Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania. David Rhind, tutor
of John Rutledge, "an excellent classical scholar, and one of the most
successful of the early instructors of youth in Carolina," was of
Scottish birth. The tutor of Thomas Jefferson was also a Scot. Samuel
Finley (1715-66), born in Armagh of Scots ancestry, S.T.D. of Glasgow
University, 1763, was President of the College of New Jersey, and one
of the ancestors of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the Morse
system of telegraphy. In educational work in the eighteenth century no
name stands higher than that of William Smith (1727-1803), born in
Aberdeen, first Provost of the College of Philadelphia. He was the
introducer of the system of class records now used in all American
universities. Isabella Graham (1742-1814), born in Lanarkshire, ranked
as one of the most successful teachers in New York at the end of the
eighteenth century. James Dunlap (1744-1818), of Scottish descent, was
President of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. William Graham
(1745-99), was first President of Washington College (now Washington
and Lee University). Robert Patterson (1743-1824), a Scot of Ulster,
was Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1810-13), and
Director of the United States Mint in Philadelphia (1805-24). His son,
Robert M. Patterson, succeeded him as Vice-Provost in 1828. Peter
Wilson (1746-1825), born at Ordiquhill, Aberdeenshire, published
several important text-books on Latin and Greek, was Member of the New
Jersey Legislature in 1777, and in 1783 was appointed to revise and
codify the laws of the state of New York. Thomas Craighead
(1750-1825), first President of Davidson Academy (1785-1809),
afterwards the University of Nashville, was great-grandson of Rev.
Robert Craighead who went from Scotland to Donoghmore in Ireland.
Joseph McKeen (1757-1807), first President of Bowdoin College, was of
Ulster Scot origin (1718). John Kemp (1763-1812), born at Auchlossan,
Aberdeenshire, became Professor of Mathematics in Columbia University.
He "had an important influence in moulding the views of De Witt
Clinton on topics of internal improvement and national policy." John
Brown (1763-1842), Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy in the
University of South Carolina, was afterwards third President of the
University of Georgia. Joseph Caldwell (1773-1835) was Founder and
President of the University of North Carolina. Jesse Mercer
(1769-1841), Founder of Merc