James Blair (b. 1807), brother of John Inslee Blair, was largely
identified with the development of banks and railroads in
Pennsylvania. George Smith (1808-99), born in Aberdeenshire, founded
the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company (1839) and was later a
prominent banker in Georgia. Alexander Mitchell (1817-87), financier,
railroad builder, and one of the Commissioners of Public Debt of
Milwaukee, was born near Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Brown Brothers, bankers
in New York, was founded by Alexander Brown (1764-1834) who was born
in Ballymena of Ulster Scot parentage. George Bain (1836-91),
merchant, banker, and director in many railroads, banks, and insurance
companies, was born in Stirling, Scotland. Robert Craig Chambers (b.
1831), miner, financier, and State Senator of Utah, was of Scottish
descent. John Aikman Stewart (b. 1822), President of the United States
Trust Company and Assistant Treasurer of the United States, was born
in New York city, son of a native of Stornoway, Hebrides. Alonzo
Barton Hepburn (b. 1847), descendant of Patrick Hepburn who came from
Scotland in 1736, President of the Chase National Bank, a
distinguished New York banker, has written much on financial subjects.
Thomas William Lamont (b. 1870), whose forefather came from
Argyllshire, is a member of the firm of J.P. Morgan & Co., and
prominent in international finance. Walter Edwin Frew, President of
the Corn Exchange Bank, New York, and President of the New York
Clearing House is of Scottish parentage. He was a pioneer of the
branch banking system in New York. James Berwick Forgan, born in St.
Andrews, in 1852, President of the First National Bank of Chicago, is
a pillar of finance. Andrew Glassell (1827-1901), descendant of a
Dumfriesshire emigrant of 1756, was a prominent lawyer and banker in
Los Angeles. James Alexander Linen (b. 1840), President of the First
National Bank of Scranton, was of Scottish parentage. George Rutledge
Gibson (b. 1853), of Scottish descent, has written largely on
questions of foreign finance. John Hall McClement (b. 1862), railroad
and financial expert, is of Scottish parentage. Duncan MacInnes, born
at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, has been Chief Accountant of the City of
New York for many years, and is one of the best equipped men in
municipal finance in America. Robert Graham Dun (1826-1900),
mercantile credit expert, was grandson of Rev. James Dun, minister in
Glasgow, who emigrated to Virginia, c. 1815.
Robert Burns Beath (1839-1914), President of the United Firemens'
Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and author of the "History of the
Grand Army of the Republic" (1888), was of Scots parentage. William C.
Alexander (1806-74), President of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company, was second son of Dr. Archibald Alexander of Princeton. His
son James Waddell Alexander (1839-1915), was also President of the
same Company. John Augustine McCall (1849-1906), President of the New
York Life Insurance Company, was of Ulster Scot descent.
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