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Library materials
Abbott, Jacob. Rollo in Scotland. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1857. Call number: PS1000 .A8 R637 1857 CASE d
Aquilar, Grace. The Days of Bruce: A Story From History. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1886. Call number: PR4001 .A283 D2 1886
Anderson, William. The Scottish Nation; Or, the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland. Edinburgh: Fullarton, 1866. Call number: CS463 .A552
Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott. Call number: F160 .S4 P4
Annual Reunion. Pittsburgh: Scottish Rite (Masonic Order, 18). Call number: HS778 .P69 S36 d
Atlantic Crossroads: Historical Connections Between Scotland, Ulster and North America. Newtownards: Colourpoint, 2001. Call number: E184 .S4 A7 2001
Best Wit of the Scottish People; Proverbs of Scotland. Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1930? Call number: PN6178 .S4 M153 d
Birkby, Evelyn Corrie. Witching for William. Sidney: Honey Hill Books, c2008. Call number: CS71 .S796 2008
Blair, Hugh. Sermons. Baltimore: Re-printed by the Rev. M.L. Weems, by Samuel and John Adams, 1793. Call number: BX9178 .B665 S4 1792 CASE d
Blair, Hugh. Sermons. Gettysburg: Printed by R. Harper for R. and G.K. Harper, 1805. Call number: F148.7 1805
Buffington, Joseph. Address of Hon. Joseph Buffington. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, 1918. Call number: E184 .S4 B929
Chalmers, Thomas. A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Held at Glasgow, October 17, 1843. Glasgow: W. Collins, 1843. Call number: BL25 .M143 no. 11
Cookery Book. Edinburgh: Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes, 1968. Call number: TX717.3 .C665 1968, Selected Scottish-Americans Bibliography Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
The Confession of the Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, with the Scripture-Proofs at Large. Church of Scotland. Call number: BX9174 .C748 1768 CASE d
Cox, Henry Bartholomew. The Mind of Charles Thomson. Philadelphia: Scotch-Irish Foundation, 1973. Call number: E302.6 T48 C877
Dixon, B. Homer. The Border or Riding Clans Followed by A History of the Clan Dickson and A Brief Account of the Family of the Author, B. Homer Dixon, K.N.L. Albany: J. Munsell’s Sons, 1889. Call number: CS478 .D621
Dobson, David. Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984 <1986>. Call number: CS412 .D635
Dobson, David. Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875. Baltimore: Clearfield, 1998-. Call number: E184 .S3 D63 1998
Douglas, Robert Sir. The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, from their Origin to the Present Generation: Collected from the Public Records…. Edinburgh: Printed by G. Ramsay, 1813. Call number: CS468 .D735 ff
Dufrenoy, A. (Armand). On the Use of Hot Air in the Iron Works of England and Scotland. Translated from a Report, Made to the Director General of Mines in France by M. Dufrenoy in 1834. London: J. Murray, 1836. Call number: TN715 .D86
Erickson, Charlotte. Invisible Immigrants; the Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1972. Call number: E184 .B7 E68
Finley, John H. The Coming of the Scot. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons; London, C. Scribner’s Sons, Ltd., 1940. Call number: E184 .S3 F5
Glazier, Ira A., ed. Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006-. Call number: E184 .B7 E45 2006
Harmening, Clara B. James Whiteside McConnell of Westmoreland County, PA: His Ancestors and Descendants. Decorah: Anundens Pub. Co., c2011. Call number: CS71 .M1288 2011 q
Hanna, Charles A. The Scotch-Irish; Or The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968. Call number: E184 .S4 H2 1968
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Hensel, W.U. The "Scotch-Irish" in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Response to a Toast at the Anniversary Dinner of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia. Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1905? Call number: F160 .S4 H526 q
History of St. Patrick’s Parish, Shieldmuir, Wishaw. Wishaw: The Parish, 1991. Call number: BX4633 .W4 S27 1991
Howie, John. The Scots Worthies. Edinburgh; London: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1870. Call number: BX9081 .H86
Irvine, Sherry. Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, c1997. Call number: CS463 .I78 1997
Johnson, Melvin Maynard. Advance Copy of the Allocution of the M.P. Sovereign Gand Commander Melvin M. Johnson, 33e to be Delivered at the One Hundred Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council, 33, e Pittsburgh. Call number: HS765 .J64 1946.
Jonas, Linda. A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 2002. Call number: CS462 .J66 2002q
Keltie, John Scott, Sir. A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans, and Highland Regiments: with an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music. Edinburgh; London: A. Fullarton, 1877. Call number: DA880 .H7 K27 q
Landale, James. Duel: A True Story of Death and Honour. Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 2005. Call number: CR4595 .S38 L36 2005
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. All in the Morning Early. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Call number: PR8621 .L562 A4 1963
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. By Loch and By Lin; Tales from Scottish Ballads (retold). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Call number: PR8621 .L562 B9 1969
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Gaelic Ghosts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1963. Call number: PR8621 .L562 G3 1963
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Ghosts Go Haunting. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Call number: PR8621 .L562 G4 1965
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic; Tales of the Western Isles. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Call number: GR145 .H4 L46 1968
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Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Thistle and Thyme; Tales and Legends from Scotland. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Call number: PR8621 .L562 T4 1962
Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Twelve Great Black Cats and Other Eerie Scottish Tales. New York: Dutton, 1971. Call number: PR8621 .L562 T8 1971
Leyburn, James Graham. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962. Call number: E184 .S4 L682
Library and Archives of the Scotch-Irish Foundation in the Custody of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Philadelphia: The Institute, 1991. Call number: E184 .S3 L697 1991
Mackey, Albert Gallatin. The History of Freemasonry, Its Legends and Traditions, Its Chronological History. New York, London: The Masonic History Company, c1898-1906. Call number: HS403 .M154 v.1 f
Mackie, John Beveridge. Andrew Carnegie: His Dunfermline Ties and Benefactions. Dunfermline: Dunfermline Journal Printing Works, 1916. Call number: F159.26 .C28 M158
McClelland, M.A. Genealogy of the Family of Maclellan. Knoxville: Republican Print, Establishment, 1882. Call number: CS71 .M164 M164
McWilliams, J. Wesley. The Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, 1958. Call number: F160 .S4 M3 1958
Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Iain, Sr. The Highland Clans: the Dynastic Origins, Chiefs and Background of the Clans and of Some Other Families Connected with Highland History. New York: C.N. Potter: distributed by Crown, 1982. Call number: DA772 .M771 1982 f
Nolan, J. Bennett. Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Ireland, 1759 and 1771. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Call number: E302.6 F8 N788
One Hundred Years and Counting: A History of the Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America, 1889-1989. Bryn Mawr: the Society, 1989. Call number: E184 .S4 S424
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs. London: G. Routledge, 1903? Call number: PR5189 .P5 S3
Riddle, D.H. The Scotch-Irish Element of Presbyterianism: A Discourse Delivered Before the Presbyterian
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Historical Society in New York, and Repeated, By Request, Before the Associate Reformed Synod, in Allegheny. Pittsburgh: Printed by John T. Shyrock, 1856. Call number: BX 9178 .R54 CASE d
Scarlett, James Desmond. Tartans of Scotland. London: Lutterworth Press, 1972. Call number: DA 880 .H76 S38 d
The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans: History of Each Clan and Full List of Septs. Edinburgh; London: W. & A.K., Ltd & G.W. Bacon, Ltd., 1954. Call number: DA880 .S425 1954 d
The Scottish Classroom in the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940. Call number: LD6012 .N277 S425
The Scottish Tartans: with Historical Sketches of the Clans and Families of Scotland, the Arms of Chiefs of Clans and Families and Clansmen’s Badges. Edinburgh: Johnston and Bacon, 1963. Call number: DA880 .H76 I58 1963 d
Sims, Clifford Stanley. The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames; with a Vocabulary of Christian Names. Rutland: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1969 Call number: CS2435 .S61 1969a
Stewart, Reid W. A History of Scottish Dissenting Presbyterianism in Franklin County, Pennsylvania: Being An Account of Reformed Presbyterian, Associate Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church. Apollo: Closson Press, 1987. Call number: BX9072 .S8518
Stewart, Reid W. Scottish Dissenting Presbyterian Churches in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, 1994). Call number: BX8946 .S38 S74 1994
Ulster to America: the Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2012. Call number: E184 .S4 U48 2011
Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie’s Hogmanay; Or A Child’s New Year in Calvinist Scotland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Call number: GT4987 .W18 d
Wall, Joseph Frazier. Skibo. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Call number: DA890 .S6 W187
Archival Collections
John Morton papers 1809-1840.
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Papers consist of a transcribed copy of excerpts from the diary of John Morton, 1809-1840. John Morton came to America from Scotland in 1809 and settled in Pittsburgh for two years. With the deaths of his sister and husband, he returned to Scotland to raise his nephew. Call number: MFF 2132
Lon H. Colborn papers and photographs 1830-1990. The Lon H. Colborn papers and photographs have been arranged into two series. Series I consists of materials relating to his personal life and his career as a chemistry teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School as well as his genealogical background. Boxes one and two primarily contain correspondence, publications, photographs, and notebooks. Box three contains genealogies of the Hardy and Hanna families from whom Lon Colborn is descended. Series II focuses on the Moore and Grossman families, the families of his wife, Kathleen Grossman. The boxes contain portraits of her family, news articles about various family members, and correspondence among family members. Series I: Lon H. Colborn Series I is housed in three boxes and contains letters, news articles, photographs, honors and awards, notebooks, and genealogical information on his ancestors. Series II: Moore-Grossman Family Series II is housed in four boxes and focuses on the Moore and Grossman families, his in-laws. These materials are primarily correspondence and photographs of Moore and Grossman family members. Call number: MSS 0743 Finding aid: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=m ain;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss743
Ligonier Highland Games Programs and Brochure, 1980, 1982 and 2004. Call number: MFF 1154
St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, Greentree, Pa, c1980. Call number: GPC B001 F059
Tartan Day, April 6, 2010 program. Call number: 2010.0105
William Gibson papers 1803-1849. Papers include originals and transcripts of correspondence to William Gibson from various family members dealing with personal issues and the hardships in Scotland, 1803 to 1839; tax bill 1841; court summons 1841-1842; receipt 1841; broadside for a musical; bill from the Boston Investigator, and a recipe for jelly. Separations from the collection include a letter from Elizabeth Gibson and John Adam to William Gibson dated June 12, 1830. Separations are included in MFO 2107. Call number: MFF 2107
Wilson family papers 1854-1990 1962-1967 (bulk) Papers include correspondence, notes, maps, deed and will references and miscellaneous material reflecting Milburn Wilson's work to research and compile the Wilson family history. Also included are transcripts of original family correspondence. Oversize materials include family photographs, awards, and other items. Call number: MSS 0105 Finding aid: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=m ain;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS105
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