fleming, the founders and publishers of The Boston Chronicle (1767) were both born in Scotland. The paper was printed “on a new and handsome type, a broad faced long primer, from an Edinburgh foundry, and
Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), born of Scottish parentage. He wielded a powerful influence for good in both the national and state politics of Virginia, and his funeral was attended by nearly all the distinguished men of the times, including the President. Ritchie County, West Virginia, was named in his honor. Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876), political writer, negotiator of peace conference at Hampton Roads in 1864, and editor of the Washington Globe, was a descendant of Commissary Blair of Virginia. James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872), born near Keith, Banffshire, pioneer of modern American journalism and founder of the New York Herald, a newspaper which has long wielded a great influence on political affairs. Horace Greeley (1811-72), founder of the New York Tribune, unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency in 1872, anti-slavery leader, and author of “The American Conflict” (1864-66), was of Ulster Scot descent. Of the same origin was Joseph Medill (1823-99), proprietor of the Chicago Tribune (1874); and Robert Bonner (1824-99), founder of the New York Ledger (1851), was born in Londonderry of Ulster Scot origin. James Thompson Callender (d. 1806), a political exile from Scotland, a controversial writer of great power, a severe critic of the administration of John Adams, founded the Richmond Recorder, predecessor of the Richmond Enquirer. John Swinton (1829-1901), born in Haddingtonshire, was editorial writer for the New York Times
Thomas Dobson, publisher of the first American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1791), was a Scot who gave a great impulse to printing in the United States. Robert Carter (1807-89), publisher and founder of the house of Robert Carter and Brothers, so long and honorably known in New York city, was born in Earlston, Berwickshire. Henry Ivison (1808-84), born in Glasgow, became a prominent publisher in New York. His son, David Brinkerhoff Ivison, born in 1835, was also a prominent publisher and founder of the American Book Company. John Wilson (1802-68), born in Glasgow, was founder of the famous printing firm of John Wilson and Son of Cambridge, Massachusetts, now Harvard University Press. George Munro (1825-96), publisher of the Seaside Library, Fireside Companion,
John Baine, born in St. Andrews, in partnership with his grandson, established the first type-foundry in Philadelphia in 1787. Their firm cast the types for a portion of the American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, reprinted in Philadelphia in 1791. Archibald Binny, (1763-1838), born in Portobello, near Edinburgh, and James Ronaldson (d. 1841), also born in Scotland, succeeded to and carried on the business established by Baine. In 1797 they cast the first $ sign used in this country. The quality and art of their product was in no wise inferior to the European and the sale of foreign made types ceased shortly after they established their business. Their foundry kept pace with the growth of the country and in the seventies of last century became the best and most extensive letter-foundry in the world. Archibald Binny loaned the United States Government the sum of 50,000 dollars for use in the war of 1812-14. Ronaldson was first president of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (1824-41), an institution in which he took a great interest, and in 1831 presented to Philadelphia the beautiful cemetery bearing his name. He was described as “an upright, frugal and honest man, and a lover of his adopted country.” George Bruce (1781-1866), born in Edinburgh, along with his brother David introduced the art of stereotyping, the secret of which David secured in Edinburgh. In 1816 they purchased a foundry for type making and stereotyping, and George Bruce in his seventy-eighth year of age produced type which has rarely been excelled for beauty of design and neatness of finish. “He did much toward facilitating American printing and towards making it a fine art, inventing, with the assistance of his nephew, David Bruce, Jr., a successful type-casting machine which has come into general use.” Thomas Mackellar (1812-1899), printer and poet, also one of the leading type founders, was of Scottish parentage. William Vincent McKean, born in 1820 of Ulster Scot descent, was another distinguished type-founder and editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Public Ledger for many years. Another individual who may be included under this head is Adam Ramage who was born in Scotland and died at an advanced age in Philadelphia in 1850. He was distinguished as a manufacturer of printing presses in the beginning of last century, and patented the “Ramage” press in 1818.
Many names mentioned in other sections apply equally to New York city but for lack of space they are not here again referred to. David Jamison, one of the early Colonial lawyers in New York, was born in Scotland. In 1707 he defended Francis Makemie, the Presbyterian clergyman, when he was arrested for preaching in the city without a license, and in 1710 he became Chief Justice of New Jersey. James Graham (died c. 1700), Recorder of the city, was also a native of Scotland. John Watts (1749-1836), of Scots parentage, was the last Royal Recorder of the city, Speaker of the New York Assembly, Member of Congress, 1793-96, and founder of the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum. Archibald Gracie, born in Dumfries, emigrated to America about 1778. Through his business enterprise he largely developed the commercial importance of the port of New York. He was also founder of the first Savings Bank in America, founder of the Lying-in Hospital of the Cedar Street Presbyterian Church, President of the Chamber of Commerce for twenty years, etc. Cadwallader David Golden (1769-1834), grandson of Cadwallader Colden, was Mayor of the city from 1818 to 1821, and made an enviable record in that office. James Lenox (1800-80), merchant, philanthropist, bibliophile, and founder of the Lenox Library, now incorporated in the New York Public Library, was one of the most useful citizens New York ever possessed. His public benefactions were numerous, but only the largest were made public. Among these were the Lenox Library, formerly at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street; the Presbyterian Hospital, and liberal endowments to Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Alexander Turney Stewart (1803-76), merchant and philanthropist, born in Ireland of Scots parents, established the great dry goods business now owned by John Wanamaker. He was nominated as Secretary of the Treasury (1869) but was not confirmed. Hugh Maxwell (1787-1873), born in Paisley, was Assistant Junior Advocate General in 1814, District Attorney for the city from 1819 to 1829, and Collector of the Port (1849-52). Robert L. Stuart (1806-82) and his brother Alexander (1810-79), sugar refiners, both gave large sums, estimated at over two million dollars, to many charities, and the library, pictures, and mineral and shell collections of the former are preserved in a separate room of the New York Public Library. Hugh Auchincloss (1817-90) and John Auchincloss, his brother, sons of Hugh Auchincloss of Paisley, were prominent merchants in the city. Robert Lenox Kennedy (b. 1822), banker and public spirited citizen, grandson of a Scot, was President of the Trustees of the New York Public Library, an institution largely Scottish in its foundation and endowment. James Gibb, born in Scotland in 1829, a successful merchant, was President of Brooklyn Park Commission. James Cruikshank (b. 1831), of
That the Scots in America have not been solely devoted to business and the promotion of their own selfish welfare is evidenced by the remarkable growth of their numerous Societies based upon the extension of fellowship among Scots in the New World and for the collection and distribution of charitable funds among the poor and needy of their countrymen. The oldest of these Societies, the Scots’ Charitable Society of Boston, was founded January 6, 1657, with twenty-seven members. It was followed by the St. Andrew’s Club of Charleston, S.C. (the first to bear the name of St. Andrew), 1729; the St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia, December 7, 1749; the St. Andrew’s Society of Savannah, Ga., 1750; the St. Andrew’s
“It is the knowledge that Scotsmen have done their share in building up the great Republic that makes them proud of its progress and inspires them to add to its glories and advantages in every way. Scotsmen, as a nationality, are everywhere spoken of as good and loyal citizens, while Americans who can trace a family residence of a century in the country are proud if they can count among their ancestors some one who hailed from the land of Burns, and it is a knowledge of all this, in turn, that makes the American Scot of to-day proud of his country’s record and his citizenship and impels him to be as devoted to the new land as it was possible for him to have been to the old had he remained in it. In America, the old traditions, the old blue flag with its white cross, the old Doric, are not forgotten, but are nourished, and preserved, and honored, and spoken by Scotsmen on every side with the kindliest sentiments on the part of those to whom they are alien. Americans know and acknowledge that the traditions and flag and homely speech have long been conserved to the development of that civil and religious liberty on which the great confederation of sovereign republican States has been founded. In the United States, Sir Walter Scott has more readers and quite as enthusiastic admirers as in Scotland, and if Americans were asked which of the world’s poets came nearest to their hearts, the answer would undoubtedly be—Robert Burns.”
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Adair, Gov. John, 56.
Adair, John Johnstone, 30.
Adair, William, 71.
Adams, James, 108.
Addison, Alexander, 49.
Agnew, Dr. David Hayes, 74.
Ainslie, Hew, 81.
Aitken, Robert, 108.
Aitken, Robert Ingersoll, 91.
Alexander, Archibald, 78.
Alexander, Dr. Archibald, 106.
Alexander, Cosmo, 88.
Alexander, James, 29.
Alexander, James Waddell, 78, 106.
Alexander, John, 70.
Alexander, John White, 89.
Alexander, Joseph Addison, 78.
Alexander, Gov. Nathaniel, 55.
Alexander, Stephen, 70.
Alexander, Brig.-Gen. William, 62.
Alexander, William C., 106.
Allison, Francis, 76.
Allen, Adam, 70.
Allerdyce, Samuel, 90.
Anderson, Dr. Alexander, 90.
Anderson, Charles, 29.
Anderson, Hugh, 90.
Anderson, Gov. Hugh Johnston, 53.
Anderson, Lt.-Col. Richard C., 60.
Arbuckle, John, 102.
Armour, James, 103.
Armours of Chicago, 103.
Armstrong, Brig.-Gen. John. 61.
Arthur, Pres. Chester Alan, 40.
Astor, John Jacob, 28.
Auchincloss, Hugh, Jr., 114.
Auchincloss, Hugh, Sr., 114.
Auchincloss, John, 114.
Auchmuty, Robert, 87.
Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, 84.
Bain, George, 105.
Baine, John, 111.
Baird, George W., 97.
Baird, Matthew, 102.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 68.
Bancroft, George, 4.
Barbour, Edwin Hinckley, 70.
Barbour, Geo. Harrison, 103.
Barbour, Gov. James, 54.
Barbour, William, 104.
Barclay, Alexander, 30.
Barclay, David, 16.
Barclay, David Robert, 87.
Barclay, Rev. Henry, 84.
Barclay, John, 16, 84, 87.
Barclay, John Charles, 97.
Barclay, Gov. Robert, 16, 32.
Barclay, Col. Thomas, 99.
Baron, Alexander, 21.
Barr, William, 102.
Bartram, Gen. George, 28.
Baxter, George, 19.
Beall, Col. Ninian, 21.
Bean, Dr. James, 31.
Bean, John, 26.
Bean, Russell, 31.
Bean, Capt. William, 31.
Beath, Robert Burns, 106.
Beatty, John Wesley, 89.
Beck, Senator, James Burnie, 46.
Bell, Alexander Graham, 97.
Bell, Alex. Melville, 79.
Bell, Gov. Charles Henry, 53.
Bell, Gov. Charles James, 53.
Bell, John, 25.
Bell, John, 42.
Bell, Gov. John, 53.
Bell, Luther V., 25.
Bell, Gov. Peter Hansborough, 58.
Bell, Gov. Samuel, 49, 53.
Bell, Samuel Dana, 49.
Bell, Thomas Sloan, 49.
Bennett, James Gordon, 110.
Berkeley, Sir William, 34.
Bethune, Divie, 82.
Bethune, Mrs. Divie, 86.
Bethune, Rev. Geo. W., 82.
Beveridge, Gov. John Lourie, 57.
Bigger, Gov. Samuel, 57.
Binny, Archibald, 111, 112.
Birney, Gen. David Bell, 62.
Birney, James Gillespie, 62.
Black, Gavin, 17.
Blackburn, Gideon, 19.
Blackford, Eugene G., 114.
Blaine, James Gillespie, 43.
Blair, Dr. Archibald, 34.
Blair, Asso. Justice, 48.
Blair, Gov. Austin, 57.
Blair, Senator Francis Montgomery, 45.
Blair, Francis Preston, 110.
Blair, James, 76.
Blair, James, 96.
Blair, James, 105.
Blair, Commissary James, 29, 33, 34.
Blair, Gov. John, 34.
Blair, John Inslee, 105, 106.
Blair, Montgomery, 44.
Blair, Samuel, 106.
Bonner, Robert, 110.
Bouquet, Col. Henry, 20.
Bowe, (Bowie), John, 22.
Bowie, Gov. Robert, 54.
Bowie, James, 62.
Bowyer, Col. John, 20.
Bowyer, Col. William, 20.
Boyd, Adam, 109.
Boyd, David French, 79.
Boyd, Gov. James E., 58.
Boyd, John, 79.
Boyd, Thos. Duckett, 79.
Boyd, Rev. William, 14.
Brady, Gov. John Henry, 59.
Breathitt, Gov. John, 57.
Brechin, James, 29.
Breckenridge, Henry, 26.
Brackenridge, Henry Marie, 81.
Brackenridge, Hugh H., 81.
Breckenridge, John, 26.
Breckenridge, V.-Pres. John Cabell, 26, 41.
Breckenridge, Joseph Cabell, 26.
Breckenridge, Robert, 26.
Breckenridge, Robert Jefferson, 26.
Breckenridge, Wm. Campbell Preston, 26.
Breckinridge, Alexander, 19, 26.
Breghin, James, 29.
Brevard, Dr. Ephraim, 36.
Brice, Senator Calvin Stewart, 46.
Brisbane, Albert, 86.
Brisbane, Robert, 21.
Brown, Abel, 54.
Brown, Alexander, 105.
Brown, Mayor Andrew, 108.
Brown, Angus, 56.
Brown, Gov. Gratz, 58.
Brown, Brothers, 105.
Brown, David Paul, 81.
Brown, Gov. Frank, 54.
Brown, Dr. Gustavus, 73.
Brown, Dr. Gustavus (III), 73.
Brown, Dr. Gustavus R., 73.
Brown, Senator James, 45.
Brown, John, 77.
Brown, Gov. Neil S., 56.
Brownlee, Katherine M., 83.
Bruce, Alex. Campbell, 92.
Bruce, David, 112.
Bruce, David, Jr., 112.
Bruce, George (1635), 83.
Bruce, Dr. Archibald, 69.
Bruce, Catherine Wolf, 80.
Bruce, George, 80, 112.
Bruce, Wallace, 83.
Bruce, Dr. William, 69.
Bryce, Thomas, 17.
Bryson, Rear Admiral Andrew, 65.
Buchanan, Alexander, 22.
Buchanan, George, 31, 73.
Buchanan, Dr. George, 73.
Buchanan, Pres. James, 40, 47.
Buchanan, John, 17.
Buchanan, Judge John, 50.
Buchanan, John, 109.
Buchanan, Thomas, 50.
Buckham, Matthew Henry, 79.
Buist, Rev. George, 85.
Buist, Robert, 72.
Bulloch, Archibald, 27.
Bulloch, Irvine S., 27.
Bulloch, James, 27, 40.
Bulloch, James Dunwoody, 27.
Bulloch, William B., 27.
Burd, Col. James, 30.
Burden, Henry, 95, 103.
Burden, James Abercrombie, 103.
Burnet, David G., 47.
Burnet, Bishop Gilbert, 32.
Burnet, Major Ichabod, 47.
Burnet, Jacob, 47.
Burnet, Senator Jacob, 45.
Burnett, John, 22.
Burnet, Geo. William, 32.
Burnet, Dr. William, 45, 47.
Burnet, Dr. Wm. (of N.J.), 47.
Burnett, Gov. Peter H., 59.
Burns, Frank, 92.
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., 53, 62.
Burt, Charles, 90.
Calder, Alex Milne, 91.
Calder, Alex Stirling, 91.
Caldwell, David, 36.
Caldwell, Rev. James, 84.
Caldwell, Major John, 21.
Caldwell, John E., 84.
Caldwell, Joseph, 77.
Caldwell, Gov. Tod R., 55.
Calhoun, V.-Pres. John Caldwell, 41, 81.
Calhoun, Senator John Ewing, 45.
Calhoun, Patrick, 21.
Callender, James Thompson, 110.
Callender, Walter, 103.
Calvin, Samuel, 70.
Cameron, Alexander, 103.
Cameron, Duncan, 22.
Cameron, Families, 103.
Cameron, Gilbert, 92.
Cameron, Col. James, 45.
Cameron, Senator James Donald, 42, 45.
Cameron, John, 22.
Cameron, Rev. John, 54.
Cameron, Senator Simon, 42, 45.
Cameron, Gov. William Ewan, 54.
Campbell, Rev. Alexander, 85.
Campbell, Senator Alexander, 45.
Campbell, Andrew, 96.
Campbell, Rev. Archibald, 74.
Campbell, Arthur, 20.
Campbell, Gov. David, 54.
Campbell, Duncan, 17.
Campbell, Duncan H., 96.
Campbell, Geo. Washington, 42.
Campbell, Hugh, 16.
Campbell, Hugh, 19.
Campbell, Hugh, 76.
Campbell, James, 44.
Campbell, Gov. James E., 57.
Campbell, James Hepburn, 51.
Campbell, John, 108.
Campbell, John Archibald, 49.
Campbell, John, Earl of London, 34.
Campbell, Capt. Lauchlin, 22.
Campbell, Lewis David, 51.
Campbell, Lord Neil, 32.
Campbell, Robert, 91.
Campbell, Sanders, 22.
Campbell. Gov. Thos. Mitchell, 58.
Campbell, William, 20.
Campbell, Lord William, 35.
Campbell, Gov. Wm. Bowen, 56.
Campbell, Wm. Harrison, 97.
Campbell, William Wallace, 49.
Campbell, Wm. Wallace, 71.
Cardross, Henry, Lord, 17.
Carnegie, Andrew, 102.
Carnochan, Dr. John Murray, 74.
Carrack, Samuel, 19.
Carter, Robert, 111.
Carwood, John, 21.
Cassatt, Alex. Johnson, 106.
Cauldwell, William, 110.
Chalmers, Hugh, 104.
Chalmers, Dr. Lionel, 73.
Chalmers, Thomas, 104.
Chambers, John, 27.
Chambers, Gov. John, 58.
Chambers, Robert, 27.
Chambers, Robert Craig, 105.
Chapman, James, 22.
Chapman, Mary, 62.
Chapman, Gov. Reuben, 56.
Charles, William, 91.
Charlton, Walter Glasco, 19.
Chase, Salmon P., 15.
Chassel, David, 78.
Chichester, Sir Arthur, 13.
Childs, George William, 111.
Chisholm, Henry, 96.
Chisholm, Hugh J., 102.
Chisholm, William, 96.
Christian, William, 20.
Chrystie, Lt.-Col. James, 61.
Claflin, Gov. William, 53.
Claperton, Thomas, 22.
Clark, George A., 104.
Clark, Gen. George Rogers, 4, 31.
Clark, William, 104.
Clarke, Robert, 111.
Cleland, Hon. John, 20.
Coates, J. & J. 104.
Coburn, Gov. Abner, 53.
Cochran, Gov. John P., 54.
Cochran, Rev. Joseph P., 85.
Cochrane, Alexander, 103.
Colbraith, Jeremiah Jones, 41.
Colden, Lt.-Gov. Cadwallader, 32, 113.
Colden, Cadwallader D., 113.
Colt, Samuel, 96.
Corbit, Daniel, 26.
Cowan, William, 22.
Cox, Gov. James M., 57.
Craig, James, 65.
Craig, Dr. James, 75.
Craig, Thomas, 68.
Craighead, Rev. Alexander, 36.
Craighead, Edwin Boone, 80.
Craighead, Rev. Robert, 77.
Craighead, Thomas, 36.
Craighead, Thomas, 77.
Craik, Dr. James, 73.
Crane, Robert Bruce, 89.
Crawford, Gov. Corie Isaac, 59.
Crawford, David, 42.
Crawford, Francis Marion, 83.
Crawford, Gov. Geo. Washington, 42, 56.
Crawford, Dr. John, 73.
Crawford, Dr. John Barclay, 75.
Crawford, Nathl. Macon, 78.
Crawford, Maj.-Gen. Sam. Wylie, 62.
Crawford, Thomas, 83.
Crawford, Thomas, 91.
Crawford, William, 47.
Crawford, William Harris, 42, 78.
Cree, Thomas Kirby, 86.
Crockett, David, 31.
Crooks, Ramsey, 104.
Crow, James, 103.
Cruickshank, Edwin A., 103.
Cruickshank, James, 114.
Cullen, Charles Mason, 49.
Cummings, Rev. Charles, 20.
Cummins, Gov. Albert Baird, 58.
Cummins, William, 22.
Cunningham, Arthur, 17.
Currie, Dr. William, 74.
Curry, Daniel, 78.
Dall, William, 68.
Dall, William Healey, 68.
Dallas, Alexander James, 41, 42.
Dallas, V.-Pres. George Mifflin, 41.
Dallas, Dr. Robert C., 42.
Dallas, Robert Frank, 89.
Dalzell, Robert M., 96.
D’Arnsmont, Mme. Francis, 86.
Davidson, Alexander, 96.
Davidson, Anstruther, 68.
Davidson, Charles, 22.
Davidson, George, 71.
Davidson, Thomas, 79.
Davidson, Brig.-Gen. William, 61.
Dawson, George, 110.
Dawson, Thomas Cleland, 52.
Dempster, John, 78.
Dempster, Rev. John, 85.
Denny, Geo. Hutcheson, 80.
Dick, Alexander L., 91.
Dick, James T., 89.
Dick, Robert, 96.
Dickinson, Pres. John, 30, 33, 39.
Dickinson, Thomas, 101.
Dinsmoor, Robert, 81.
Dinsmoor, Gov. Samuel Sen, 53, 81.
Dinsmoor, Gov. Samuel Jim, 53.
Dinsmore, Hugh Anderson, 52.
Dinwiddie, Gov. Robert, 31, 33.
Dobbin, James Cochrane, 43.
Dobson, Thomas, 111.
Dodge, Gov. Henry, 57.
Dougal, W.H., 91.
Douglas, Senator Stephen Arnold, 45.
Douglas, Thomas, 49.
Dowart, George, 17.
Dowie, Rev. John Alex., 85.
Drummond, James, Earl of Perth, 16.
Drummond, John, 16.
Drummond, Thomas, 49.
Drummond, Gov. William, 34.
Drysdale, Lt.-Gov. Hugh, 33.
Dudgeon, Richard, 98.
Duff, John, 22.
Dun, Rev. James, 106.
Dun, Robert Graham, 106.
Dunbar, Sir William, 30.
Duncan, James, 86.
Duncan, Gov. Joseph, 57.
Duncan, Major Joseph, 57.
Duncan, Matthew, 109.
Dunlap, James, 77.
Dunlap, John, 109.
Dunlap, Robert, 102.
Dunlap, Gov. Robert Pinckney, 53.
Dunlap, William, 88.
Dunlop Families, 103.
Dunlop, Rev. Samuel, 23.
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 32, 34.
Dunsmore, John Ward, 90.
Eccles, Dr. Robert Gibson, 68.
Eckford, Henry, 101.
Eddy, Mary M.B. Glover, 85.
Edison, Thomas Alva, 97.
Edmundson, William, 20.
Elliot, Lt.-Gov. Andrew, 32.
Elliott, Charles, 21.
Erskine, Henry, Lord Cardross, 17.
Erskine, Robert, 60.
Erwin, Benjamin, 19.
Erwin (Ewen), Gov. William, 35.
Erwyn (Irvin), James, 22.
Ewen (Erwin), Gov. William, 35.
Ewing, Gen. James, 60.
Ewing, Thomas, 62.
Ewing, Senator Thomas, 42, 50.
Ewing, Gen. Thomas, 50, 62.
Ewing, Gov. Wm. Lee Davidson, 57.
Ferguson, Dr. Alex. Hugh, 75.
Ferguson, James, 51.
Ferguson, James, 70.
Ferguson, Gov. James Edward, 58.
Ferguson, Patrick, 22.
Ferguson, Thomas, 21.
Ferguson, Thomas Barker, 51.
Ferguson, Wm. Ezra, 96.
Fife, John, 93.
Findlay, Gov. William, 54.
Finlay, Samuel, 80.
Finley, John Huston, 80.
Finley, Robert, 77.
Finley, Samuel, 77.
Fitchie, Thomas, 114.
Fleming, Gov. Francis Philip, 56.
Fleming, John, 108.
Fleming, Peter, 106.
Fleming, Gov. William, 34.
Fleming, Williamina P., 71.
Foord, John, 110.
Forbes, Dr. David, 75.
Forbes, Gen. John, 30.
Forbes, John, 80.
Forbes, John, Jr., 80.
Forbes, John M., 51.
Forbes, Philip Jones, 80.
Forbes, Stephen Alfred, 68.
Forbes, Dr. Wm. Smith, 75.
Ford, Adm. John D., 66.
Forgan, James Berwick, 105.
Forney, Gen. Peter, 27.
Forrest, Edwin, 93.
Forsyth, Alexander, 26.
Forsyth, James Bennett, 97.
Forsyth, John 26.
Forsyth, Gov. John, 55.
Forsyth, Rev. John, 78.
Forsyth, Robert, 26.
Foster, Gov. Charles, 43.
Franklin, Benjamin, 29.
Fraser, Charles, 88.
Fraser, John, 79.
Frazer, John Fries, 69, 78.
Frazer, Persifor, 69.
Frazer, Lt.-Col. Persifor, 69
Frew, Walter E., 105.
Fulton, Robert, 25, 95.
Galloway, Beverly Thomas, 70.
Galloway, John, 70.
Galloway, Joseph, 37.
Galloway, Robert Macy, 114.
Galt, Dr. Alexander D., 75.
Galt, John, 17.
Galt, Dr. John Minson, 75.
Garden, Alexander, 22.
Garden, Dr. Alexander, 70.
Garden, Rev. Alex., 84.
Garden, Mary, 94.
Gardiner, Peter, 22.
Gear, Gov, John Henry, 58.
Geary, Gov. John White, 54.
Geddes, James, 80.
Geddes, James, 99.
Geddes, Brig.-Gen. James Lorraine, 62.
Geddes, Gov. John, 55.
Gibb, James, 114.
Gibboney, David C., 87.
Gibson, Geo. Rutledge, 106.
Gibson, J. & G.H., 93.
Gibson, John, 17.
Gibson, John Bannister, 50.
Gibson, Paris, 31.
Gibson, Randall, 46.
Gibson, Senator Randall Lee, 46.
Gilchrist Gov. Alex. Walter, 56.
Gilchrist, Nimrod, 56.
Gilchrist, Wm. Wallace, 93.
Gilfillan, James, 49.
Gillespie, Rev. George, 84.
Gilmer, Dr. George, 54, 55.
Gilmer, Gov. Geo. Rockingham, 55.
Gilmer, Gov. Thomas Walker, 54.
Gilmor, Robert, Sr., 101.
Gilmor, Robert, Jr., 101.
Gilmore, Mrs., 19.
Gilmour, Neil, 79.
Gilmour, Bishop Richard, 86.
Glassel, Andrew, 105.
Glen, Gov. James. 35.
Glenn, Gustavus R., 79.
Glenn, Nicholas, 79.
Goddard, William, 108.
Gordon, Gov. John Brown, 46, 56, 62.
Gordon, John George, 62.
Gordon, Gov. Patrick, 33.
Gordon, Robert, 16.
Gordon, Thomas, 29.
Gordon, Thomas, 76.
Gordon, Rev. Thomas, 84.
Gordon, Thomas F., 84.
Gordon, Hon. Thomas Knox, 20, 21.
Gordon, Walter Scott, 31.
Gordon, William, 76.
Gordon, Wm. Fitzhugh, 47.
Gorrie, Rev. Peter Douglas, 85.
Gouinlock, Dr. Wm. Chalk, 102.
Gracie, Archibald, 113.
Graeme, David, 20.
Graeme, Hon. James, 20.
Graeme, Judge James, 20.
Graham, David, 109.
Graham, George, 51.
Graham, Isabella, 77, 86.
Graham, Recorder James, 29, 113.
Graham, John, 51.
Graham, Gen. Joseph, 55.
Graham, William, 19.
Graham, William, 77.
Graham, Gov. Wm. Alexander, 43, 55.
Grant, Daniel, 22.
Grant, Gov. James Benton, 59.
Grant, John, 22.
Grant, John T., 106.
Grant, Matthew, 40.
Grant, Pres. U.S., 40.
Grant, William, 22.
Gray, Asa, 15, 70.
Gray, David, 83.
Gray, George, 49.
Gray, John, 22.
Greeley, Horace, 15, 110.
Gregg, David McMurtrie, 63.
Gregory, Judge William, 21.
Gregory, Gov. William, 54.
Grier, Robert Cooper, 48.
Grieve, Miller, 51.
Grimes, Gov. James Wilson, 58.
Grindlay, James, 21.
Guffey, James McClurg, 102.
Guffey, Wesley S., 102.
Guthrie, James, 42.
Guthrie, John, 67.
Guthrie, Dr. Samuel, 67.
Hadley, Prof. James, 78.
Haig, George, 21.
Haig, Thomas, 93.
Hall, David, 108.
Hall, James, 36.
Hall, William, 108.
Hallidie, Andrew L., 97.
Hamilton, Gen. Alexander, 28.
Hamilton, Andrew, 29.
Hamilton, Andrew, 43.
Hamilton, Gov. Andrew, 32, 33.
Hamilton, Gen. Charles S., 62.
Hamilton, Gov. James, 29, 33.
Hamilton, Gov. John, 32, 33, 80.
Hamilton, John L., 93.
Hamilton, Morris, R., 80.
Hanna, Senator Marcus Alonzo, 46.
Harkness, William, 71.
Harper, Gov. Joseph Morrill, 53.
Harper, William, 50.
Harrison, Pres. Benjamin, 40.
Harrison, Caroline Scott, 40.
Hart, James McDougall, 89.
Hart, William, 89.
Harvey, Geo. B. McC., 52.
Harvey, Stuart, 52.
Harvie, Andrew, 78.
Harvie, John, 30.
Hay, Sir Alexander. 13.
Hay, John, 43.
Hayes, George. 40.
Hayes, Pres. Rutherford B., 40.
Henderson, David. 93.
Henderson, David Bremner, 47.
Henderson, J., 93.
Henderson, John, 104.
Henderson, Peter, 71.
Henderson, Thomas, 104.
Hendricks, Gov. Thomas Andrews, 41, 57.
Hendry, James. 22.
Henry, Joseph, 67.
Henry, Patrick, 5, 28, 34, 36.
Henry, Theodore Crosby, 99.
Henry, Gen. Wm. Wirt, 60.
Hepburn, Alonzo Barton, 105.
Hepburn, Dr. Neil Jamieson, 75.
Hepburn, Patrick, 105.
Hewitt, Abram S., 114.
Hinschelwood, Robert, 90.
Hogg, Gov. James Stephen, 58.
Hogg, William James. 103.
Hooper, William (Signer), 30.
Hope, James, 88.
Hosack, Dr. David, 67.
Houston, Gov. George Smith, 56.
Houston, John, 58
Houston, Gov. John, 35.
Houston, John Wallace, 49.
Houston, Sir Patrick, 30, 35, 47.
Houston, Samuel, 19, 56, 58.
Houston. William, 30, 47.
Hume, Robert, 21.
Humphreys, Alex. Crombie, 68.
Hunter, Anne Nancy, 57.
Hunter, Gov. Robert, 32, 33.
Hunter, Whiteside Godfrey, 52.
Hunter, William, 51.
Hutchins, Elizabeth, 40.
Hutchins, Thomas. 99.
Hyslop, George, 80.
Hyslop, James Hervey, 79.
“Ik Marvel,” 82.
Imlan, Gilbert, 81.
Inglis, Mungo, 76.
Inglis, William, 17.
Ingraham, Edward D., 87.
Innes, Harry, 50.
Innes. James, 76.
Innes. Col. James, 31.
Inness, George, 89.
Irving, Washington, 81.
Irwin, Theodore, 102.
Ivison, David B., 111.
Ivison, Henry, 111.
Jackson, Pres. Andrew, 40.
Jackson. Gen. Thomas, Jr., 63.
Jaffray, Jean, 67.
Jameson, Dr. David, 74.
Jameson, Dr. Horatio G., 74.
Jamison, David, 113.
Jay Chief Justice John, 4.
Jefferson, Thomas, 30.
John, Sir Augustus, 21.
Johnson, Gov. James, 56.
Johnson, Sir William, 23.
Johnson, Gen. Albert Sydney, 28.
Johnston, Bartlett, 27.
Johnston, Prof. Christopher, 28.
Johnston, Dr. Christopher, 28.
Johnston, Gov. Gabriel, 18, 27, 34, 76.
Johnston, Gilbert, 27.
Johnston, James, 27.
Johnston, Col. James, 27.
Johnston, Capt. James, 27.
Johnston, James, 109.
Johnston, Bishop James S., 86.
Johnston, John, 27.
Johnston, John, 28.
Johnston, John Humphreys, 89.
Johnston, Lt.-Col. Joseph Eccleston, 28.
Johnston, Gov. Joseph Forney, 27, 56.
Johnston, Mary, 83
Johnston, Peter, 28.
Johnston, Peter, 83.
Johnston, Robert, 28.
Johnston, Brig.-Gen. Robert, 27.
Johnston, Gov. Samuel, 27, 34.
Johnston, Col. William, 27.
Johnston, Dr. William, 27.
Johnston, Gov. William Freame, 54.
Johnstone, Gov. George, 35.
Johnstone, John, 16.
Jones, Admiral John. Paul, 65.
Kasson, John Adam, 51.
Kay, William, 83.
Keith, Benjamin Franklin, 94.
Keith, Rev. George, 29.
Keith, William, 89.
Keith, Sir William, 33.
Kell, Capt. John McIntosh, 65.
Kellogg, Edward Henry, 102.
Kemp, Bishop James, 85.
Kemp, John, 77.
Kennedy, Hon. Archibald, 29.
Kennedy, David, 22.
Kennedy, James, 83.
Kennedy, John S., 114.
Kennedy, Robert Lenox, 114.
Ker, Walter, 16.
Kerr, Edward, 102.
Kerr, Senator John Leeds, 45.
Kerr, Washington C., 69.
Killen, William, 48.
Kincannon, Andrew A., 80.
Kincannon, James, 80.
King, James, 22.
King, John Crookshanks, 91.
Kinloch, Hon. James, 20.
Kinloch, Dr. Robert A., 75.
Kinzie, John, 31.
Kirk, James Smith 102.
Kirk, Gov. Richard, 53.
Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice Andrew, 48.
Kirkpatrick, Judge Andrew, 48.
Kirkwood, Daniel, 78.
Kirkwood, James Pugh, 99.
Kirkwood, Mayor Robert, 58, 61.
Kirkwood, Robert, 78.
Kirkwood, Gov. Samuel Jordan, 43, 58.
Knox, Gen. Henry, 15, 60.
Laidlaw, William Grant, 47.
Laird, Samuel, 31.
Lamont, Charles A., 114.
Lamont, Daniel Scott, 42.
Lamont, Neil, 114.
Lamont, Thomas W., 105.
Lauder, George, 102.
Laurie, James, 99.
Lawrie, Gawen (Gavin), 16.
“Lawrie Todd,” 71.
Lawson, Alexander, 90.
Lawson, Helen E., 91.
Lawson, James, 82.
Lawson, John, 81.
Lawson, Oscar A., 90.
Lee, Col. Henry, 28.
Lee, James P., 97.
Leiper, Thomas, 28.
Lenox, James, 113.
Leisley, J. Peter, 69.
Lewis, Andrew, 20.
Lewis, Ellis, 48.
Lewis, Gen. Morgan, 25.
Lindsay, Donald, 101.
Lindsay, E.J., 103.
Lindsay, James Edwin, 101.
Lindsay, John, 22.
Lindsay, Gov. Robert Burns, 56.
Linen, James Alex., 106.
Living, Dr. John, 73.
Littlejohn, Bishop Abram N., 85.
Littlejohn, Hugh, 85.
Livingston, Adam, 47.
Livingston, Edward, 25.
Livingston, Col. James, 61.
Livingston, Rev. John, 36.
Livingston, Leonidas Felix, 47.
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 25.
Livingston, Philip, 2nd Lord, 25.
Livingston, Philip (The Signer), 25, 39.
Livingston, Robert, 25, 33, 39.
Livingston, Robert R., 25.
Livingston, Dr. Robert R., 75.
Livingston. Gov. William, 25, 33.
Lockhart, Charles, 102.
Logan, David, 19.
Logan, Senator George, 45.
Logan, Judge James, 33.
Logan, Gov. James, 45.
Logan, Gen. John A., 63.
Logan, Patrick, 33.
Logan, Thomas, 87.
Logan, William, 21.
Longstreet, Augustus B., 81.
Longstreet, Augustus B., 95.
Longstreet, William, 95.
Lorimer, George Horace, 111.
London, John Earl of, 34.
Lovejoy, Francis T.F., 103.
Lowrie, Senator Walter, 45.
Lyall, James, 97.
Macalister, Charles, 78.
Macalister, James, 79.
McAllister, Addams S., 98.
McAllister, Archibald, 63.
McAllister, Hugh (of 1732), 98.
McAllister, Major Hugh, 31.
McAllister, James Gray, 80.
McAllister, Matthew Hall, 49.
McAllister, Maj.-Gen. Robert, 63.
McAllisters of Philadelphia, 68.
McAlpin, David Hunter, 103.
McArthur, John Arthur, 63.
McArthur, Lt.-Gen. Arthur, 63.
McArthur, Lt.-Gov. Arthur, 82.
McArthur, Chas. Lafayette, 63.
McArthur, Douglas, 63.
McArthur, Gov. Duncan, 57.
McArthur, John, 92.
McArthur, Maj.-Gen. John, 63.
McArthur, Rev. Robert S., 85.
MacBean, Thomas, 92.
MacBean, William, 22.
McBride, John McLaren, 79.
Macbride, Thos. Huston, 70.
McBurney, Dr. Charles, 75.
McCall, Gen. Geo. Archibald, 63.
McCall, Hugh, 81.
McCall, John Augustine, 106.
McCallum, Maj.-Gen. Daniel C., 63.
McCann, William Penn, 65.
McCauley, Alexander, 21.
McCaw, Dr. James, 74.
McCaw, Dr. James Brown, 74.
McClanahan, Alexander, 20.
McClellan, Dr. George, 74.
McClellan, George (the anatomist), 74.
McClellan, Gen. George B., 15, 26.
McClellan, Geo. B., 27.
McClellan, James, 26.
McClellan, Prof. John Hill B., 74.
McClelland, Gov. Robert, 57.
McClement, John Hall, 106.
McClintock, James, 17.
McClintock, Rev. John, 85.
McClintock, Rev. Samuel, 85.
McCook, Major Daniel, 63.
McCook, Gov. Edward Moody, 58.
McCook, Dr. John, 63.
MacCorkle, Capt. John, 55.
MacCorkle, Gov. Wm. Alexander, 55.
McCormack, Cyrus Hall, 95.
McCormack, James, 95.
McCosh, Rev. James, 78.
McCrea, James, 106.
McCue, John, 19.
McCulloch, Hugh, 15.
McCulloch, Hugh, 42.
McCurdy, Charles, Johnston, 51.
McCutcheon, George Barr, 83.
McCutcheon, John, 83.
Macdonald, Adam, 21.
Macdonald, Alexander, 91.
Macdonald, Alexander, 103.
McDonald, Senator Alexander, 46.
McDonald, Angus, 99.
McDonald, Gov. Chas. James, 55.
Macdonald, Duncan Black, 80.
McDonald, Flora, 17.
McDonald, Hunter, 99.
McDonald, James, 59.
Macdonald, Dr. James, 75.
McDonald, Gov. Jesse Fuller, 59.
McDonald, John, 46.
Macdonald, John Louis, 47.
Macdonald, Senator Joseph Ewing, 45.
McDonald, Marshall, 68.
McDonnell, John, 30.
Macdonough, Thomas, 26.
McDougal, Maj.-Gen. Clinton D., 63.
Macdougal, David Trembly, 70.
McDougall, Maj.-Gen. Alex, 60.
McDougall, Gov. John, 59.
MacDowell, Edward Alex., 93.
McDowell, Ephraim, 19.
McDowell, Dr. Ephraim, 73.
McDowell, Maj.-Gen. Irvin, 63.
McDowell, John, 19.
McDowell, Col. Samuel, 20, 31.
McDuffie, Gov. George, 55.
McElhone, John J., 111.
McElwain, William Howe, 103.
McEnery, Gov. John, 57.
McEnery, Gov. Samuel Douglas, 57.
MacEwen, Walter, 89.
Macfarlane, Robert. 82.
Macfarlane, Will. C., 93.
McGaw, Alexander, 92.
McGee, William John 69.
McGilvary, William, 42.
McGilvra, John Jay, 87.
MacGregor, Rev. James, 12, 14.
McIlvaine, Bishop Chas. P., 85.
McIlvaine, Senator Joseph, 46.
McIlvaine, Joshua Hall, 79.
Maclnnes, Duncan, 106.
McIntosh, Alexander, 21.
McIntosh, Col. John, 19.
McIntosh, John “Mor,” 109.
McIntosh, Gen. Lachlan, 19, 61.
McIntosh, Maria J., 82.
McIntire, Samuel, 93.
MacIntyre, Finloe (Finlay), 22.
MacIntyre, John. 22.
McIntyre, Rev. Robert, 85.
Mackay, Ensign Charles, 19.
Mackay, Donald, 101.
Mackay, Geo. Devereux, 107.
McKay, Gordon, 96.
Mackay, Capt. Hugh, 18, 19.
Mackay, John (of 1760), 107.
Mackaye, James M. Steele, 83.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace, 83.
McKean, Joseph, 78.
McKean, Thomas (Signer), 38, 54.
McKean, Rev. Thomas, 36.
McKean, William, 38.
McKean, William Vincent, 112.
McKeand, John, 65.
McKeen, Joseph, 77.
McKeever, Commodore Isaac, 65.
MacKellar, Thomas, 112.
McKelway, St. Clair, 110.
Mackenzie, Alexander, 63.
Mackenzie, Donald. 104.
Mackenzie, James Cameron, 79.
McKenzie, John, 31.
Mackenzie, John, 80.
Mackenzie, Rev. Robert. 85.
Mackenzie, Robert Shelton. 82.
Mackenzie, Robert Tait, 91.
Mackenzie, William, 102.
Mackenzie, Rev. Wm. 91.
Mackenzie, Wm. Douglas, 80.
McKesson, John, 101.
Mackie, John Milton, 82.
McKie, Patrick, 21.
McKim, James Miller, 86.
McKinley, David, 40.
McKinley, Pres. William, 40.
McKinley, Gov. John, 33.
McLane, Col. Allan, 60.
McLane, Allen, 42, 51.
McLane, Gov. John, 53.
McLane, Louis. 42.
McLane, Gov. Robert Milligan, 42, 51, 54.
McLaren, Bishop Wm. Edward, 85.
McLaughlin, Andrew C., 80.
McLaurin, Gov. Anselm Joseph, 57.
Maclaurin, Richard C., 80.
Maclay, Robert, 114.
McLean, Andrew, 110.
Maclean, George Edwin, 79.
McLean, Gov. George Payne. 54.
McLean, Dr. James Henry, 75.
McLean, Dr. John, Sr., 67.
McLean, Dr. John, Jr., 67.
McLean, John, 43, 49.
McLean, John 79.
McLean, John, 86.
McLean, John, 109.
McLean, John R., 110.
McLean, Major Nathaniel, 109.
McLean, Washington, 110.
McLean, William, 100.
McLeod, Rev. Alexander, 82, 85.
McLeod, Angus A., 107.
Macleod, Donald, 82.
Macleod, Xavier Donald, 82.
Maclien (McLean), Allen, 22.
Maclure, William, 68.
McMillan, Alexander, 109.
McMillan, Senator Samuel Hugh, 46.
McMillan, John ("The Upright"), 46.
Macmillan, Sen. Sam. Jas. Renwick, 46.
Macmillan, William, 71.
McMillin, Gov. Benton, 56.
McMinn, Gov. Joseph. 56.
MacMonnies, Fred William, 91.
McMurtry. George Gibson, 101.
McNair, Gov. Alexander, 58.
McNair, Fred. V., 66.
McNair, Samuel, 66.
McNaught, William, 25.
McNaughton, Dr. James, 74.
MacNeil, Herman Atkins, 91.
McNeil, Brig.-Gen. John, 63.
McNeill, Neill, 17.
McNeill, Wm. Gibbs, 99.
McNess, John, 21.
MacNutt, Capt. John, 55.
McPheeters, William, 19.
Macpherson, Angus Neilson, 101.
Macpherson, Isaac, 21.
Macpherson, Gen. James B., 63.
Macpherson, Major John, 60.
Macpherson, Capt. John, 108.
McPherson, John H.T., 83.
McPherson, Robert, 83.
Macpherson, Gen. William, 61.
Macqueen, Dougall, 22.
McRae, Gov. John J., 57.
Macrae, Brig.-Gen. William, 64.
McRuer, Dr. Daniel, 74.
McVeagh, Franklin, 43.
McVeagh, Wayne, 51.
MacVicar, John, 86.
McVicar, Malcolm, 79.
McWhorter, Rev. Alex., 84.
McWillie, Gov. William, 57.
Machen, Matthew, 17.
Macomb, Alexander, 109.
Macomb, William, 109.
Magill Families, 103.
Magonigle, Harold Van B., 92.
Magonigle, John, 92.
Magoon, Isaac, 31.
Magruder, Commander George, 63.
Magruder, Gen. John B., 63.
Makemie, Rev. Frances, 22, 84. 113.
Malcolm, William, 97.
Mantell, Robert Bruce, 93.
Marble, Dr. Albert P., 114.
Marion, Gen., 27.
Marshall, John, 17.
Marshall, Chief Justice John, 48.
Marshall, Thomas, 17.
Marshall, William, 103.
Martin, Alexander, 79.
Martin, Gov. Alexander, 34.
Martin, Gov. John Alexander, 58.
Martin, Gov. Noah, 53.
Mason, Rev. John, 77, 84.
Mason, Rev. John Mitchell, 77.
Mather, Rev. Cotton, 15.
Mathews, Col. Samson, 20.
Maxwell, Dr. Geo. Troup, 75.
Maxwell, Hugh, 87, 113.
Maxwell, Hugh, 95.
Maxwell, Lawrence, 87.
Maywood, Robert C., 93.
Medill, Joseph, 110.
Mein, John, 108.
Melish or Mellish, John, 81.
Melvil, William, 22.
Melville, Rear Admiral George W., 66.
Mercer, Gen. Hugh, 54, 60, 74.
Mercer, Jesse, 77.
Mercer, John, 87.
Mercer, Gov. John Francis, 54.
Michie, Hon. James, 20.
Michie, Peter Smith, 68.
Middleton, Dr. Peter, 74.
Millar, Addison Thomas, 89.
Miller, Gov. Stephen Decatur, 55.
Milligan, John J., 48.
Mitchel, Gen. Ormsby McKnight, 70.
Mitchell, Dr. Alexander, 74.
Mitchell, Alexander, 105.
Mitchell, Gov. David Brodie, 55.
Mitchell, Donald Grant, 82.
Mitchell, Henry, 93.
Mitchell, Dr. John K., 74.
Mitchell, Senator John Lendrum, 46.
Mitchell, Maria, 70.
Mitchell, Dr. Silas Weir, 74.
Mitchell, William, 70.
Moffat, James C., 82.
Mouet, Col. George, 20.
Monroe, Andrew, 40.
Monroe, Pres. James, 40.
Montgomerie, Gov. John, 32.
Montgomery, Edmund Duncan, 68.
Montgomery, John, 19.
Montgomery, Capt. John B., 65.
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, 25, 60.
Montgomery, Thos. Harrison, 68.
Moonlight, Gov. Thomas, 59.
Moore, Daniel McFarlan, 97.
Morris, Gov. Robert Hunter, 33. 49.
Morrison, Bishop James Dow, 85.
Morrison, John, 83.
Morrison, Rev. John, 85.
Morrison, Leonard A., 12, 83.
Morrow, Gov. Jeremiah, 57.
Morse, Samuel F.B., 77.
Morton, Alexander, 96.
Morton, Paul, 43.
Morton, Richard, 43.
Morton, Dr. William T.G., 75.
Moultrie, Dr. John, 55, 61.
Moultrie, Gen. William, 21, 55, 61.
Muir, John, 69.
Muir, John Allan, 107.
Munro, David A., 110.
Munro, George, 111.
Munro, Norman Leslie, 111.
Munroe, Daniel, 93.
Munroe, Nathaniel, 93.
Murdoch, James Edward, 93.
Murdoch, William, 22, 36.
Murdock, James, 81.
Murray, Capt. Alexander, 65.
Murray, Gov. Eli Houston, 59.
Murray, George, 90.
Murray, John, 21.
Murray, John, Earl of Dunmore, 32, 34.
Murray, Patrick, 22.
Nairne, Thomas, 21.
Neill, Richard Renshaw, 52.
Neilson, Wm. Allan, 80.
Nelson, Samuel, 49.
Nicholson, Family, 65.
Nisbet, Eugenius Aristides, 48.
Noble, Gov. Noah, 57.
Noble, Gov. Patrick, 55.
Notman, John, 92.
Ochiltree, Lord, 13.
Oliphant, David, 21.
Oliver, James, 96.
Orr, Alexander Ector, 114.
Orr, Hugh, 95.
Orr, Nathaniel, 90.
Orr, Robert, 95.
Orr, William, 95.
Orrach (Orrock?) Alexander, 22.
Oswald, Col. Eleazar, 108.
Owen, David Dale, 69.
Owen, Richard, 69.
Owen, Robert Dale, 86.
(Page), Robert, 19.
Parsons, Wm. Barclay, 99.
Paterson, Maj.-Gen. John, 62.
Paterson, Matthew, 31.
Paterson, Gov. William, 33, 49.
Patillo, Rev. Henry, 30.
Paton, John, 17.
Patterson, Carlile Pollock, 68.
Patterson, James Kennedy, 79.
Patterson, Robert, 77.
Patterson, Robert M., 77.
Pattison, Dr. Granville Sharp, 74.
Patton, Gov. John Mercer, 54.
Patton, Robert, 54.
Patton, Gov. Robert Miller, 56.
Peckover, James, 97.
Perth, James Drummond, Earl of, 16.
Pettigrew, Bishop Charles, 85.
Pharr, Gov. John Newton, 58.
Pharr, Walter, 58.
Phillips, Wm. Addison, 64.
Phyfe, Duncan, 93.
Pickens, Gen. Andrew, 55, 61.
Pickens, Gov. Andrew, 55.
Pickens, Gov. Israel, 56.
Pinkerton, Allan, 28.
Pitcairn, Robert, 102, 107.
Poage, Robert, 19.
Polk, Gov. Charles, 54.
Polk, Pres. James Knox, 40.
Polk, Robert, 40.
Polk, Gov. Trusten, 58.
Pollock, Gov. James, 54.
Pollock, Robert, 40.
Preston, Col. William, 20.
Pringle, Robert, 21.
Purdie, Alex., 109.
Ralston, Wm. Chapman, 102.
Ramage, Adam, 112.
Ramsay, David, 81.
Ramsay, Rear Adm’l Francis M., 66.
Ramsay, Patrick, 66.
Ramsey, Gov. Alexander, 58
Rankine, William Birch, 87.
Rantoul, Robert, 86, 87.
Rattray, Hon. John, 20, 21.
Read (of Delaware), 36.
Read, Adm’l George Campbell, 65.
Redpath, James, 110.
Reed, Gov. Joseph, 33.
Reed, Joseph, 37.
Reed, William Bradford, 51.
Reid, James Douglas, 102.
Reid, Whitelaw, 4, 12, 51, 110.
Renwick, Edward Sabine, 67.
Renwick, Henry Brevoort, 67, 99.
Renwick, Prof. James, 67, 99.
Renwick, James (architect), 67, 92.
Reyburn, John Edgar, 47.
Rhind, Rear Adm’l Alex. Colden, 65.
Rhind, David, 77.
Rhind, John Massey, 91.
Richardson, Henry H., 92.
Riddle, John Wallace, 52.
Ridpath, John Clark, 83.
Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 88.
Ritchie, Thomas, 109.
Roberts, John, 91.
Robertson, George, 48.
Robertson, James, 31.
Robertson, Gov. James, 32.
Robertson, John, 22.
Robertson, Adj.-Gen. John, 64.
Robertson, Wm. Joseph, 49
Robinson, Gov. James Fisher, 57.
Rodgers, Capt. John, 65.
Rogers, Henry Darwin, 69.
Rogers, William Barton, 69.
Rollins, James Sidney, 78.
Ronald, Gen. Andrew, 30.
Ronald, William, 30.
Ronaldson, James, 111, 112.
Roosevelt, Pres. Theodore, 17, 27, 40.
Ross, Betsy, 38.
Ross, Elizabeth (Griscom), 38.
Ross, George (Signer), 21, 38.
Ross, John, 30.
Ross, John D., 83.
Ross, Thomas, 22.
Rowan, Gov. Matthew, 34.
Russell, Gov. David Lindsay, 55.
Rutherford, Gen., 27.
Rutherford, Gov. John, 54.
Rutherford, Senator John, 45.
Rutherford, Sir John, 45.
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, 71.
Rutledge, Andrew, 20.
Rutledge, Gov. Edward, 35, 36, 38, 55.
Rutledge, Judge John, 4, 48.
Rutledge, Gov. John, 35, 36.
Rutledge, Dr. John, 38.
Rutledge, Thomas, 21.
St. Clair, Arthur, 61.
Sandeman, Rev. Robert, 84.
Saunders, William, 71.
Saxby, Hon. George, 20.
Scott, Alfred B., 102.
Scott, Archibald, 19.
Scott, George, 16.
Scott, James, 102.
Scott, John Morin, 47.
Scott, Gov. Robert Kingston, 55.
Scott, Thomas A., 106.
Scott, Walter, 114.
Scott, Rev. Walter, 85.
Scott, Wm. Berryman, 70.
Scott, William Henry, 79.
Scott, Lt.-Gen. Winfield, 62.
Scoular, William, 82.
Seaton, William Wiston, 111.
Seton, Elizabeth Ann B., 86.
Seton, Archbishop Robert, 86.
Shaw, Robert, 91.
Shields, Gov. James, 59.
Shirlaw, Walter, 89.
Sigourney, Lydia (Huntley), 81.
Simpson, James, 21.
Simpson, William, 21.
Sinclair, Angus, 100.
Sinclair, John, 21.
Sinclair, John, 22.
Sinkler, James, 21.
Skene, Hon. Alexander, 20, 29.
Skene, Dr. Alex J. Chalmers, 75.
Skirving, James, Sen., 21.
Skirving, James, Jun., 21.
Skirving, William, 21.
Sloan, Samuel, 106.
Sloan, Wm. Milligan, 79.
Sloane, William, 79.
Sloane, William, 103.
Smibert, John, 88.
Smiley, Albert Keith, 86.
Smillie, George Henry, 89.
Smillie, James, 90, 91.
Smillie, James, David, 89.
Smillie, William Main, 91.
Smith, George, 17.
Smith, George, 105.
Smith, Hezekiah Wright, 90.
Smith, Gov. Jeremiah, 53.
Smith, Judge Jeremiah, 53.
Smith, Gov. John Butler, 53.
Smith, Russell, 88.
Smith, Thos. Lachlan, 89.
Smith, William, 17.
Smith, William, 77.
Smith, Gov. William E., 57.
Smith, William R., 71.
Smith, Xanthus, 88.
Spalding, Alexander. 22.
Spence, Dr. John, 73.
Spotswood, Lt.-Gov. Alexander, 33.
Stark, Gen. John, 15, 61.
Stephen, Dr. Adam, 73.
Stephens, Gov. Alex. Hamilton, 56.
Stephens, Henry Morse, 83.
Stevenson, Adlai E., 41, 44.
Stevenson, Charles, 21.
Stevenson, Dr. John, 31.
Stevenson, John James, 70.
Stevenson, Gov. Wm. Erskine, 54.
Steward, David, 22.
Stewart, Alexander Turney, 113.
Stewart, Gen. Daniel, 62.
Stewart, James Fleming, 47.
Stewart, John Aikman, 105.
Stewart, Gov. John Wolcott, 53.
Stewart, Rachel, 40.
“Stirling,” Wm. Alexander, “Lord,” 62.
Stobo, Rev. Archibald, 17, 27.
Stobo, Jean, 27.
Stobo, Major Richard, 29.
Stoddart, James H., 94.
Stoddert, Benjamin, 43.
“Stonewall” Jackson, 63.
Stoot, Hugh Gordon, 99.
Stuart, Alexander, 113.
Stuart, Alex. Hugh Holmes, 43.
Stuart, Andrew, 109.
Stuart, Archibald, 43, 54.
Stuart, Senator, Charles E., 45.
Stuart, Daniel, 45.
Stuart, Dr. Ferdinand C., 74.
Stuart, Gilbert Charles, 88.
Stuart, Gov. Henry Carter, 54.
Stuart, Hon. John, 20.
Stuart, Robert, 2.
Stuart, Robert, 104.
Stuart, Robert L., 113.
Swinton, William, 82.
Syme, John, 17.
Synge, Archbishop, 14.
Tait, John Robinson, 89.
Taylor, Alexander, 114.
Taylor, George, 38.
Taylor, Dr. James Ridley, 75.
Taylor, John, 75.
Taylor, Rev. Nathaniel, 22.
Taylor, Thomas, 96.
Telfair, Gov. Edward, 35.
Tennant, Rev. William, 21, 36.
Tennant, Families, 103.
Thompson, Gov. David P., 59.
Thompson, Frank, 106.
Thompson, Bishop Hugh Miller, 86.
Thompson, John Edgar, 106.
Thompson, Robert M., 103.
Thomson, T. Kennard, 99.
Thorburn, Grant, 71.
Thornton, Matthew, 15, 36, 38.
Tilghman, Chief Justice, 37.
Todd, Thomas, 48.
Torrance, David, 50.
Traill, Rev. William, 22, 84.
Trimble, Gov. Allen, 57.
Troup, Gov. Geo. McIntosh, 55.
Turnbull, Dr. Chas. Smith, 75.
Turnbull, Fred’k, 93.
Turnbull, Rev. Robert, 82.
Turnbull, Wm. Paterson, 68.
Tweedale, William, 99.
Umphraville, Angus, 82.
Ure, William Agnew, 110.
Urie, Robert, 17.
Urquhart, Edmond, 102.
Vallance, John, 90.
Verplanck, Gulian C., 37.
Waddell, Rev. James, 19, 84.
Waddell, Moses, 78.
Waldo, Gen. Samuel, 15.
Walker, George, 31.
Walker, Lt.-Gov. James A., 64.
Walker, John, 64.
Walker, William, 29.
Wallace, Charles William, 83.
Wallace, Gov. David, 57.
Wallace, John Findley, 100.
Wallace, Gen. Lew, 82.
Wallace, William Ross, 82.
Warden, William Grey, 101.
Watson, Dr. John, 74.
Watson, Dr. William, 67.
Watts, John, 113.
Weir, John Ferguson, 90.
Weir, Robert Walter, 88.
Wells, John, 109.
Wells, Robert, 109.
Wellstood, John Geikie, 90.
Wellstood, William, 91.
White, Alexander, 31.
Wilkeson, Samuel, 31.
Williamson, Dr. Hugh, 67.
Williamson, John, 89.
Willocks, George, 16.
Wilson, Alexander, 67, 90.
Wilson Henry, 22.
Wilson, V.-Pres. Henry, 41.
Wilson, Rev. James, 36.
Wilson, James (Signer), 38, 48.
Wilson, James, 40.
Wilson, James, 43.
Wilson, James, 91.
Wilson, James Grant, 82.
Wilson, John, 111.
Wilson, John Cochrane, 80.
Wilson, Peter, 77.
Wilson, William, 82.
Wilson, William Bauchop, 43.
Wilson, Pres. Woodrow, 40.
Windrim, James Hamilton, 92.
Winton, Alexander, 98.
Witherspoon, John, 4, 36, 37, 39.
Wood, Mary, 28.
Woodrow, Janet, 40.
Woodrow, Rev. Thomas, 40.
Wright, Fanny, 86.
Wylie, Samuel Brown, 78.
Young, David, 99.
Young, John, 17.
Yule, George, 102.
Zenger, John Peter, 29.