The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-10

THOMAS 3. WRIGHT
to that END it invites Contributions from
all who have appropriate data at command.
matter has been obtained; an incredible
number OF the men who have moulded the
desflnies OF this country have been proven
10 have sprung from this indomitabfe race
Among them are Patrick Henry, Thomas
Jefferson. John Witherspoon, John Paul
Jones, James Madison, John Marshall,
andrew Jackson, James X. Polk, James
buchanan, Lincoln and Grant. Then there
was stout old Davy Crockett and Sam
Houston, the Washington of Texas; Rob-
ert Fulton and Horace Greeley, and that
remarkable family, the Perrys.
In regard to the last named will quote
from letter which President Bonner re-
Gently received, because it shows the man
ner In which material for the Scotch-Irish
history is coming in all the time A lady
writes from Connecticut city as fol-
lows:
Il beg to mention among the sailors of
New England, of Scotch Irish blood. nv
i've uncles, Commodore O. H. Perry, Of
Lake Erie fame; Captain Raymond d. J.
Perry, who commanded one of the vessels
on Lake Champlain under Commodore
McDonough; Commodore NJ. c. Perry.
who crowned life of naval distinction
and glory, by opening the ports of Japan
to the commerce of the world; Lieutenant
James Alexander Perry, who died at the
age of O-he was midshipman at the
time of the battle of Lake Erie, wanting a
little Of IL years old he acted as Commo-
dore Perry's aid, and was voted q sword
by congress, being probably the youngest
recipient Of . national sword of honor in
the world My youngest uncle, Nathaniel
Hazard Perry, purser in the navy, was
too young TO take any part in the war of
1872 born, 1904; died, fs32 Their father
was Commodore C. r. Perry, U. s. n,
who had some Scotch-Irish blood in his
veins from his mother. Their mother was
Sarah Alexander, of County Down,
daughter Of Sarah Wallace and James
Such historical references rs this. with
the tracing Of the Scotch-Irish descent are
desired by the society, and they are COM
ing IN fast. Mr.. Bonner named me more
men OF Scotch-Irish blood who were prom
inent in this country's history than /
could have called up with no limitations
as to descent. Mr.. Bonner's enthusiasm
in this research made him the victim of a
good bit of satire, shot at him by Mr..
Oliver Dyer, long associated with the Bon
ners in the Ledger Office, and known to
everybody IN New York. Mr.. Bonner had
noted Scotch-frishmen, and was diving
further and further into the depths of
history, when Mr.. Dyer interrupted him
with the remark. IF you keep on You'll
make out st. Paul to be Scotch-Irish.n
There is no need of going back as far as
that. Even in these alleged degenerate
days there are plenty of Scotch-Irish worth
society's officers will show:
President, Robert Bonner, New York
city; .vice-president general, Rev. J. s. Nc
Intosh, DID,, Philadelphia, Pa; first vice
president at large, J. II. Johnston. Bir-
mingham. Ala; second vice president at
large, 1. I. Wright, Nashville, Tenn. Sec
rotary, A. G. Floyd, Columbia, Tenn;
treasurer, Lucius Frierson, Columbia. Tenn.
Vice presidents for states and territories
New Hampshire. James w. Patterson. Con-
cord, Massachusetts,, Professor A. l.. Perry,
Williamstown; Connecticut, u. s. Calhoun,
Hartford; New York, Rev. John Hail. ID.
d.. New York city; Pennsylvania, Colonel
a, n Mcclure; Philadelphia; New Jersey.
Thomas n. McCarter, Newark; Ohio,
Matthew Addy, Cincinnati; Illinois, Judge
John M. Scott, Bloomington; California.
Alexander Montgomery. San Francisco;
Iowa, z. NJ. Cassidy, Des Moines; Virginia,
William Writ Henry, Richmond; North
Carolina. s. b. Alexander, Charlotte; Geor-
gia, Campbell Wallace, Atlanta; Missis-
Jackson; Louisiana, William Preston
Johnston, New Orleans; Tennessee, A. G.
Adams, Nashville; Kentucky, DR.. Harvey
Mcdowell, Cynthiana; Ontario, Canada,
A. I. Wood, Hamilton.
Almost ali the states represented here
have local societies in a hourishing condi-
ton. That in California, of which Mr.
Montgomery Is president, is such an im-
portant organization that there was some
talk of its being the entertainer of this
years congress, but the distance proved
bar. Mr.. Montgomery, who has no end of
money and very generous heart, has
recently given $4,000 for the erection of
the state society's building in San Fran
cisco. Pennsylvania is stronghold of the
Scotch-Irish. The state society has DIR.
Mcintosh for president. His address be-
fore the congress this year will be on Our
Pledge to Posterity; or, the Scotch-Irish
Today and Tomorrow"
Tennessee is also particularly strong in
that element of a sturdy population. The
president of the state society Is Lemuel X.
Campbell. of Nashville. AT present the
headquarters of the national society may
be said to be in Columbia, Tenn, where
the secretary, Mr.. Floyd, resides. There
has been some discussion as 10 the cree
ton of building as the societys home,
but that will come later. When il Is put
up il may be in Pittsburg, but that Is not
settled. Columbia, which, if it were not
so far south, would be the place for 1t, is,
as one may say, the birthplace of the
society; and, besides, it stands in that
grant of land given TO General Green after
the Revolutionary war, which became the
rallying center for early Scotch Irish in
fiuence in what was then called the West.
Probably Columbia won't get 1T, in spite
of the argument in its favor, and every
body will be sorry, for, as Mr.. Bonner said
Though not about this particular matter)
ssThey're such fine tot of fellows around
Columbia that We hate 10 leave them. :"
Dawn WECHsLEs.