The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-01
non and author of the Wealth

Scot. made a worldwide reputation
in the school of logic.
The great historian. Thomas Car
lyle. one of the greatest literary char
acters of his day, was a Scotchrnan,
and his scarcely less renowned sue
cessor, John Ruskin, was of Scottish
ancestry. Lord Byron. himself. claim
ed to be hall a Scot by birth, and
bred a whole one
Sir Thomas b. Macaulay, the great
English historian, who. in order 10
please the fancy Of his new found
friends. said many uncomplimentary
things about the SOtch, was of Scottish
descent himself.
j. NJ. Barrie. the writer OF mimi
table pathos. and Robert Louis Stew
enson, the great novelist of modern
times. were both Of Scottish birth.
Some Of the worlds greatest states
men. and among these many Of the
great premiers Of Great Britain. were
Scotch, beginning with William F..
Gladstone. who was a son of a Scot
tish merchant, though born in. Liver
pool: Lord Rosebery, who followed
Gladstone as premier was a Scotch
man. and SO was Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman, who followed Lord
Rosebery. James Bryce, the dis1in-
guished British diplomat, claims, with
~pardonable pride, that his ancestors
were Ulster Scots.
Sir A. j. Balfour. premier Of Great
Britain. in 1898, who prevented a
combination of European nations
against the United States, in the war
with Spain. was Of Scottish birth.
Some of our greatest financierS and
business men were Scotchmen. The
Bank Of England, the greatest bank
ing institution in the world. was
founded by William Paterson. a
Scotchman. The first bank Of France
owed it's origin to another Scot, named
John Law.
David Livingston, the great explo-
rer. who paved the way for the 1isht
Of civilization to enter darkest Africa.
was a Highlander.
Sir John Macdonald, the greatest
statesman Canada has produced, who
welded Canada into a strong nation,
was. as his name indicates. a Scot
Lord Strathcona, the creator Of the
great Canadian Pacific Railway.
which with bands Of steel
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. was
a native of Scotland.
James Watt. inventor Of the steam
engine. and his c~o-labOrers, George
Stephenson, who perfected the steam
locomotive, and Robert Fulton, who
made the steamboat a success were
all Scotchmen. And so was John L.
MacAdam, the inventor of the Mac
adam road. Alexander Graham Bell,
las ~ VI IN NSAS "oS DOAh ~
/, Edinburgh. and the mother of Thorn
as A. Edison, the wizard Of the electri-
cal world, was a Scotch school teach
3 er. Joseph Henry n Samuel Morse,
: who inbented h telegraph, were Of
; Scottish ancestry, and so was John
Lawson. the author OF the first history
of North Carolina, written in 1890.
Among the distinguished cot in
! our own country may be mentioned
John WitherspOon, a Scotch Presbyte-
-
. college, and a leader in the Continent
3 tai Congress which adopted the Dec
d laration Of Independence. Thomas
Jefferson. the great Democrat and au
thor of the Declaration Of Independ.
: ence. was Of Scottish descent. The
Constitution of the United States, was
: largely drafted by a Scotchman, Johr
Wilson. Three Of the four members
of WashingtOn's first cabinet. were
g lScOtchmen. namely: Hamilton. Knol
y and Randolph.
Alexander Hamilton, the great Fed
e eralist and founder of tho American
banking system. was OF Scottish de
p scent.
/ Among the great railroad builder,
in America may be fOund man!
~Scotchmen. and among these: Joh'
e 6. Kennedy, the Presbyterian elder
y who ~bequeathed thirty million dollar
q to the aus Of education and charity
II The great Pennsylvania Railroad Sys
tenn. the greatest system of railway
1t in the world. Ia been controlled b.
l. such imminent Scottish minds a
Il Thomas A. Scott ]. N. Mccullough
James McCrae, Robert Pitcairn, An
ID drew Carnegie, Frank Thompson, an
re A. J.. Cassett, the latter the projectO
OF the world famous P~ennsylvani
Of tunnels under the Hudson river.
n Cyrus Mccormick. the inventor o
+ the Harvesting Machinery, was a full
blOOded ScOtchman.
at The presidents Of two Of the great
m est banks in Chicago, the two broth
n ere. James b. Forgan, and Daniel r
FOrgan. are natives OF Scotland
e. The greatest iron and steel maker
from Grant and John Campbell t
to ANDREW Carnegie, can boast Of thei
IN Scottish blood. The first printin
mt press was perfected by those sturd
lScOtchmen: Gordon. Campbell an
in Scott. Many Of the great newspape
re men Of America are descended frol
Scottish ancestry, some Of these be
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