Other journalists who may be mentioned are William Cauldwell
(b. 1824) of New York, of Scottish parentage on both sides; George
Dawson (1813-83) of Albany, born in Falkirk, Scotland; William Wiston
Seaton (1785-1866) of Washington, D.C., a Regent of the Smithsonian
Institution; and George Horace Lorimer (b. 1867), journalist and
author of "Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son" (1902), etc.
John J. McElhone (1832-90), famous as a stenographer and chief
Official Reporter of the House of Representatives, was of Scottish
ancestry.
Thomas Dobson, publisher of the first American edition of the
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_ (1791), was a Scot who gave a great impulse
to printing in the United States. Robert Carter (1807-89), publisher
and founder of the house of Robert Carter and Brothers, so long and
honorably known in New York city, was born in Earlston, Berwickshire.
Henry Ivison (1808-84), born in Glasgow, became a prominent publisher
in New York. His son, David Brinkerhoff Ivison, born in 1835, was also
a prominent publisher and founder of the American Book Company. John
Wilson (1802-68), born in Glasgow, was founder of the famous printing
firm of John Wilson and Son of Cambridge, Massachusetts, now Harvard
University Press. George Munro (1825-96), publisher of the _Seaside
Library, Fireside Companion_, etc., was of Scottish descent. In the
course of his life he gave away half a million dollars for educational
purposes. Whatever may be thought of his appropriating the works of
British authors without compensation it cannot be denied that he did a
great deal to raise the literary taste among the poorer classes in
this country.
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