(1770-1829), fourth President of Dickinson College and for several
years Foreign Secretary of the American Bible Society, was the son of
Dr. John Mason, born in Linlithgow. Both were ministers of the
Associate Church in New York. Archibald Alexander (1772-1851), fourth
President of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia (1796-1806), and
Professor in Princeton Theological Seminary (1812-51), was of Scottish
parentage. James Waddell Alexander (1804-59), Professor of Rhetoric
and Belles-Lettres at Princeton (1833-44) and of Ecclesiastical
History and Church Government in Princeton Theological Seminary
(1844-51) was his son. Joseph Addison Alexander (1809-60), Orientalist
and Biblical critic, was another son of Archibald Alexander. Moses
Waddell (1770-1840), born in Iredell county, North Carolina, of
Scottish parentage, fifth President of the University of Georgia, was
one of the foremost teachers of his day. Samuel Brown Wylie
(1773-1852), Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1834-45),
was born in Antrim of Scottish parents and educated in Glasgow. Joseph
McKean (1776-1818), Boyleston Professor of Rhetoric in Harvard
University (1809-18) was of Scottish parentage. Charles Macalister
(1798-1873), born in Philadelphia of Scottish parentage, intimate
friend of five Presidents, Government Director of the United States
Bank, was founder of Macalister College, Minneapolis. John Dempster
(1794-1863), President of the Illinois Wesleyan University, was of
Scottish parentage. Daniel Curry (1809-87) was President of De Pauw
University (1855-59). Andrew Harvie, born in Scotland before 1810,
became Principal of the Tecumseh branch of the State University of
Michigan (1839-40), Master of Chancery (1848), State Senator
(1850-51). Described as a "man of ability and thorough culture."
Nathaniel Macon Crawford (1811-71), fourth President of Mercer
University and afterwards President of Georgetown College, Kentucky,
was a son of William H. Crawford the statesman. John Forsyth
(1811-86), clergyman, author, and Professor of Latin in Rutgers
College, was of Scottish parentage, and received his education in
Edinburgh and Glasgow. James McCosh (1811-94), born at Carskeoch,
Ayrshire, was President of Princeton University from 1868 to 1888, and
was the author of many works on philosophy. John Fries Frazer
(1812-72), Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1858-68),
was of Scottish ancestry. Louis Agassiz described him as "the first of
American physicists of his time." James Sidney Rollins (1812-88), of
Ulster Scot origin, for his efforts on behalf of education in his
state was declared by the Curators of the University of Missouri to
have won the honorable title of "Pater Universitatis Missouriensis."
Daniel Kirkwood (1814-95), mathematician and educator, grandson of
Robert Kirkwood who came from Scotland c. 1731, was Professor of
Mathematics at Indiana University (1856-86). David Chassel, "of Scotch
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