James Hervey Hyslop (b. 1854), philosopher,
psychologist, and educator, was grandson of George Hyslop of
Roxburghshire. He devoted many years to psychical research. James
Geddes (b. 1858), philologist and Professor of Romance Languages in
Boston University, is of Scottish parentage. Andrew Armstrong
Kincannon (1859-1917), Chancellor of the University of Mississippi,
was descendant of James Kincannon who came from Scotland c. 1720.
Edwin Boone Craighead (b. 1861), Professor of Greek at Wofford
College, South Carolina, and afterwards third President of Tulane
University, is of Scottish descent. John Huston Finley (b. 1863),
President of the College of the City of New York and New York State
Commissioner of Education, is a descendant of a brother of Samuel
Finley, President of Princeton College. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin,
born in 1861, Professor of American History in the University of
Michigan, is the son of a Peebles lawyer. Duncan Black Macdonald,
Professor of Semitic Languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, was
born in Glasgow in 1863. Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1870-1920),
seventh President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was born
in Lindean, Selkirkshire. George Hutcheson Denny (b. 1870), Professor
of Latin in Washington and Lee University, and later President of the
same institution, and James Gray McAllister (b. 1872), sixteenth
President of Hampden-Sidney College, are both of Scottish descent.
William Allan Neilson, born in Doune, Perthshire, was Professor of
English in Harvard University (1906-17), and is now President of Smith
College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
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