educational positions and was afterwards President
of North Georgia Agricultural College. George
Edwin Maclean (b. 1850), a distinguished English and
Anglo-Saxon scholar, was fifth Chancellor of the University
of Nebraska. William Milligan Sloan (b. 1850),
author, educator, and Professor of History in Columbia
University, is descended from William Sloane, a native
of Ayr, who settled here in the beginning of the nineteenth
century. James Cameron Mackenzie (b. 1852), born
in Aberdeen, is founder of the Mackenzie School for
Boys at Dobbs Ferry (1901) and a frequent contributor
to educational publications. James Hervey Hyslop
(b. 1854), philosopher, psychologist, and educator,
was grandson of George Hyslop of Roxburghshire.
He devoted many years to psychical research. James
Geddes (b. 1858), philologist and Professor of Romance
Languages in Boston University, is of Scottish parentage.
Andrew Armstrong Kincannon (1859-1917), Chancellor
of the University of Mississippi, was descendant of
James Kincannon who came from Scotland c. 1720.
Edwin Boone Craighead (b. 1861), Professor of Greek
at Wofford College, South Carolina, and afterwards
third President of Tulane University, is of Scottish
descent. John Huston Finley (b. 1863), President
of the College of the City of New York and New York
State Commissioner of Education, is a descendant of
a brother of Samuel Finley, President of Princeton
College. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, born in
1861, Professor of American History in the University
of Michigan, is the son of a Peebles lawyer.
Duncan Black Macdonald, Professor of Semitic Languages
at Hartford Theological Seminary, was born in Glasgow
in 1863. Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1870-1920),
seventh President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
was born in Lindean, Selkirkshire. George Hutcheson
Denny (b. 1870), Professor of Latin in Washington
and Lee University, and later President of the same
institution, and James Gray McAllister (b. 1872), sixteenth
President of Hampden-Sidney College, are both of Scottish
descent. William Allan Neilson, born in Doune,
Perthshire, was Professor of English in Harvard University
(1906-17), and is now President of Smith College,
Northampton, Massachusetts. William Douglas Mackenzie,
President of Hartford Theological Seminary Foundation,
is a son of John Mackenzie of Knockando, Morayshire,
and was born in Fauresmith, South Africa, in 1859.
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.