Scofield, Glenni W

(1817-1591), represented Pennsylvania in the U. S. Congre as a Republican from 1863 to 1875. He was Register of the U. S. Treasury from 1878 to 1881, and a Justice of the U. S. Court of Claims from 1881 to 1891. Scotch-Irish, the name used in America to designate immigrants from the north of Ireland, mostly Presbyterians of Scotch destent. Scots had been settled in the north of Ireland during the ‘‘ Plantation of Ulster ” in the reign of JamesI. Thence some came to America early. But the large emigrations were just after the famous siege of London derry in 1689, and again in 1718 and the years immediately succeeding, The largest settlements of them were made in the hilly parts of Pennsylvania, in the valley of the Shenandoah, and in the Carol in as. In all these, they occupied the highland regions, back from the coast, and formed a sturdy, independent, Presbyterian population. Jackson, Calhoun, and many other eminent men were of this stock. In New England their chief settlements were at London derry, Antrim, etc., in New Hanipshire, founded about 1719. Scotch-Irish Congre es. The first was held at Columbia, Tenn., in May, 1889, at which tine the Scotch-Irish Society was organized. The purpose of the society and the yearly conventions is the preservation of Scotch-Irish history and a ociations. The second Congre was convened at Pittsburgh, Pa., May 29—June 1, 1890; the third at Louisville, Ky., May, 1891; the fourth at Atlanta, Ga., April 28, 1892; the fifth at Springfield, Ohio, in May, 1893; the sixth at Des Moines, Iowa, in June, 1894.