Abram Newkirk
Littlejohn (1824-91), first Bishop of Long Island, was a descendant of
Hugh Littlejohn of Perthshire. James Steptoe Johnston (b. 1843),
second Bishop of western Texas, was of Scottish descent; and Hugh
Miller Thompson (1830-1902), second Bishop of Mississippi, was an
Ulster Scot, born in Londonderry.
Richard Gilmour (1824-91), second Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese
of Cleveland (1872-91), born in Glasgow, Scotland, of Presbyterian
parents, was noted for his zeal in behalf of Catholic education.
Robert Seton (b. 1839), a descendent of the Setons of Winton, was
created Archbishop of Heliopolis in 1903. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
(1774-1821), of the same family, was founder of the Roman Catholic
Order of Sisters of Charity (1809), of which she was the first Mother
Superior.
John McLean (1759-1823), merchant and philanthropist, was founder of
McLean Asylum for Insane at Somerville, Massachusetts. Robert Rantoul
(1778-1848), of Scottish parentage, worked hard to ameliorate the
criminal legislation of the country, and took part in establishing a
charity school at Beverly, Massachusetts, which was said to be the
first Sunday School in America. Mrs. Graham, a Scotswoman, celebrated
in New York city for her benevolence and charity, founded a Sunday
School in New York for young women in 1792. The movement however
languished for some years until her daughter, Mrs. Bethune, also born
in Scotland, organized the Female Sabbath School Union of New York in
1816.
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