William
Chapman Ralston (1826-75), developer of California, was of Scottish
ancestry. William Barr (1827-1908), merchant and philanthropist,
founder of one of the largest dry goods firms in the Middle West, was
born in Lanark. Matthew Baird (1817-77), born in Londonderry of Ulster
Scot parentage, a partner in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in 1865
became sole proprietor besides being a director in several other
important corporations. James Douglas Reid (1819-1901), born in
Edinburgh, superintended the construction of many of the most
important telegraph lines in the United States and founded and edited
the "National Telegraph Review." Theodore Irwin (b. 1827), grain
merchant, manufacturer, and bibliophile; and Edward Henry Kellogg (b.
1828), manufacturer of lubricating oils, were of Scottish descent.
James Abercrombie Burden (b. 1833), ironmaster and manufacturer, was
son of the great Scottish inventor, Henry Burden. William Sloane (d.
1879), came to the United States in 1834 and established the great
carpet firm of William Sloane and Sons. The development of the tobacco
industry which so enriched Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth
century, drew large numbers of Scots to Virginia as merchants and
manufacturers, and, says Slaughter, "it is worthy of note that Scotch
families such as the Dunlops, Tennants, Magills, Camerons, etc., are
to this day (1879) leaders of the tobacco trade of Petersburg, which
has grown so great as to swallow up her sisters, Blandford and
Pocahontas, which were merged in one corporation in 1784.
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