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He studied his profession in England with Elmes, an eminent writer upon architecture, and in 1815, by invitation of an uncle, then Minister to the Czar Alexander, he entered the Russian Imperial Corps of Engineers, but, meeting there Admiral Sonntag, an American, then in the Russian service, Mr. Haviland was induced to emigrate to the United States, reaching Philadelphia in September, 1816. He soon became one of the leading architects in the United States. He introduced the radiating form of prison construction, which he first applied to the Pittsburgh, Penna., Penitentiary. Later Mr. Haviland designed the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia, which became the model for all subsequent buildings of like nature. His plans were highly commended by commissioners from England, France, Russia, and Prussia, deputed by their governments to examine structures which were attracting the attention of the civilized world.
Among the large number of public buildings constructed from his plans were the Hall of Justice, New York City; United States Naval Asylum at Norfolk, Va .; State Peni- tentiaries for New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Missouri; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Broad and Spruce Streets ; United States Mint, Chestnut Street near Broad, Philadelphia ; State Insane Asylum, Harrisburg, Pa., and many churches and private residences in Philadelphia and other cities.
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One of the notable buildings in its time, in Philadelphia, of which Mr. Haviland was the architect, was the " Arcade," located on the north side of Chestnut Street near Seventh. It was two stories in height, with a marble front, and was used on both the first and second floors by a variety of stores. A restaurant in the basement was long kept by David Gibb (member 1836), noted for years as a house of call for Scotchmen. Mr. Haviland had joined with Peter A. Browne and others in the building, on which they expended over $170,000, but it did not prove a financial success.
The property in 1863 was bought by David Jayne and was then replaced by Jayne's Hall and store-rooms.
The St. Andrew's Society, at a special meeting held March 30, 1852, adopted the following :
Resolved, That The St. Andrew's Society have suffered a severe loss in the death of their brother, the late John Haviland of this city, a valued member of their association and of this community, a gentle- man of the highest professional distinction as an accomplished artist, of elegant and cultivated taste, of large attainments in science and elegant literature, and of kind and benevolent disposition. This city and many other parts of our country will long exhibit enduring monu- ments of his skill as an accomplished architect, whilst the memories of his virtues in social life will continue to be cherished by his brethren of The St. Andrew's Society and his fellow citizens of Philadelphia.
JOHN K. MITCHELL,
President.
GEORGE YOUNG, Secretary.
ROBERT HENDERSON, member 1786. Mr. Henderson came from Fordel, near Edinburgh, Scotland, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, located in Philadelphia, and there later entered into the shipping business. On January 23, 1800, he married Sarah, a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Jones, a noted Baptist clergyman who ministered to the First Baptist Church in Dublin Town- ship and other Baptist churches in the northern part of Philadelphia County, for over fifty years. Mr. Jones served during the War of the Revolution as Chaplain, Sec- ond Regiment of Foot. Mr. Henderson died at Saratoga
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Springs, New York, whence he had gone for his health, January, 1802, and three months later his son and only child, Samuel J. Henderson (member, 1841), was born at "Lynganoir," the family country-seat near Bustleton, Philadelphia.
SAMUEL JONES HENDERSON, member 1841, the son of Robert Henderson, noted above, was born at his father's place, "Lynganoir," near Bustleton, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1802. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated and received the degree of A.M. and was later admitted to the bar and practised law in Philadelphia until his death in 1850.
He was interested in military affairs, and was com- missioned major and later colonel in the State Militia. He married Miss Mary Potts Wright, a daughter of Joshua Wright, of Trenton, New Jersey. He was survived by his widow and four children, Robert, Laura (who married Dr. F. Townshend Dade, a Virginian, who, however, served in the Northern Army during the Civil War as surgeon), Emma, and Gertrude. His grandson, Samuel J. Henderson, son of Robert J. Henderson, joined the Society in 1911.
JAMES HOGAN, member 1909. Mr. Hogan was born in Philadelphia, September 12, 1842, and died at his home, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1913.
He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and in early manhood was engaged in the stationery and book business, which had been established by his grandfather and later conducted by his father. In addition to this work, Captain Hogan was for over forty-six years the general agent for Philadelphia of the Cunard Steamship Company.
His father, David Morris Hogan, was a member of The St. Andrew's Society in 1846, and an uncle, James, in 1838.
His paternal grandfather was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, February 2, 1774, and his grandmother was from Alva, Scotland.
Captain Hogan took an active interest in military affairs
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JAMES FERGUSON HOPE Member 1873 President 1892-1893 Died June 1, 1913
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connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was an original member of the Gray Reserves, and, as lieutenant, Company C, 32d Penna. militia, served in the campaign in the Cumberland Valley preceding the Battle of Gettysburg. He subsequently enlisted in the First Regi- ment National Guard in Company D, and was present with his command on every tour of active duty. He joined the Veteran Corps of that regiment in 1875, and was for over thirty years its paymaster with the rank of captain.
Captain Hogan was not married. Was a member of the Episcopal Church, of the Art Club, and of George G. Meade Post, No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic. He was survived by three sisters. He was buried from the Episcopal Church of The Saviour, West Philadelphia, and interred with mili- tary honors.
JAMES FERGUSON HOPE, member 1873, Vice-president 1890-91, President 1892-93. Born in Alexandria, Dum- bartonshire, Scotland, September 26, 1843; died in Phila- delphia, June 1, 1913.
His parents emigrated to this country in 1847 and settled in Philadelphia. Here Mr. Hope attended the public schools, and at the age of fifteen was employed in the whole- sale grocery house of James Woodside. In 1861 he entered the employ of Thomas Potter, manufacturer of oil-cloths, in which establishment Mr. Hope continued, rising step by step, until at the time of his death he was secretary-treasurer of the Thomas Potter Sons & Co., Incorporated, the business having been greatly extended.
During the Civil War Mr. Hope served in the 196th Regiment Penna. Volunteers, the fifth regiment recruited through the Union League of Philadelphia.
He became a member of the Union League in 1890, and later served on its committee on membership. He was elected a director in 1895, vice-president in 1902-1903- 1904. In 1908 he was elected president of the League and served for three terms. It was during his incumbency that
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the handsome new extension of the League building on Fif- teenth Street was practically completed and the contract for the middle section, including the present large assembly hall and café, was awarded. In all this work, entailing the expenditure of a large amount of money, Mr. Hope's busi- ness tact and ability were fully recognized.
Mr. Hope was interested in a number of business enter- prises, a director of the Philadelphia National Bank, of the American Audit and Appraisement Company, a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was a representative of the city on the board of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. He was a manager of the Home Missionary Society, and a member of George G. Meade Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Republic.
In The St. Andrew's Society, Mr. Hope was recognized as one of its most active members, serving loyally in official positions and on important committees.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM M. HUNTER, U. S. Navy, member 1836. The date and place of birth of Captain Hunter were not found on file in the records of the Navy Department, but the records show that he passed through some of the most stirring scenes in our naval history, and always sus- tained the character of a capable and gallant officer.
He entered the service of the United States as a midship- man January 16, 1809, and, after service in the war with Great Britain at home and abroad, was commissioned lieu- tenant, July 24, 1813, first lieutenant, July 23, 1821, and captain, February 9, 1837.
In November, 1826, he was assigned to the receiving ship at Philadelphia, and in 1828 was sent to the Mediterranean Station to command the " Warren." In 1832 he was again assigned to duty at the United States navy yard in Phila- delphia, and was transferred in 1843 to the command of the receiving ship at Boston.
He died in Philadelphia, March 5, 1849, in his fifty-
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seventh year, and was buried with full military honors in Christ Church burying-ground.
Commodore Charles Stewart, commandant United States navy yard, directed the officers in the city on duty to attend the funeral in full-dress uniform, and requested officers of the army and of the First Division Penna. Militia "to join in paying the last mark of respect to the memory of a gallant officer."
A battalion of infantry and a company of marines, with four volunteer companies-viz., the National Guards, the Philadelphia Greys, Washington Greys, and Patterson Guards-paraded as an escort, and a large number of friends of the deceased, the reverend clergy, and relatives of the family were in attendance. Major-General George Cad- walader and Captains Lavalette and Conover, Commanders Ritchie and Lieb, and Lieutenant Lardner, of the navy, acted as pall-bearers. A requiem for the dead was played by Breiter's band. The Rev. Dr. Henry F. Morton, rector of St. James P. E. Church, read the burial service, and the battalion fired three rounds over the grave.
ROBERT GRAY KENNEDY, Life member 1875. Born June 18, 1850, in the village of Barnyards, Fife, Scotland, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. He was educated in the Edinburgh High School, and then served as an articled pupil in the office of Messrs. Peddie and Kinnear in Edinburgh, who were at that time among the leading architects in Scotland. Our fellow-member, Mr. John Ord, was employed in the same office as the junior to Mr. Kennedy.
After operating on his own account for a short time Mr. Kennedy moved to Philadelphia, and later became senior member of the firm of Kennedy, Hayes and Kelsey, architects. He was one of the first to see the possibilities of suburban development and was largely instrumental in founding Llanerch and other nearby towns, and was also interested in building operations in West Philadelphia. He
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was popular with members of his profession and was noted for his consideration and kindness to men just beginning the practice of architecture.
Mr. Kennedy retired from business in 1905 and re- turned to Scotland, taking up a residence at Elie, a seaside resort of Fife, in the neighborhood of his old home. He there died August 1, 1913, and was buried in the parish Church of Kilconquhar.
THOMAS LEIPER, member 1767, Vice-president 1803- 1813. To the biographical sketch of Thomas Leiper, page 218, "Historical Catalogue " (1907), the following is added, from the inscription on his tomb in Laurel Hill, Lot 20, Section 8.
THOMAS LEIPER
Born at Strathaven, Scotland, December 15, 1745. Came to America 1763, settled in Philadelphia in 1765. One of the organizers of the First City Troop of Philadelphia 1774. Engaged in action at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and in special service at Yorktown. President of Common Council of Philadelphia 1801-05, 1808-10. Constructed and operated the first railroad in Pennsylvania 1809-10.
For sixty years active and successful as merchant and manu- facturer.
Honored by his City and State for patriotic services and unselfish devotion to the cause of Liberty and his Country.
Mr. Leiper was first interred in the burial ground of the Second Presbyterian Church on Arch Street near Third, and, on that place being abandoned, his remains were removed to Laurel Hill, December 9, 1867.
ISRAEL LUKENS, M.D., member 1850. Dr. Lukens was born in 1810 in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and died in Rahway, New Jersey, September II, 1890.
He was educated in the Joseph Foulke School at Gwy- nedd, Penna., and practised his profession until 1860, when
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he retired. He owned considerable property in the neighbor- hood of Second and Market Streets, Philadelphia, and had an office in that vicinity. In 1863 he moved to Rahway, New Jersey, where he resided until he died.
The mother of Dr. Lukens was of Scottish descent; her maiden name was Elinor Lewis.
Dr. Lukens served with an overland party in California and Mexico.
ALEXANDER LUNAN, member 1751, Secretary 1753, Vice-president 1766-67. Mr. Lunan was engaged in mer- cantile business for the sale of European goods, etc., from his store " next door to Captain Phillips on Water Street."
The Minutes of February 28, 1767, state, " The absence of Vice-President Lunan to be taken into consideration at the next meeting, being detained on account of some gentle- men from Jamaica, natives of Scotland, whom he ought to invite and introduce for the benefit of the institution."
Mr. Lunan died July 24, 1770.
DAVID ALEXANDER MACGREGOR, member 1902.
Mr. MacGregor was born in Philadelphia, October 18, 1883, and died at his home in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, November 12, 191I.
He was the son of Donald Ross MacGregor, of Edin- burgh, Scotland, and his wife Mary Ellen Baxter, of Skipton, England.
Mr. MacGregor was a skilled decorator, and carried on all branches of the business of painting and decorating in Philadelphia until his last illness.
He was married to Miss Mary J. Cummings and was sur- vived by five sons.
Mr. MacGregor was a constant attendant at the Quar- terly Meetings of the Society, and, having a fine tenor voice, he was always called upon to favor the members by sing- ing Scottish songs.
WILLIAM MACLURE, member 1796. On Charter 1809.
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Mr. Maclure was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1763, the son of David and Ann Maclure. He there received the primary part of his education under the charge of a Mr. Douglass, noted for his classical and mathematical attainments.
Young Maclure readily acquired various branches of a liberal education, but preferred the simpler and more attractive truths of natural history.
At the age of nineteen he sailed for the United States with a view to mercantile employment, and landed in New York, where, having made satisfactory arrangements, he returned to London as a partner of the firm of Miller, Hart & Co. In 1796 he returned again to the United States and engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia. Mr. Maclure carried on business in his own name at Dock and Pear Streets and also in the firm of Maclure & Robertsons on Walnut Street Wharf, and at No. 102 South Front Street.
In 1803 he was appointed, in conjunction with John Fenton Mercer and Cox Barnet, commissioner to adjust claims against France, presented by citizens of the United States for spoliations committed during the Revolution in that country. This arduous and responsible trust was dis- charged with ability and diligence. During the few years required to close up the duties of the commissioners, Mr. Maclure embraced the opportunity to visit many parts of Europe, collecting objects of natural history and forward- ing them to the United States, which from his boyhood had been to him the land of promise and subsequently his adopted country.
Geology had become the engrossing study of his mind, and was pursued with enthusiasm and success.
On returning to the United States Mr. Maclure entered on a work of great scientific importance-a geological survey of the United States, unsustained by government patronage and unassisted by collateral aids. With hammer in hand and wallet on his shoulder, he crossed and re- crossed the Allegheny Mountains not less than fifty times,
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covering every State and Territory from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
A memoir embracing the accumulated results of this work was read before the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, January 20, 1809, and published in the sixth volume of that Society's transactions. In May, 1817, he presented a final revision of his investigations to that date, which not only placed Mr. Maclure among the first of living geologists, but excited a thirst for inquiry and comparison which has continued to extend its influence in every section of our country.
The surveys since made by the Smithsonian Institute for the United States confirmed Mr. Maclure's deductions. When the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded, in January, 1812, Mr. Maclure's name was early enrolled in its membership, and it may be fairly claimed that without his aid at that time and later it would probably not have been able to have prolonged its existence.
On December 30, 1817, he was elected its President and was annually re-elected each year until he died, a period of twenty-two years, much of the executive work during his absence being performed by Vice-President Samuel G. Morton, who succeeded Mr. Maclure in the Presidency.
In 1816-17 he visited the West Indies and explored nearly twenty of those islands, and in 1819 he visited France and Spain and there engaged in the same work of research.
While in Spain Mr. Maclure formed a plan for an agricultural college to instil advanced ideas there on that subject and, under the approval of the then Revolutionary government, he purchased a large tract of land (some 10,000 acres which had been confiscated from the church) but when the Revolutionary party was overthrown and the King restored, Mr. Maclure was summarily dispossessed without recompense, thus losing all the material he had accumulated for that benevolent purpose. Even then he
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sought to pursue his geological investigations in Spain, but as his life was continually in danger he returned in 1824 to the United States.
Mr. Maclure for a long time had entertained plans for the establishment of an agricultural college in the United States, being thus a leader in a branch since so largely developed. With this end in view he made inquiry into the plans of Robert Owen, the philanthropist and pro- moter of English Socialism.
Mr. Owen married the daughter of David Dale, who had large cotton mills at New Lanark, on the Clyde, Scotland, and there his son, later distinguished in America, was born.
Mr. Owen had first established a colony to work out his theories of profit-sharing and mutual co-operation at Orbiston near Glasgow, and in 1825 he instituted a similar colony at New Harmony, Indiana, but both proved failures within a short time.
Mr. Maclure, while not sharing fully the peculiar views of Mr. Owen, believed that his own plans for an agricultu- ral college could be best carried out in close conjunction with Mr. Owen's work and he purchased adjoining tracts of several hundred acres of land for his school, and moved there from Philadelphia with his private library, philo- sophical instruments, and collections of natural history, designing to make that the centre of education in the West. In his " Opinions on Various Subjects," a series of episto- lary essays mostly on political economy, he expressed him- self without reserve, taking positions in many cases far in advance of his time. The work was issued in three volumes from New Harmony, 1831-1838.
While Mr. Owen's plans were entirely abortive, Mr. Maclure continued his own methods of work at that place for several years in the hope of bringing his school into practical operation. He was, however, much in advance of the time and was finally compelled to abandon it. He transferred his library, 2259 volumes, embracing works in
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every department of useful knowledge, to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
In addition to other large contributions of books and specimens (the books alone numbering over 5000 with many maps and charts), Mr. Maclure was a liberal donor of money, and it was chiefly through his liberality that the new Academy of Natural Sciences was built at Broad and George (Sansom) Streets, his contribution in money at that time being $20,000.
In further pursuit of his life work Mr. Maclure in 1827 went to Mexico, and the year following he returned in order to preside at the meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, of the American Geological Society, of which he had long been President.
Again returning to Mexico, early in 1839 he suffered several severe shocks from disease, and from that period age and its varied infirmities grew rapidly upon him. In his desire to reach Philadelphia he had arranged through his friend, the United States Consul at Vera Cruz, to be conveyed on a litter to the sea-coast, but was compelled by illness to relinquish the journey, and retraced his steps to the country house of another friend, a former President of Mexico, where he received every attention.
He was again moved to San Angel, where he died on March 23, 1840, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, thus closing a life, in which no views of pecuniary ad- vantage or personal aggrandizement entered, but devoted with untiring energy and singular disinterestedness to the attainment and diffusion of practical knowledge.
Dr. Morton in his memoir, said of Mr. Maclure per- sonally " that he was singularly mild and unostentatious in his manner, and though a man of strong feelings he seldom allowed his temper to triumph over his judgment. Cautious in his intimacies and firm in his friendships, time and circumstances in no degree weakened the affections of his earlier years."
[Principally from memoir by Dr. Samuel G. Morton,
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read before the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, July 1, 1861. Portraits in the Academy of Mr. Maclure by Thomas Sully, and Charles Wilson Peale. Reference to location of Mr. Maclure's business in Philadelphia added by the compiler. ]
MAJOR JOHN MACPHERSON, JUNIOR, member 1773.
To the memoir of this gallant young soldier printed on page 262 of the " Historical Catalogue, 1907," the following, from the oration by the Rev. Dr. William Smith, is appro- priate :
When the news of the death of General Montgomery at Quebec was received in Philadelphia, Congress, then in ses- sion, by resolution desired the Rev. Dr. William Smith to deliver a funeral oration " in honor of General Montgomery and of those Officers and Soldiers who magnanimously fought and fell with him in maintaining the principles of American Liberty."
The services were held in the new German Calvinist Church in Race Street below Fourth, on Monday morning, February 14, 1776, that church having a large seating capa- city. The Congress, the Provincial Assembly, the City Cor- poration, and Officials and others met at the State House and proceeded to the church in a body.
The following is the reference in the oration by Doctor Smith to Major Macpherson, who had been one of his pupils in the Academy and College of Philadelphia :
Here ye Pennsylvania youths, second to none in virtue, let a portion of your tears be sacred to the name of Macpherson. You remember his generous spirit in his early years, for he drank of the same springs of science with many of you now before me; and we, who reached the cup to your lips, rejoice that it contributed to invigorate both him and you into wisdom and public spirit. Having finished his scholastic education, he studied the laws of his country, under a lawyer and a patriot of distinguished name (John Dickinson, Esq.), and ani- mated by his example, as well as precepts, had become eminent in his profession at an age when some have scarce begun to think business.
The love of liberty being his ruling passion, he thought it his duty,
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MOUNT PLEASANT
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Built in 1761 by Captain John Macpherson, member 1751. First named "Clunie" after the seat of the "Macphersons of Clunie"
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