Curated category
American people of Scotch-Irish descent
- Stephen KingStephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father Donald Edwin King worked as a traveling vacuum salesman after…
- Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He grew up as the sixth of seven children to Jane Lampton and John…
- William McKinleyWilliam McKinley Jr. stood in the ranks of the Poland Guards on a June day in 1861, holding a rifle and wearing a uniform that had not yet been issued to his…
- James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
- John D. RockefellerJohn Davison Rockefeller was born on the 8th of July 1839 in a small village called Richford, New York. He entered the world as the second child of William A.
- Ulysses S. GrantHiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father Jesse Root Grant worked as a leather merchant and held strong Whig…
- Al GoreOn the 31st of March 1948, Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of a U.S. Representative and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore.
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was born on the 20th of August 1833, on a farm by the Ohio River in North Bend, Ohio. He was the second of ten children born to John Scott…
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists who had emigrated from…
- John WayneMarion Robert Morrison entered the world on the 26th of May 1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local newspaper reported his birth weight…
- Woodrow WilsonIn 1856, a child named Woodrow Wilson stood near the front gate of his family's parsonage in Augusta, Georgia. He was three years old when he heard a…
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
- James BuchananJames Buchanan Jr. entered the world on the 23rd of April 1791 inside a log cabin called Stony Batter near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern…
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5th of August 1930 in rural Washington Township, Auglaize County, Ohio. His father worked as an auditor for the state…
- Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
- JD VanceJames David Vance was born James Donald Bowman on the 2nd of August 1984, in Middletown, Ohio. He grew up in a home marked by poverty and abuse while his…
- Carrie FisherCarrie Frances Fisher entered the world on the 21st of October 1956 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.
- Irvin McDowellIrvin McDowell was born on the 15th of October 1818 in Columbus, Ohio. His parents were Abram Irvin McDowell and Eliza Seldon McDowell.
- Maxwell AndersonJames Maxwell Anderson entered the world on the 15th of December 1888, in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. He was the second of eight children born to William Lincoln…
- James M. BuchananJames McGill Buchanan Jr. was born on the 3rd of October 1919 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He grew up on a farm that suffered during the 1920s when his father…
- Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley was born on the 3rd of February 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire. He could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life.
- James IrwinJames Benson Irwin was born on the 17th of March 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were James William Irwin and Elsa Mathilda Irwin.
- Leonidas PolkLeonidas Polk was born on the 10th of April 1806 in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father William served as a Revolutionary War veteran and later became a…
- Richard Taylor (Confederate general)Richard Taylor was born on the 27th of January, 1826 at Springfield. This plantation sat near Louisville in Kentucky as his family home.
- George F. KennanGeorge Frost Kennan arrived in the world on the 16th of February 1904, within a household in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father was Kossuth Kent Kennan, a…
- David FarragutJames Glasgow Farragut arrived at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee on the 5th of July 1801. His father was a Spanish merchant captain named…
- Nathan Bedford ForrestNathan Bedford Forrest entered the world on the 13th of July 1821, inside a one-room log cabin near Chapel Hill, Tennessee.