William Douglas Mackenzie,
President of Hartford Theological Seminary Foundation, is a son of
John Mackenzie of Knockando, Morayshire, and was born in Fauresmith,
South Africa, in 1859.
As librarians may legitimately be included under the head of
educators, the following individuals may be mentioned: John Forbes
(1771-1824), born in Scotland, was Librarian of the New York Society
Library. His son, Philip Jones Forbes (1807-77), was Librarian of the
same institution from 1828 to 1855, and his son, John born in 1846,
afterwards became Librarian there. Morris Robeson Hamilton (b. 1820),
State Librarian of New Jersey, was descendant of John Hamilton, acting
Governor of New Jersey (d. 1746). John Cochrane Wilson (1828-1905),
Librarian of the Law Library of the Equitable Life Assurance Company.
Miss Catherine Wolf Bruce established a Free Circulating Library in
Forty-second Street in memory of her father, George Bruce the
type-founder, in 1888. It is now a branch of the New York Public
Library.
SCOTS IN LITERATURE
John Lawson (c. 1658-1711), Surveyor-General of North Carolina, a
native of Aberdeen, published "A New Voyage to Carolina," in 1709,
reprinted 1714, 1718, 1737, 1860, and twice translated into German
(1712, 1722). Lawson was cruelly murdered by the Tuscaroras. Hugh
Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816), born near Campbeltown, Argyllshire,
Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was author of a political
satire, "Modern Chivalry," a work now extremely rare.
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