The Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, founded in 1756, is a charitable organization focused on helping Scots in the New York community.
History
editThe Society is led by a President, First Vice President, Second Vice President and Managers.[1]
List of presidents
editPortrait | No. | Named individual | Start date | End date | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Philip Livingston | 1756 | 1757 | Merchant and statesman.[1] | |
2 | Adam Thomson | 1757 | 1758 | A physician.[1][2] | |
3 | John Morin Scott | 1758 | 1759 | 1st Secretary of State of New York.[1] | |
4 | Andrew Barclay | 1759 | 1761 | Uncle of Thomas Henry Barclay.[1] | |
5 | William Alexander | 1761 | 1764 | A Major General during the Revolution.[1] | |
6 | Alexander Colden | 1764 | 1766 | Son of Cadwallader Colden.[1] | |
7 | Walter Rutherfurd | 1766 | 1767 | Also served from 1792-1798.[1] | |
8 | Peter Middleton | 1767 | 1770 | A physician.[1] | |
9 | John Murray | 1770 | 1771 | Governor of the Province of New York.[1] | |
10 | John Watts | 1771 | 1772 | [1] | |
11 | William McAdam | 1772 | 1773 | [1] | |
12 | Thomas Drummond | 1773 | 1774 | Older brother of James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth.[1] | |
13 | David Johnston | 1774 | 1785 | Served two terms: 1774-75 and 1784-85.[a][1] | |
14 | Robert R. Livingston | 1785 | 1792 | [1] | |
15 | Walter Rutherfurd | 1792 | 1798 | Also the 7th President.[1] | |
16 | Robert Lenox | 1798 | 1814 | Longest serving president and father of James Lenox[1] | |
17 | James Tillary | 1814 | 1818 | A physician.[1] | |
18 | Archibald Gracie | 1818 | 1823 | [1] | |
19 | Robert Halliday | 1823 | 1828 | [1] | |
20 | John Graham | 1828 | 1831 | [1] | |
21 | John Johnston | 1831 | 1832 | [1] | |
22 | David Hadden | 1832 | 1835 | [1] | |
23 | Hugh Maxwell | 1835 | 1837 | Collector of the Port of New York.[1] | |
24 | David Hadden | 1837 | 1840 | Also 21st president.[1] | |
25 | David S. Kennedy | 1840 | 1842 | [1] | |
26 | Richard Irvin | 1842 | 1851 | [1] | |
27 | Adam Norrie | 1851 | 1862 | [1] | |
28 | Richard Irvin | 1862 | 1864 | Also 24th president.[1] | |
29 | Robert Gordon | 1864 | 1865 | [1] | |
30 | William Wood | 1865 | 1867 | [1] | |
31 | John Taylor Johnston | 1867 | 1869 | President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.[1] | |
32 | Robert Gordon | 1869 | 1872 | Also the 26th president.[1] | |
33 | James Moir | 1872 | 1873 | [1] | |
34 | Robert Gordon | 1873 | 1876 | Also the 26th president.[1] | |
35 | James Brand | 1876 | 1879 | [1] | |
36 | John Stewart Kennedy | 1879 | 1882 | Financier and philanthropist.[1] | |
37 | Walter Watson | 1882 | 1884 | [1] | |
38 | John Stewart Kennedy | 1884 | 1887 | Also the 31st president.[1] | |
39 | Bryce Gray | 1887 | 1889 | [1] | |
40 | John Sloane | 1889 | 1893 | [1] | |
41 | George Austin Morrison | 1893 | 1895 | [1] | |
42 | J. Kennedy Tod | 1895 | 1897 | [1] | |
43 | William Lyall | 1897 | 1898 | [1] | |
44 | John Reid | 1898 | 1899 | [1] | |
45 | Andrew Carnegie | 1899 | 1902 | [1] | |
46 | W. Butler Duncan | 1902 | 1906 | [1] | |
47 | Robert Frater Munro | 1907 | 1908 | [3][4] | |
48 | Alonzo Barton Hepburn | 1910 | 1911 | Also Comptroller of the Currency.[3][5] | |
49 | George A. Morrison Jr. | 1912 | 1914 | Son of the 41st president.[3][6] | |
50 | William Sloane | 1915 | 1917 | [3] | |
51 | Alexander C. Humphreys | 1918 | 1920 | President of Stevens Institute of Technology[3][7] | |
52 | Alexander Walker | 1921 | 1921 | A banker.[3][8][9] | |
53 | Alexander B. Halliday | 1922 | 1923 | Son-in-law of 38th president.[3] | |
54 | John Sloane Jr. | 1924 | 1925 | [3] | |
55 | Henry Moir | 1926 | 1927 | President of the United States Life Insurance Company[3][10] | |
56 | Charles P. McClelland | 1928 | 1929 | Chief Justice of the United States Customs Court[3][11] | |
57 | George McGeachin | 1930 | 1931 | Mayor of Larchmont, New York[3][12] | |
58 | James Sears McCulloh | 1932 | 1934 | President of New York Telephone Company.[3][13] | |
59 | Andrew Baxter | 1935 | 1936 | [3][14] | |
60 | Maitland Dwight | 1937 | 1938 | A lawyer[3][15] | |
61 | Arthur Hunter | 1938 | 1940 | An actuary[3][16] | |
62 | William W. Peake | 1941 | 1942 | A stockbroker[3][17] | |
63 | Henry Jessup Cochran | 1943 | 1944 | President of the Bankers Trust[3][18] | |
64 | Errol Kerr | 1945 | 1942 | An accountant[3][19] | |
65 | Benjamin P. Watson | 1946 | 1947 | A physician[3] | |
66 | Ward Melville | 1948 | 1949 | His father was a nephew of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward.[3][20] | |
67 | Duncan M. Spencer | 1950 | 1951 | Chairman of the Fiduciary Trust Company.[3][21] | |
68 | James A. Keillor | 1952 | 1953 | Vice-president of B. Altman & Co.[3][22] | |
69 | John M. MacGregor | 1954 | 1955 | [3] | |
70 | Thomas P. Haig | 1956 | 1957 | A minister[3] | |
71 | David Bowie McVean | 1958 | 1959 | President of the Bay Ridge Savings Bank[3][23] | |
72 | Hugh Seel MacLean | 1960 | 1961 | Associated with Imperial Chemical Industries.[3][24] | |
73 | Allan C. George | 1962 | 1963 | An accountant[3][25] | |
74 | Henry J. Cochran Jr. | 1964 | 1965 | Son of the 63rd president[3] | |
75 | Everett M. Clark | 1966 | 1967 | [3] | |
76 | Nestor J. MacDonald | 1968 | 1969 | President of Thomas & Betts[3][26] | |
77 | J. Sinclair Armstrong | 1970 | 1971 | Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[3][27] | |
78 | Donald Gregg | 1971 | 1973 | President of Faber, Coe & Gregg.[3] | |
79 | David P. H. Watson | 1973 | 1975 | Son of the 65th President.[3][28] | |
80 | Gordon L. Barclay | 1975 | 1977 | Managing director of the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene[3][29] | |
81 | Douglas Lachlan Maclean | 1978 | 1979 | A minister.[3] | |
82 | John A. Fraser | 1979 | 1981 | [3] | |
83 | John L. Coulson | 1981 | 1982 | [3] | |
84 | Robert Campbell Jr. | 1983 | 1985 | [3] | |
85 | David Graham Black Jr. | 1985 | 1987 | [3] | |
86 | Robert F. Colquhoun | 1987 | 1989 | Of Clan Colquhoun.[3] | |
87 | Geoffrey Gregg | 1989 | 1991 | [3] | |
88 | Steven M. Draper | 1991 | 1993 | [3] | |
89 | Robert Coe | 1993 | 1995 | [3] | |
90 | Victor E. Stewart | 1995 | 1997 | [3] | |
91 | Sean Stewart Macpherson | 1997 | 1999 | [3] | |
92 | Roderick Errol Kerr Jr. | 1999 | 2001 | [3] | |
93 | John Mauk Hilliard | 2001 | 2003 | [3] | |
94 | Edward J. Collins Jr. | 2003 | 2005 | [3] | |
95 | Duncan Archibald Bruce | 2005 | 2007 | [3] | |
96 | Alfred G. Bisset | 2007 | 2009 | ||
97 | Robert W. Ker III | 2009 | 2011 | ||
98 | William T. Maitland | 2011 | 2012 | ||
99 | Samuel F. Abernethy Esq | 2012 | 2014 | ||
100 | Thomas D. Halket | 2014 | 2016 | ||
101 | James Heggie III | 2016 | 2018 | ||
102 | Donald Sinclair Whamond Jr. | 2018 | 2020 | ||
103 | David M. Murphy | 2020 | 2022 | ||
104 | Richard Porter | 2022 |
References
edit- Notes
- ^ The history of the Society from 1774 to 1784, during the Revolutionary War, remains a blank.[1]
- Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av Morrison, George Austin (1906). History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906. New York: Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York at Press of the Evening Post Job Printing Office. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ Kelly, Howard Atwood (1920). A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons from 1610 to 1910. W.B. Saunders Company. pp. 1142–1143. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Whatley, Harlan Douglas; Bruce, Duncan A.; Taylor, Randall Lenox (2008). Two Hundred Fifty Years: The History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-2006. Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. ISBN 978-0615287515. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ "R.F. MUNARO DIES OF HEART DISEASE; Secretary of British Empire Chamber of Commerce in the United States. HE WAS SENT HERE IN 1882 First Associated With Queen and Crescent Railroad--Helped Organ-. ize Cotton Oil Firm" (PDF). The New York Times. 29 August 1930. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "A. BARTON HEPBURN DIES FROM SHOCK; Banker, 75, Unable to Withstand Injuries Received When Hit by Fifth Avenue Bus.LONG CHASE NATIONAL HEAD Lawyer and Teacher, His Benefactions of $3,000,000 Include $2,000,000 to Colleges and Libraries. Mourned in Financial District. Descended from Noted Scotch Family. Turns from Law to Lumber. Becomes Head of Chase National" (PDF). The New York Times. 26 January 1922. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Died" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 December 1916. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "DR. A. C. HUMPHREYS, EDUCATOR, DIES AT 76; President of Stevens Institute for 25 Years -- Noted Water Gas Engineer, AMERICAN ARTISTS' FRIEND Began Work at 14 and Won a College Education While Earning a Salary" (PDF). The New York Times. 15 August 1927. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Taylor, William A. (19 February 1934). "The Late Alexander Walker". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "ALEXANDER WALKER RITES.; Dr. A. E. Keigwin Eulogizes the Former Banker at Funeral" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 February 1934. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (10 June 1937). "HENRY MOIR DEAD; INSURANCE LEADER; Finance Committee Chairman and Long the President of United States Life" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "C. P. M'CLELLAND, RETIRED U. S. JUDGE Former Chief of the Customs Court Dies—Had Served in State Legislature" (PDF). The New York Times. 7 June 1944. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "GEORGE M'GEACHIN, A TEXTILE LEADER Upholstery Firm's President Dies at Age of 78—Ex-Head of Larchmont Village" (PDF). The New York Times. 4 May 1949. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (6 July 1957). "JAMES M'CULLOH OF BELL SYSTEM; Ex-President and Chairman of New York Telephone Co. Dies--Rye Civic Leader" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Andrew Baxter, 69, Headed Paint Firm" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 January 1959. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (23 May 1938). "MAITLAND DWIGHT; Head of St. Andrew's Society Member of Law Firm Here". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "ARTHUR HUNTER, ACTUARY, IS DEAD; Retired Aide of New York Life Also Served U.S." (PDF). The New York Times. 29 January 1964. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (13 November 1951). "WILLIAM W. PEAKE, RETIRED BROKER, 73; Ex-Partner in Pell, Peake & Co. Dies--Served Association of Stock Exchange Firms" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "FRANKLIN SAVINGS PICKS NEW HEAD; H. J. Cochran, Bankers Trust, to Succeed J. R. Trowbridge, Who Will Retire" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 June 1938. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "ERROL KERR, LONG IN ACCOUNTING, 73; Senior Partner in Firm Here Dies in Hospital--Devised System for Hotels, Clubs" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 April 1951. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Sloane, Leonard (6 June 1977). "Ward Melville, 90, Shoe Magnate, dies" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Duncan Spencer, Officer Of Fiduciary Trust Co" (PDF). The New York Times. 15 November 1979. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "James Archibald Keillor, Altman's Vice Presidents" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 September 1975. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "DAVID B. M'VEAN, '56, A BROOKLYN BANKER" (PDF). The New York Times. 21 December 1959. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Mrs. Grace Sewell Weds in New York". The Miami News. 25 March 1932. p. 9. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Allan C. George, Accountant, Dies" (PDF). The New York Times. 14 March 1973. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Nestor MacDonald, 95, Electronics Executive". The New York Times. 19 October 1991. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Martin, Douglas (9 November 2000). "J. Sinclair Armstrong, S.E.C. Chief, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ The Ridgefield Press (11 June 2012). "David P. H. Watson". The Ridgefield Press. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Mrs. Gordon Barclay" (PDF). The New York Times. 26 November 1974. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
External links
edit- History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906, by George Austin Morrison.
- Scots and Scots Descendant in America by D. MacDougall, 1917.
- Official website