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Daniel Kirkwood (1814-95), mathematician and educator, grandson of
Robert Kirkwood who came from Scotland c. 1731, was Professor of
Mathematics at Indiana University (1856-86). David Chassel, "of Scotch
descent and Scotch characteristics," was tutor to Professor James
Hadley, America's greatest Greek scholar. Joshua Hall McIlvaine
(1815-97), a distinguished comparative philologist, was President of
Evelyn College, Princeton. Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905), the
"Nestor of elocutionary science," inventor of the method of phonetic
notation of "visible speech," was born in Edinburgh. Alexander Martin
(1822-93), sixth President of De Pauw University, was born in Nairn,
Scotland. John Fraser (c. 1823-1878), second Chancellor of the
University of Arkansas, was born in Cromarty, Scotland. Malcolm
MacVicar, born in Argyllshire in 1829, was famous as an educator,
writer of text-books, and inventor of many devices to illustrate
principles in arithmetic, astronomy and geography. John Maclean
(1798-1886), tenth President of Princeton University, was of Scottish
parentage. Matthew Henry Buckham (b. 1832), eleventh President of the
University of Vermont, was born in England of Scottish parentage.
James Kennedy Patterson (b. 1833), first President of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Kentucky (1880-1901), was born in Glasgow.
David French Boyd (1834-99), second President of Louisiana State
University, and his brother, Thomas Duckett Boyd, also a University
President, were descended from John Boyd of Ayrshire, who emigrated to
Maryland in 1633.
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