34 The Hon. S. S. K?iabe?ishue on The Scotch-Irish in America. 



that his ancestry was English. Three Presidents were of straight 

 Scotch ancestry. General Grant was a descendant from some one 

 of the great septs of the house of Grant. James Monroe was 

 another Scotchman, and so was R. B. Hayes. Two others had 

 Scotch mothers. Two were of Dutch descent from the male line — 

 Van Buren and Roosevelt ; but the latter is descended on his 

 mother's side from the (Scotch) Dumbartonshire family of 

 Bulloch. 



It would take a list as large as the Belfast City Directory to 

 name the men in America noted in politics and in arms who 

 came of Scotch-Irish descent. A few may be mentioned — General 

 Knox, an officer in the Revolution, and the first Secretary of War 

 in Washington's Cabinet ; Wilson and Iredell, associate justices 

 of the first bench of the Supreme Court ; John Rutledge, the 

 second man to be made Chief Justice of that tribunal — the highest 

 court in the United States ; Daniel Webster, of New Hampshire, 

 was of Scotch Irish descent • and Patrick Henry, of Virginia. 



James J. Hill, the great American railway magnate was born in 

 Canada, of Ulster parents. Alexander E. Orr, now head of the 

 New York Life Insurance Company, was born in County Tyrone, 

 and spent his first nineteen years there. Thomas Mellon, a 

 leading financier of Pittsburg, was born in the same county. 

 William H. Maxwell, superintendent of the public schools of New 

 York city, is an Ulsterman. He has under him 16,000 teachers 

 and more than half a million of pupils. That he has held with 

 credit a position demanding superb executive ability for eight 

 years is a telling tribute to the sterling qualities of the Scotch- 

 Irish. 



In brief, wherever push and energy, tenacity of purpose and 

 similar qualities are demanded to assure success, the men of 

 Scotch- Irish descent have always been to the fore in the United 

 States. 



