nburgh University. In 1822 went from Philadelphia to
Woodford County, Kentucky, where his knowledge of chemistry enabled
him vastly to improve the methods of distilling whiskey, and he became
the founder of the great distilling industry of that state. Walter
Callender, born in Stirling in 1834, was founder of the firm of
Callender, McAuslan, and Troup, of Providence. E.J. Lindsay, born in
Dundee in 1838, was manufacturer of agricultural implements in
Wisconsin. Alexander Cochrane, born at Barrhead in 1840, was a great
chemical manufacturer. Edwin Allen Cruikshank, born in 1843 of
Scottish ancestry, was a real estate operator and one of the founders
of the Real Estate Exchange in 1883. George Harrison Barbour, born in
1843 of Scottish parentage, was Vice-President and General Manager of
the Michigan Stove Company, the largest establishment of the kind in
the world. William Marshall, born in Leith in 1848, was founder of the
Anglo-American Varnish Company (1890). Robert Means Thompson, born in
1849 of Scottish ancestry, was President of the Orford Copper Company,
one of the largest producers of nickel in the world. William James
Hogg (b. 1851), carpet manufacturer in Worcester and Auburn,
Massachusetts; and Francis Thomas Fletcher Lovejoy, Secretary of the
Carnegie Steel Company were of Scottish descent. William Howe McElwain
(b. 1867), shoe manufacturer in New England, is of Argyllshire
descent; and the Armours of Chicago, descended from James Armour, who
came from Ulster c. 1750, claim Scottish ancestry. William Barbour
(b. 1847), thread manufacturer, was grandson of a Scot who moved from
Paisley, Scotland, to Lisburn, Ireland, in 1768, and in 1784
established what is now the oldest linen thread manufacturing
establishment in the world. George A. Clark (1824-73), born in
Paisley, established the thread mills at Newark, New Jersey, the
business of which was carried on by his brother William (b. 1841), who
came to the United States in 1860. The great Coates Thread Mills at
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, are a branch of the firm of J. and J. Coates
of Paisley. Hugh Chalmers (b. 1873), President of the Chalmers Motor
Company, of Detroit, is descended from Thomas Chalmers who came from
Scotland early in the nineteenth century. Ramsey Crooks (1786-1859),
fur trader, born in Greenock, Scotland; came to America and settled in
Wisconsin. In 1809, he entered the service of John Jacob Astor and
made, with Donald Mackenzie and Robert Stua