rentage. Peter Douglas Gorrie
(1813-84), clergyman, and historian of the Methodist Church in the
United States, was born in Glasgow. John McClintock (1814-70), of Drew
Theological Seminary and leading editor of McClintock and Strong's
"Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature,"
was of Scottish descent. Robert Stuart MacArthur, born in Canada, in
1841, of Scots parentage, Minister of Calvary Baptist Church, New
York, has published many volumes of sermons, essays, and narratives of
travel. Robert Mackenzie (b. 1845), President of San Francisco
Theological Seminary, was born in Cromarty. Robert McIntyre (b. 1851),
Methodist Episcopal Bishop of California, was born in Selkirk. Joseph
Plumb Cochran, Medical Missionary to Persia, the "Hakim Sahib" of the
natives, was grandson of a Scot. John Alexander Dowie (1848-1907),
founder of the so-called "Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in
Zion," was born in Edinburgh. Mary M. Baker Glover Eddy (1821-1910),
claimed partly Scots descent (from MacNeils of Barra).
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 (1759-18
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