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

SCOTS IN THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL WELFARE

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