819-29). Edward
Duffield Ingraham (1793-1854), of Scottish descent, was at the head of
the legal profession of his time in Philadelphia. He was also an
eminent bibliophile, possessing a library of thirty thousand volumes.
Robert Rantoul (1805-52), of Scots ancestry, was member of the first
Commission to Revise the Laws of Massachusetts, Member of the first
Massachusetts Board of Education, "an honor intended to be conferred
only on such as were well qualified by their literary acquisitions to
discharge its responsible duties." He was also a prominent agitator
against the fugitive slave law, and organizer and corporator of the
Illinois Central Railroad, the first transcontinental line projected.
John Jay McGilvra (1827-1903), of Scots parentage, took part in many
prominent enterprises for the public benefit in Washington State, and
forced the Northern Pacific Railroad to restore five million acres to
public domain. Lawrence Maxwell, born in Glasgow in 1853, was
Solicitor-General of the United States (1893-95), and also held many
other important positions. David Robert Barclay, author of the well
known "Barclay's Digest" of the decisions of the Supreme Court (St.
Louis, 1868) was of Scots descent. William Birch Rankine (1858-1905)
of Scots parentage, took up the work of developing Niagara power and
founded the Niagara Falls Power Company (1886). Thomas M. Logan (b.
1840), lawyer, soldier, and railroad officer was a descendant of Logan
of Restalrig. David Clarence Gibboney (b. 1869), Special Counsel for
the Pure Food Commission in 1906, grandson of a Scot, has also made a
reputation for prosecution of gamblers, dive-keepers, illicit liquor
dealers, etc., in Philadelphia.

SCOTS IN ART, ARCHITECTURE, ETC.

John Smibert (c. 1684-1751), born in Edinburgh, came to America in
1728 and settled in Boston, where he met success as a portrait
painter. He was the first painter of merit in the colonies, and
painted portraits of many of the eminent magistrates and divines of
New England and New York between 1725 and 1751, the year of his death.
His work had much influence on the American artist, John Singleton
Copley. Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755-1828), born in Rhode Island of
Scottish parents, was the foremost American portrait painter of his
day. He painted several portraits of Washington, and also portraits of
Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Justice
Story, Fisher Ames, John Jacob Astor and oth