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This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both immigrants who obtained U.S. citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scottish American or must have references showing they are Scottish American and are notable.
Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank". Burgh, alternatively spelled Burg, means "city" or "town".
Pages in category "American people of Scottish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,393 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland .
Originally the membership was made up of two men and twenty three women. When the organization was firmly established, the men withdrew. [7] Membership was opened to the wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, and widows of members of the Order of Scottish Clans, as well as other women of Scottish descent or adopted by the OSC or DOS.
On January 1, 1933, merged with the Society of Taborites, Bohemian-Slavonic Fraternal Benefit Union, the Bohemian-Slavonic Union and the Bohemian American Foresters. The organization changed its name to the Czechoslovak Society of America but maintained the original 1854 charter. [143] The Unity of Czech Ladies and Men was absorbed in 1977. [144]
The American icon Uncle Sam, who is known for embodying the American spirit, was based on a businessman from Troy, New York, Samuel Wilson, whose parents sailed to America from Greenock, Scotland, has been officially recognized as the original Uncle Sam. He provided the army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812.
Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among the majority of mixed ancestry, [40] and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scots-Irish Protestants settled in North ...