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DESCENDANTS OF JAMES PEDDIE

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INCLUDES THE LINEAGE OF JOHN DICK MORE PEDDIE - ARCHITECT

And another reference to him HERE

Generation No. 1

1. JAMES2 PEDDIE (? DAVID1) was born in migrated to Manchester. He

married ANN RATTRAY Bef. 1758.

Notes for JAMES PEDDIE: Occupation: was A Brewer

married 1. Helen Comb, 2. Ann Rattray

Children of JAMES PEDDIE and ANN RATTRAY are:

2. i. JAMES [REV]3 PEDDIE, b. 1758, Perth; d. 1845, Scotland, Warriston

cemetery (opened in 1843) in Edinburgh. .

ii. ANN PEDDIE, m. UNKNOWN GRIEG.

Notes for UNKNOWN GRIEG: Genealogy Index (Grouped by Family) for surnames

beginning . . . . . 21 OCT 1976) Lugton, Alexander Peddie Greig (b. 6 MAY . . .

Not Shown--) Lugton, Derek James (b. --Not Shown--) Lugton . . . 1825)

Lugton, George Lockhart Rev(b. --Not Shown . . .

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John Rev. Birth : 1878 - Death : 1955 . . Married to Greig, Alexander

Peddie Birth : 1841 - Death : UNKNOWN . . . Greig, James. Birth : 22 MAR . . .

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iii. LAWRENCE PEDDIE.

iv. JOHN PEDDIE.

v. DAVID PEDDIE.

vi. CHRISTIAN PEDDIE.

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES [REV]3 PEDDIE (JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 1758 in Perth, and

died 1845 in Scotland, Warriston cemetery (opened in 1843) in Edinburgh. .

He married (1) MARGARET COVENTRY, daughter of REV COVENTRY and SPOUSE

UNKNOWN. She died 1792. He married (2) BARBARA SMITH 01 Sep 1787 in ST

Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, daughter of DONALD SMITH.

Notes for JAMES [REV] PEDDIE: *'''James Peddie''' ([[1758]]-[[1845]]),

Presbyterian divine; An able and judicious divine. Born at Perth. . . of

Edinburgh University; minister of the Bristo Street secession church in

Edinburgh, 1782-1845; twice moderator; took a leading part in the old and

new light controversy as a new light went in 1775 to Edinburgh University

. . licensed to preach in 1782. . at first he preached to fill a pulpit then he

was assigned to Bristo church and stayed til his death in 1818 marshal

College deferred him the degree of DD . . wrote many sermons

Rev Dr James Peddie of Bristo Church, Edinburgh was Moderator of the

Burgher Synod from 1789. He presided over the split between the Rev Dr

John Brown's 'Old Light Burghers and his own 'New Light Burghers in 1799.

The Rev Dr James Peddie married twice, his first marriage being to

Margaret Coventry, which brought a link by marriage with the civil and

railway engineers Benjamin Hall Blyth and Edward Lawrence Blyth which was

to be important later. His second marriage to Barbara Smith, daughter of

Lord Provost Donald Smith of the private bank Donald Smith & Company,

brought a significant range of business connections Ordained Apr 3 1783

to associate congregation Brist/Rose st

married 1. Barbara Smith, 2. Margaret Coventry

Notes for MARGARET COVENTRY: Oldest daughter

Notes for BARBARA SMITH:

second daughter Of Donald Smith . . . 1806-1807 Lord Provost of Edinburgh

Sheriff, Coroner Admiral with in city limits At Edinburgh, Age 75, Donald

Smith Esq, banker Lord Provost of Edinburgh [The Gentleman Magazine, Book

of Dignitaries ] Had 9 kids

Children of JAMES PEDDIE and BARBARA SMITH are:

3. i. WILLIAM [REV]4 PEDDIE, b. 1805, Christening: 25 OCT 1805 St

Cuthberts, Edinburgh; d. 23 Feb 1893. 4. ii. ALEXANDER PEDDIE, b. 1810.

iii. CHRISTIAN PEDDIE, b. Christening: 16 OCT 1803 St

Cuthberts, Edinburgh; d. (died). iv. DONALD SMITH PEDDIE, b. . . accountant

Edin, factor & tutor to James COLSTON.

Notes for DONALD SMITH PEDDIE:

LKS] MLN Testaments 1830-35 part 18

. . Foot d Montreal, Canada Aug 1834. Mrs . . . 1835. Donald Smith PEDDIE

accountant Edin . . . in the family of Sir . . . 1835. John CAMPBELL nephew of

. . . & West of Scotland FHS: Unit . . .

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v. MARYANNE PEDDIE.

vi. BARBARA PEDDIE, m. ? HARPER.

vii. MARGARET PEDDIE, m. ? WATSON.

5. viii. JAMES PEDDIE, b. Abt. May 1798, ST

Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

ix. JOHN SMITH PEDDIE, b. Christening: 3 JUN 1808 St Cuthberts, Edinburgh.

Generation No. 3

3. WILLIAM [REV]4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 1805

in Christening: 25 OCT 1805 St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, and died 23 Feb 1893.

He married (1) UNKNOWN

Notes for WILLIAM [REV] PEDDIE:

Dictionary of National Biography. . . By LESLIE. STEPHEN Life Notes] P. 387

Attended High School and university in Edinburgh In 1827 licensed to

preach the year later successor of his fathers church . . 1843 the degree

D. D. was given to him from the Jefferson College Penn. . Editor of the

United Presbyterian Magazine for years . . interested Mission in France

wrote a memoir to his father discourses in 1840 . . . Jubilee 1878

Child of WILLIAM PEDDIE and UNKNOWN is:

6. i. ?5 PEDDIE.

4. ALEXANDER4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 1810. He

married CLARA ELIZABETH SIBBOLO ANDERSON, daughter of THOMAS ANDERSON and

MARGARET SCOTT. She was born Abt. 1821 in c: 7 NOV 1821 in Selkirk.

Notes for ALEXANDER PEDDIE:

President Royal College of Physicians. . 1877. . . Graduated in 1835

EDINBURGH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1907 . . . EDITORIAL - DR. ALEXANDER PEDDIE

It is not vouchsafed to many of the sons of men to cross

the hundred arches of the bridge of Mirza. A few escape the

“ Gates of Death” until they have passed the seventy

unbroken spans, but the numbers crossing the ruined arches

steadily lessen as they, like the subject of the present

notice, near the end of the visionary bridge. On high

authority it has been asserted that the later years of such

men are “but labour and sorrow”, yet the career of the

doyen of the Scottish medical profession shows that such a

statement is not of universal application. The retrospect

of a life remarkable for its usefulness and rich in its

fulfilment, instinct with broad sympathies and devoted to

wide interests, distinguished by generosity of thought and

magnanimity of mind, could not fail to furnish peace and

happiness, and this feeling was undoubtedly enhanced by the

assurance, on all hands, of the universal love and respect

of his fellow-countrymen.

Alexander Peddie belonged to the “Brahmin caste, ” as the Autocrat puts it,

and was the son of an eminent minister in Edinburgh. Born in 1810, his

earliest memories centred in the stirring scenes marking the decline and

fall of the great Napoleon.

At the High School he was a member of one of

the large classes characteristic of the time: that to which he belonged

included many men who afterwards attained distinction, all of whom passed

away before him. On leaving school, he spent a few years in a bank, but,

on the advice of Dr. Abercromby, he decided to study medicine, and became

in 1830 an apprentice to Mr. Syme at Minto House, where he was associated

with his lifelong friend, John Brown. Graduating at the University five

years later, he repaired to the Continent, and devoted himself more

particularly to study in Paris, whose medical school was then at the

zenith of one of its most famous epochs. It is of interest to note that on

his return to engage in practice, he was the first to introduce the stethoscope to Edinburgh. In addition to engaging in

private practice, Dr. Peddie, in combination with Dr. Brown and Dr.

Cornwall, accepted the charge of the hospital at Minto House. From this

time onwards until his retirement, a few years ago, Dr. Peddie spent an

active life and enjoyed a large practice in his native city. He did not

restrict his energies, by any means, to medicine, but allowed his wide

sympathies free scope in many directions; his professional duties,

however, were ever first in his thoughts. At all times possessed of an

open mind, he was quick to detect any possibility of advances in

knowledge. As a proof of this, it may be mentioned that he was the

earliest to demonstrate in Edinburgh the animal parasites of skin

diseases. In two other directions, at least, he was far in advance of his

compeers.

At a comparatively early period of his career he recognized the

infectious nature of puerperal fever, and strove with all his energies to

o btain wide recognition of the fact. His name thus deserves to be

placed along with those of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Semmelweiss as one of the

pioneers in a great advance. Some years ago Professor Osler wrote to ask

Dr. Wendell Holmes whether he looked back with greater pleasure to his

paper on “ Puerperal Infectivity, ” or to the composition of the “

Chambered Nautilus, ” and received, as might be expected, a reply in favour

of the scientific advance rather than of the literary triumph. If a

similar query had been addressed to Dr. Peddie – if he had been asked

whether he would rather have his name associated in the future with a

practical achievement, bringing in its train the saving of countless

precious lives, or would the biography of his friend, which has delighted

a large circle of readers, there can be no question as to what his answer

would have been.

In another branch of medicine Dr. Peddie initiated

beneficial changes. Impressed by the failure attendant upon attempts to

deal with inebriates, he suggested views in regard to pathology a

nd treatment far in advance of those at the time in vogue. Earnest

consideration of the questions involved led him to the conclusion that

inebriety is to be regarded as the outcome of cerebral disease, and he,

therefore proposed that the management of such cases should be based upon

modern scientific conceptions. The practical outcome of his work in this

direction has certainly been of the highest value. Led by the results of

wide observation to recognise the want of it, he was amongst the

enlightened men who initiated the movement in favour of the institution

of a hospital for children, and to his advocacy of the cause the

foundation of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children is in great part

due. Dr. Peddie contributed numerous papers and articles upon these and

many other subjects to medical literature, the largest number of which

appeared in the pages of this Journal. These contributions are marked by

breadth of view and originality of thought, while characterised by

lucidity of style and purity of diction. During his professional care

er many

honours were bestowed upon him: he became President of the Royal College

of Physicians in 1877 and of the Harveian Society in 1890. In this latter

capacity he performed a pious duty by devoting the Annual Oration to a

delightful sketch of the life of “ Rab. ” This charming biography was

afterwards extended, and will remain one of the most graceful tributes to

friendship afforded by our profession. In his personal character Dr. Peddie

was one of the most lovable of mankind. This did not arise from weakness,

for he was equally strong in defence of what he deemed right and in

denunciation of what he considered wrong; it arose from his generous

instincts and kindly ways. These traits were ever in evidence on his

aristocratic features and in his steadfast eye; his expression was

singularly winning as it reflected his changing moods from grave to gay;

his bearing was a charming survival of a courteous past. Always fond of

music, he possessed an excellent voice, and with Professors

Christison, Bennett, and Maclagan, formed the quartet so popular in the

rendering of glees. During his later years he showed a love for the

brush, and produced water-colour sketches of much beauty.

*CHECKLIST OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF . . .

. . See: CULLEN, William, 11. PATERSON, George Andrew [1811 - 1893]. See:

ROYAL COLLEGE OF . . . Presented by RI Bunting, 1947. PEDDIE, Alexander

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*Dr. Alexander Peddie, Doctor of Medicine, was President of the Royal

College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh, 1877 - 1879. He died in

1907. Some of his decendents settled in Iowa and California in the late

1800's. His grandson, Alexander, b. 1885 was one of the early casualties

in the opening battle of World War 1. [Thanks to George Peddie of Scotland

for this]. . . . Peddie reasearch

*And here is some more information from Christopher Peddie in the

USA. . . Peddie research I am a direct descendent of Dr. Alexander Peddie of

Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the first Scottish physician to use the

anesthetic Chloriform. The "Alexander" name has passed down to all male

members of my family. My son's name is Lucas Alexander Peddie. He is 24.

I'm the doctor's Great, Great, Great Grandson. Our family crest, displayed

above is on the far left. I have it in my home, along with hundreds of

pictures and documented items. Nice to know the site is here. [Christopher

Alexander Peddie, Pensacola, FL. , USA]

Children of ALEXANDER PEDDIE and CLARA ANDERSON are:

7. i. ALEXANDER5 PEDDIE, b. 21 Nov 1853, b: 21 NOV 1853 in St

Cuthberts, Edinburgh. . emigrated to America and eventually settled in Iowa.

ii. JAMES PEDDIE.

iii. MARY ANN PEDDIE.

iv. THOMAS ANDERSON PEDDIE.

v. HENRY ANDERSON PEDDIE.

vi. MARGARET SCOTT PEDDIE.

vii. BARBARA SMITH PEDDIE.

viii. CLARA PEDDIE.

5. JAMES4 PEDDIE (JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born Abt. May 1798

in ST Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married MARGARET DICK

16 Aug 1821 in 16 AUG 1821 in Edinburgh & Glasgow, daughter of JOHN [REV]

DICK.

Notes for JAMES PEDDIE:

Christening: 14 MAY 1798 Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

migrated to Manchester apprenter to James Grieg fact from A History of the

Society of Writers to Her Majesty's

Notes for MARGARET DICK:

dau of The Reverend John Dick-of Glasglow . . . received his license as a

preacher from the Associate presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline . . . the

first year of his ministry he lived with Dr Peddie of Edinburgh

. . . electricscotland. com/history/other/dick_john. htm

Children of JAMES PEDDIE and MARGARET DICK are:

i. JAMES5 PEDDIE, b. 16 Oct 1822, in Saint

Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Notes for JAMES PEDDIE:

# Title: -civil engineer

# Birth: 16 OCT 1822 in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

8. ii. JOHN DICK PEDDIE, b. 24 Feb 1824, St

Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Twin of William Peddie

iii. WILLIAM PEDDIE, b. 24 Feb 1824, St

Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Notes for WILLIAM PEDDIE:

Twin of John Dick Peddie

Generation No. 4

7. ALEXANDER5 PEDDIE (ALEXANDER4, JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was

born 21 Nov 1853 in b: 21 NOV 1853 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh. . emigrated to

America and eventually settled in Iowa. He married (1) LETA GERTRUDE

HOLMAN. He married (2) CARRIE JOSEPHINE ROPER 21 Oct 1875 in Iowa,

daughter of FRANKLIN ROPER and CLARISSA BEERS.

Notes for ALEXANDER PEDDIE:

# Name: Alexander PEDDIE

# Birth: 21 NOV 1853 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh

ALEXANDER PEDDIE Occupation Farmer

Age 28

Sex M

Literacy U

Arrived 1880-05-04

Origin Scotland

Port Glasgow

Last Residence

Destination UNITED STATES

Plan Unknown

Ship Anchoria

Passage Unknown

* Note Dennis King stated . . . I really think the Alexander Peddie than came

to the United States arrived 31 Oct. 1871. The 1900 and 1930 United Stated

Federal Census indicate that and also the New York passenger ship list

record. [rootsweb]

*note Patti McRae stated Alex Peddie lived in Emmetsburg and had a

daughter, Clara, who married great-uncle on my mothers's side, Albert

Schirmer. I can provide more information about this family if you are

interested. . [rootsweb]

*his father Doctor Alexander Peddie (President Royal College of Physicians

1877)He emigrated to America and eventually settled in Iowa (was

something in the Masonic Lodge). One of his descendants called Price

(forgothis first name) was a USN Commander who died in California very

recently , Cupercino I think.

Palo Alto County Directories. . . Michael, meat market SCOTT, James, sorghum

mill. Scottish American . . . Co. (limited) Alexander PEDDIE comnr. , Norman

J . . . A. , jeweler SMITH, Rev. JJ (Catholic) SOPER

. . . celticcousins. net/paloalto/1883dir. htm - Alexander Peddie & Carrie

Josephine Roperhttp: // e-familytree. net/f6626. htm

Dar Members

. . Born in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Wife of Francis Edward Allen. Descendant of

Daniel Roper, as follows: 1. Alexander Peddie (b. 1853) m. 1875 Josephine

Roper (1857 . . . http: // celticcousins. net/paloalto/dar. htm

celticcousins

Notes for LETA GERTRUDE HOLMAN:

Leta Gertrude Holman

Notes for CARRIE JOSEPHINE ROPER:

Carrie Josephine Roper 5

Husband Alexander Peddie

Wife Carrie Josephine Roper 5

Married: 21 Oct 1875 - Emmetsburg, , IA

Born: 16 Sep 1857 - Horicon, Dodge, WI

Christened:

Died: 22 Feb 1896

Carrie Josephine Roper 5

Father: Franklin Horatio Roper (1824-1910) 5

Mother: Clarissa Ann Beers (1827-1887) 5

Children of ALEXANDER PEDDIE and CARRIE ROPER are:

i. CLARA ANDERSON6 PEDDIE, b. 1877, Born: 22 Aug 1877 - Emmetsburg, , IA.

ii. MARGARET JOSEPHINE PEDDIE, b. 1878, Born: 10 Sep 1878 - Emmetsburg, ,

IA. iii. FRANKLIN ALEXANDER PEDDIE, b. 1881, Born: 15 May 1881 -

Emmetsburg, , IA. iv. BARBARA ISABELLE PEDDIE, b. 1883, Born: 10 Feb 1883

- Emmetsburg, , IA. v. JESSIE MARY ROPER PEDDIE, b. 1887, Born: 7 Sep

1887 - Emmetsburg, , IA. vi. HENRY SCOTT CRAWFORD PEDDIE, b. 1890, Born:

1 Nov 1890 - Edinburgh, , , Scotland. vii. WILLIAM JOSEPH PEDDIE, b.

1892, Born: 10 May 1892 - Emmetsburg, , IA.

8. JOHN DICK5 PEDDIE (JAMES4, JAMES [REV]3, JAMES2, ? DAVID1) was born 24

Feb 1824 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He married

EUPHEMIA LOCKHART MORE 1851, daughter of JAMES STEPHEN MORE.

Notes for JOHN DICK PEDDIE:

# Title: -architect

# Sex: M

# Birth: 24 FEB 1824 in Edinburgh

# Note:

John Dick Peddie

Designation: Architect

Born: 24 February 1824

Died: 12 March 1891

Bio Notes from the Dictionary of Scottish Architects

http: // codexgeo. co. uk/dsa/ John Dick Peddie and his twin brother

William were born in Edinburgh on 24 February 1824, the second and

third sons of James Peddie WS and his wife Margaret Dick. Both the

Peddies and the Dicks were prominent families within the United

Associate Synod which became the United Presbyterian Church in 1848,

Peddie's grandfather the Rev Dr James Peddie of Bristo Church,

Edinburgh having been Moderator of the Burgher Synod from 1789. He

presided over the split between the Rev Dr John Brown's 'Old Light'

Burghers and his own 'New Light' Burghers in 1799.

The Rev Dr James

Peddie married twice, his first marriage being to Margaret Coventry,

which brought a link by marriage with the civil and railway engineers

Benjamin Hall Blyth and Edward Lawrence Blyth which was to be

important later. His second marriage to Barbara Smith, daughter of

Lord Provost Donald Smith of the private bank Donald Smith & Company,

brought a significant range of business connections. Like his twin

brother William, John Dick Peddie was originally intended for a legal

career, their eldest brother James having become a civil engineer.

John and William attended Edinburgh University from 1839 but in 1842

their careers diverged when John was allowed to become an architect

and was articled to David Rhind. While there he entered the

competition for the National Bank buildings in Queen Street, Glasgow,

in 1844 and, although he probably did not know it at the time, his

design reached the final selection, that ultimately chosen being by

Charles Barry's assistant John Gibson.

In 1845 he established his own

independent practice at his father's house at 36 Albany Street and was

successful at once, deservedly winning the competition for the Synod

Hall (although the influence of his father and his uncle by marriage

Professor the Rev Dr James Harper must have helped) and that for the

proposed Gilmorehill Cemetery in Glasgow which was not built.

In 1848 Peddie moved his practice to 1 George Street, the office of his uncle, Donald Smith Peddie, a chartered accountant, and from there he won the first of

several poorhouse competitions, that for South Leith, and was involved in

the design of the Caledonian Station through his Blyth cousins, then

senior assistants with Grainger & Miller, probably following the

railway's dispute with Sir William Tite over non-payment of fees.

In 1849 the Peddie family bought Lauriston Park, commencing Peddie's

long-running involvement with Chalmers Street and Chalmers Hospital, and

in the same year he made a feuing plan for Laverock Bank, where his

grandmother and his uncle Donald Smith Peddie had their house, an area he

was to develop speculatively for villas. He then seems to have taken a

short career break, leaving an assistant, David Jamieson, in charge of

the office: in the autumn of 1850, or just possibly rather earlier,

c. 1844-45, he made an extensive continental tour which embraced

Constantinopl e, Prague, Munich and Regensburg. His visits there were

mentio ned in h

is lecture 'On the Architectural Features of Edinburgh' given on 12

February 1851 to the Architectural Institute of Scotland of which he had

been one of the founder members in 1850.

This tour brought about a lifelong interest in contemporary German architecture and theology which was to lead to his sons being educated at Elberfeld. On 21 July 1851 Peddie married Euphemia Lockhart More, the daughter of James Stephen More

and a descendant of the Rev George More of South Shields, co-founder with

the Rev Dr James Peddie of the Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers, a

pension fund which helped finance some of Peddie's early property

investments. They set up house and office at 10 Nelson Street, which was

rented. Through his father-in-law Peddie secured the business of the Royal

Bank of Scotland which established a branch network between 1854 and 1857,

nearly all of the buildings being designed by Peddie. All were built in a

stylish eye-catching palazzo form, and monogrammed, bringing the practice a nationwide reputation.

It became UK-wide when he added a new telling room to the head office in 1857, a project reported and illustrated in 'The Builder' on 21 May 1859. Concurrently

with these developments at the Royal Bank Peddie and his civil engineer

brother James promoted the Edinburgh High Street and Railway Access

Company's proposals for the formation of Cockburn Street, first mooted in

1851, and made more feasible by the Limited Liability Act of 1855. For

this the Improvement Act of 1827 had set the precedent of 'Old Scots or

Flemish' for Old Town developments. That and over-commitment on Royal

Bank business induced him to take a partner skilled in 'Old Scots' who

also had some capital to inject into the rapidly expanding practice.

Peddie's choice fell on Charles George Hood Kinnear, born at Kinloch,

Fife on 30 May 1830, the second son of Charles Kinnear of Kinnear and

Kinloch and a member of the banking family Thomas Kinnear & Company.

His mother was Christian Jane Greenshields, only child of the wealthy

Edinburgh advocate John Boyd Greenshields who had married Jane Boyd,

heiress to the small Dunbartonshire estate of Drum and adopted her

name as an additional surname. Charles Kinnear was educated privately

with his elder brother, the London advocate, politician and radical

journalist John Boyd Kinnear whom he followed to Edinburgh University

prior to being articled to David Bryce, than of Burn & Bryce in 1849;

his home address was then his Greenshields grandmother's house at 125

Princes Street. Peddie appears to have recruited him on a part-time

basis late in 1853 or early in 1854 when his handwriting appears on

the detail sheets for the Sir Michael Street Church in Greenock, but

by that date he was already undertaking study tours, sketches still in the possession of the family showing that he was in Palermo on 9 March 1853 and Pisa on 13 December 1854. Shortly after returning home from the second tour he set

up his own household at 17 Alva Street and commenced an independent

practice which seems to have consisted only of improvements on the

Kinnear and Kinloch estates.

After less than two years as Peddie's assistant he was made a partner, apparently on 1 January 1856 although his RIBA nomination form gives 1855, probably the date of the partnership agreement. Thereafter Kinnear appears to have taken charge of the drawing office, Burn & Bryce drawing office methods being consistently adopted

with nearly all the drawings signed in Kinnear's handwriting. By the

time the partnership had been formed, Kinnear had become deeply

interested in photography, perhaps through his former master David Bryce,

who was also a pioneer photographer. Together with the architect David

MacGibbon and Sir David Brewster, Bryce and Kinnear co-found ed the P

hotographic Society of Scotland in 1856, Brewster being president and

Kinnear secretary. In the same year Kinnear made a photographic study tour

which embraced Milan; and in the following year, 1857, he invented the

first bellows camera, which was made for him by a Mr Bell of Potterrow. He

took it on a study tour of northern France, followed by another in

Germany.

Kinnear was able to make these study tours through

inheritance. When he came of age in 1852 he fell heir to a large number of

Edinburgh properties from his Greenshields grandfather, and on the death

of his grandmother in 1856 he also came into full possession of 125

Princes Street and the estate of Drum. One of these houses, 12 Howe

Street, provided the larger premises the partnership required. Family

connections were reinforced by volunteer connections from 1859 onwards

when he joined the First Midlothian County (Midlothian Coast) Artillery

Volunteer Brigade. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in July 1860 and

quickly rose to become captain of the Portobello battery, then second

major, and as senior major one of the three officers who financed the

building of the regimental headquarters in Grindlay Street in 1866.

From the very beginning the partnership was hugely successful as

commissions for major public buildings and churches flowed in: Dublin

Street Baptist Church in Edinburgh in 1856; the Scottish Provident

Institute in Edinburgh, where Donald Smith Peddie was on the board, in

1858; Morrison's Academy in Crieff in 1859; and Morgan's Hospital in

Dundee in 1860. They also had considerable success in competitions,

winning that for Sydney Place UP Church in Glasgow in 1857 and coming

second for the Wallace Monument and St Mary's Free Church, Edinburgh in

1858, the design for the latter being realised at Pilrig Free Church in

the same city in 1860. In the following year, 1861, they won that for

Aberdeen Sheriff Court, which grew into the much larger municipal

buildings project in the following year. The single major disappointment was t he reconstruction and enlargement of the Bank of Scotland Head Office in

Edinburgh, commissioned by the Treasurer Alexander Blair in the autumn of

1859 but retrieved by David Bryce from his successors after Kinnear was

instructed to seek his opinion on their designs.

Peddie & Kinnear were, however, given all of the bank's provincial branch business, and after initially building some relatively simple Italianate structures, Kinnear

followed David MacGibbon's lead in adopting a Scots vernacular idiom as

the bank's house style for new construction. This greatly increased volume

of business required a larger office, 3 South Charlotte Street being

bought for the purpose in 1866. It also led to a marked increase in

Peddie's social standing, expressed first in a large terrace house at 21

Claremont Crescent, built in 1860 and then in a much grander one at 33

Buckingham Terrace, built along with number 34 in 1866. Not long

thereafter he also rented from the Countess of Seafield the estate of

Muckrach in Inverness-shire, primarily for the fishing. Election as ARSA

followed in 1868, and full academician and treasurer only two years

later. The Academy was to become a showcase for his ambitious proposals

for Princes Street, an interest which seems to have stemmed from his

North British Station and Waverley Market competition designs of 1866

and the unbuilt Caledonian Hotel scheme of 1868, the biggest

disappointment of Peddie's career.

To keep their office continuously employed, Peddie & Kinnear began building speculatively in Edinburgh from the mid-1860s, taking over the Grosvenor Crescent section of Robert Matheson's West Coates development and extending it into Palmerston Place. This sold well and with a relative dearth of commissions for

public buildings, now increasingly determined by open competition, the

partners set about creating new business through property, hydropathic

and hotel companies in which they and a select circle of business

associates were the major shareholders, a tactic made less hazardous by the Li

mited Liability Act of 1855 and the Companies Act of 1862.

The first of these were the Heritable Securities Association and the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company, founded in 1862 and 1864 respectively, followed by the

Craiglockhart Estates Company in 1873 and a number of smaller companies.

Nearly all of these were managed by the Edinburgh chartered accountant

Alexander Thomas Niven. Their authorised capital was not fully paid up,

the balance being met by advertising for funds on deposit at interest

rates of 3 to 4 %. Initially these companies were primarily concerned with

housing developments, but when the Caledonian Railway moved the site of

its proposed Central Station to the eastern side of Hope Street, the

Blythswoodholm Building Company, backed by the Scottish Lands and

Buildings Company, took over the original site on the west side for a

major hotel and shopping arcade development. In this project Peddie

realised some of the ideas in the unbuilt schemes for St Enoch Station

in Glasgow and the North British and Caledonian Hotels in Edinburgh, but

with Alexander Thomson-based elevations.

By 1877 the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company had become overstretched as costs escalated and

disposed of its interest to the Scottish Heritable Securities Company.

Further capital was raised but in 1878 the City of Glasgow Bank crashed.

This provoked a prolonged recession and in 1879 the Caledonian Railway

decided to convert its offices into an hotel, bringing about the

liquidation of the Blythswood Building Company and of the Scottish

Heritable Securities Company in 1882 when a £70, 000 bond was called in.

Kinnear's Scottish Lands and Buildings Company also went into

liquidation, but it was a voluntary one and it somehow managed to remain

solvent. Peddie & Kinnear's other property companies fared no better as

a result of the recession and the withdrawal of loan capital: calls for

capital from companies which no longer had a value were to plague both

partners to the end of their lives.

The partners similarly incurred heavy losses in their two large

hydropathic developments: Dunblane, where the company was formed in

1874, and Craiglockhart, a by-product of the Craiglockhart Estates

Company, formed in 1877. At Callander, where they acted as consultants

to the Stirling architect and civil engineer Francis Mackison in

1878-80, they were careful to avoid subscribing any capital. All three

hydropathics failed in 1884 and were sold to hoteliers: the only one

to survive was Shandon where the capital cost had been kept low by

buying the existing mansion by John Thomas Rochead for a fraction of

its original cost. In 1878 the Peddie & Kinnear practice briefly

became Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie with the return to the office of John

More Dick Peddie. Born in Edinburgh on 21 August 1853 and educated at

the Edinburgh Academy from 1864 to 1868 followed by two years at the

Real Schule Elberfeld, he entered the science faculty at Edinburgh

University in 1870 while on a short articled apprenticeship with his father. He then obtained a place in the office of George Gilbert Scott, returning to the office in 1875 as an assistant after a grand tour which took him as far south as Sicily.

After his return the practice's church work took on an English Gothic

rather than the continental Romanesque which had characterised his

father's.

When John More Dick Peddie became a partner the practice was

also joined by Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie, born in

Edinburgh on 7 November 1865 and educated at Fettes College. He may have

been less academically minded than Peddie's other sons: he did not go to

Elberfeld and of all Peddie's sons he was the only one not to go to

university, signing drawings at the early age of fourteen.

In 1879 Peddie withdrew from the practice at the age of fifty-five. He did not

become a retired Academician, thereby blocking the election of both

Kinnear and his son, and retained his membership by exhibiting old pr

ojects. Although it has been stated that he retired to enter p olitics,

it was at least as much to repair the family fortunes and provide for his

unmarried sisters and daughters by becoming a fund manager. His sisters

were a particular problem to him as his unmarried brother James had never

had a particularly successful business and his father had somehow lost

his money, probably through acting as a 'cautioner'. He had had to sell

the house his son built for him in Lansdowne Crescent in 1867 and become

his son's tenant and pensioner in Chalmers Street.

Preparations for Peddie's change of career appear to have been made for more than a decade

as he had been building up directorships since at least the mid-1860s,

and in May 1875 he bought Veitch's Hotel at 122 George Street, Edinburgh

in partnership with the solicitor William John Menzies, converting it

into shops and offices to provide a steady income stream from rents. To

achieve this they borrowed £12, 000 from the Earl of Moray and £5, 000 from

the vendors, but after a very few years these bond s became a problem

and after some re-mortgaging Peddie bought out Menzies's interest in

1884. Although several architectural practices took chambers in this

building it is doubtful if it ever produced much of a net income after

servicing the bonds. Peddie secured the Liberal nomination for

Kilmarnock burghs in 1878 and won the seat on the Disestablishment issue

on 8 April 1880 despite the splitting of the vote by an unofficial

pro-Establishment Liberal candidate.

At Westminster he represented the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings' interests as well as the Disestablishment interest. On the first day of each parliamentary session he gave notice of his intention to introduce a resolution to implement disestablishment. Although initially unsuccessful he hired halls in every

sizeable town in Scotland to whip up interest and on 23 June 1884 he

eventually won a place in the ballot and exchanged his resolution for a

private members' bill introduced on 24 October 18 84. The bill never

came to a vote. Peddie's business interests had taken him on a voyage round the world. It must have been a welcome absence.

The reputation and financial circumstances of the entire Peddie

family had been compromised by Peddie's chartered accountant uncle Donald

Smith Peddie and making money had become even more important than it had

been. As a result of the divorce action by one of his clients his uncle

had fled to the USA in November 1882 and was found to have liabilities of

£75, 000 and realisable assets of £4, 565, chiefly represented by the house

Peddie had built for him in Trinity. Peddie's £800 bond on that property

was amongst those 'left out of view' and the Peddie family had to

subscribe heavily towards the £25, 940 missing from the accounts of the

Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers which he had been raiding since

at least 1845.

Peddie's interest in overseas investment dated back to

at least 1873. Together with Sir George Warrender, Edward Blyth, Thomas

Nelson and others he was a founder of the Scottish Ame

rican Trust of which James A Roosevelt was one of the American directors.

Peddie's remit was to advise on property investment and Blyth's on

railroads, and following the Trust's decision not to hold property

directly, the Peddies formed the Scottish American Land Company in 1880,

Peddie's third son William, born 27 March 1859, being sent out to

Emmetsburg in 1883 to assist Alexander Peddie, who was an uncle already

resident in Iowa. Peddie's other American interests included the United

States Mortgage Company of Scotland and after he became an MP he bought a

large shareholding in James L Lombard's American and General Mortgage and

Investment Corporation Ltd, of which he became a director. Along with

other members of the family he subscribed to the formation of the

Scottish and New Zealand Company in 1877 and to the Colonial and

Investment Company of New Zealand: he was a director of both of these and

for a time chairman of one of them.

Peddie and his wife set off for Aus tralia and New Zealand in the autumn of 1885 to inspect these operations, but a crisis of confidence amongst the American and Canadian shareholders led him to cut short his visit to Australasia and sail for

the United States. Somewhere on the voyage Euphemia died and her body was

brought home for burial in Dean Cemetery on 31 December. Early in the New

Year he returned to Australia, in March he met Lombard to look at the

operations in Kansas, and in April he returned home to report to his

several boards.

Peddie's parliamentary seat was lost in his absence because of the split Liberal vote in November 1885. The Conservatives won by 293 votes and despite a request from Gladstone to stand again in July 1886 he declined: in his son Coventry's words, he had 'not the wherewithal' as a result of heavy borrowing to finance his New Worlds

investments. The zenith of his business career came in July 1887 when he

became first chairman of the hugely successful Scottish Investment Trust

formed by his solicitor brother's firm Peddie & Ivory. But two years

later he took one final gamble by investing in Pollok Patents and two

related companies, the Grass Valley Gold Company in the USA and the

Australian Gold Extracting Company, all three of which were linked to

Peddie & Ivory's Scottish Investment Trust and Second Scottish

Investment Trust. These briefly brought him a very large income in

director's fees but the processes on which these companies were based

proved uneconomic. He did not live to see their collapse in 1892-94 as

he had become seriously ill in 1890 and had to resign all his

directorships. An operation was carried out early in 1891 but he died on

12 March, leaving moveable assets of £26, 432 2s 10d, liabilities of

£10, 002 13s 0d, his houses in Buckingham Terrace and Chalmers Street and

the heavily mortgaged office building at 122 George Street. His net

moveable estate was calculated at £16, 429 9s 10d but because of bonds

the net worth of his property interests is difficult to guess. (See

separate entry on Kinnear & Peddie for the continued history of the practice after Pe

ddie's withdrawal. )

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this

architect: Address Type Date from Date to Notes 36, Albany Street,

Edinburgh, Scotland Business 1845 1848 1, George Street, Edinburgh,

Scotland Business 1848 1856(?) 12, Howe Street, Edinburgh, Scotland

Business 1856 1866 21, Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland Private

1860 33, Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland Private 1866 3, South

Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland Business 1866 1879

Employment and Training

Employers

The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this

architect (click on an item to view details): Name Date from Date to

Position Notes Peddie & Kinnear 1 January 1856 1878 Partner Peddie,

Kinnear & Peddie 1878 1879 Partner David Rhind 1842 1845 Apprentice

In 1881 John was visiting London, staying at Pall Mall.

Jno. D. PEDDIE Household

Male

Birth Year

Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland

Age 57

Occupation Architect

Marital Status M

Head of Household Jno. BENNETT

Relation Lodger

Dwelling 12 Pall Mall

Census Place London, Middlesex, England

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Page Number 4

Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace

Occupation Disability Jno. BENNETT Head M Male 74 Soberton, Hampshire,

England Lodging House Keeper Jane BENNETT Wife M Female 54 Bridgetown,

Devon, England (DEAN OF DURHAM) Lodger U Male 64 St Georges Hanover

Sq, Middlesex, England Clergyman Jno. D. PEDDIE Lodger M Male 57

Edinburgh, Scotland Architect Alf. ILLINGWORTH Lodger M Male 54

Bradford, York, England Worsted Spinner (Lord) CARNEGIE Other U Male

26 Scotland Retired Capt In Army

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magnificent banking hall. . Further internal changes were made to Dundas

House by William Burn in 1836. His plans necessitated the removal of the

original staircase from the vestibule, along with the floor between the

vestibule and the room above, in order to create a new, high entrance

hall with twin stairs ascending to an east landing. By the mid-nineteenth

century, the growth of the Bank’s business at 36 St Andrew Square was so

marked as to demand the creation of further accommodation. In 1857 John

Dick Peddie, of the Edinburgh architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear, was

commissioned by the Bank to redesign the head office entirely. Peddie’s

plans were approved by the board in March 1858. His design respected

Chambers’ exterior, but Burn’s stair hall was made into the present

vestibule, with a first floor landing and superimposed Greek, Ionic and

Corinthian screens of coupled columns. The original stairwell was once

again opened up to create a square, two-storey hall with fish-scale

coving. A new stair with a Rococo ceiling was built to the north of the

hall together with a library and rooms for book and plate safes. On the

east side of Dundas House Peddie removed Chambers’ bow, rebuilt the

north-east wing and added the banking hall on the main axis. The hall

took three years to complete and was sixty feet square, with fifteen by

thirty feet recesses to the west and east ends. Each recess was crowed by

a semi-circular arch. Corresponding arches were formed in the side walls.

The room was surmounted by a large dome, which sprang from the same level

as the arches of the recesses. The spandrils, formed by the intersection

of the dome and side walls, had, in the centre, large circular

compartments occupied by figures representing Commerce, Agriculture,

Navigation and the Arts. The spandrils and the rest of the dome were

separated by an ornamental band or golosche. The dome was made up of five

concentric tiers of glazed stars, twenty-four in each tier. The new

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Peddie and Charles G. H. Kinnear Pilkington was not the only Edinburgh

architect to cater for those with robust tastes. John Dick Peddie and

Charles G. H. Kinnear, better known as classical and baronial designers

respectively, were responsible for Pilrig Free Church, Edinburgh, with its

tall spire, double transepts with aggressive mincer plate tracery in the

Samuel Sanders Tuelon manner, built in 1861-63. Of the same family, but

plainer, is their Hope Park United Presbyterian Church, St. Andrews of

1864. In the following decade, Peddie and Kinnear were responsible for a

number of Germanic Romanesque churches of which Bonnygate Unite

Presbyterian at Cupar ( 1876 ) and East Linton Free ( 1879 ) survive.

Whether or not these churches reflect the fact that both architects were

indefatigable continental travellers, or the completion of the

architectural education of the younger Peddie, John More Dick Peddie, in

Germany is difficult to say.

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Children of JOHN PEDDIE and EUPHEMIA MORE are:

i. JOHN MORE DICK PEDDIE, b. 1853, c: 9 OCT 1853 in Bristo Associate

Congregation, Edinburgh.

Notes for JOHN MORE DICK PEDDIE: In 1878 the Peddie & Kinnear practice

briefly became Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie with the return to the office of

John More Dick Peddie. Born in Edinburgh on 21 August 1853 and educated at

the Edinburgh Academy from 1864 to 1868 followed by two years at the Real

Schule Elberfeld, he entered the science faculty at Edinburgh University

in 1870 while on a short articled apprenticeship with his father. He then

obtained a place in the office of George Gilbert Scott, returning to the

office in 1875 as an assistant after a grand tour which took him as far

south as Sicily. After his return the practice's church work took on an

English Gothic rather than the continental Romanesque which had

characterised his father's. When John More Dick Peddie became a partner

the practice was also joined by Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick

Peddie, born in Edinburgh on 7 November 1865 and educated at Fettes

College. He may have been less academically minded tha

n Peddie's other sons: he did not go to Elberfeld and of all Peddie's

sons he was the only one not to go to university, signing drawings at the

early age of fourteen.

ii. CATHERINE HELEN LOCKHART PEDDIE, b. 1856, b: 30 JAN 1856 in

Edinburgh, Scotland. iii. JAMES PEDDIE, b. b: 25 AUG 1857 in

Edinburgh, Scotland. iv. WILLIAM DICK-PEDDIE, b. 1859, b: 27 MAR 1859 in

Edinburgh, Scotland; d. 1950, died JUN 1950 in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa

USA. ; m. ALICE BARBEE MCGRORTY, 11 Nov 1886, Kansas; b. Abt. 1860, born 1

DEC 1860 in Kansas, ; d. 1914, died 27 OCT 1914 in Iowa. .

Notes for WILLIAM DICK-PEDDIE:

# Birth: 27 MAR 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland

# Death: JUN 1950 in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa USA

# Note: Christened William Dick Peddie, appears to have adopted the

# Dick-Peddie form in USA.

Palo Alto Pilot Friday, 26 Feb 1892 MATTERS PERSONAL. : Wm.

DICK-PEDDIE and family have moved into the BURLINGAME residence, in

Carl's addition. William (Dick) Peddie was married to Alvin L.

Ormsby's wifes sister, Alice Barbee McGrorty.

From Polk's Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory 1922-1923

Ormsby A Scott, Wm Dick-Peddie Mrg, Real Estate and General Insurance,

Tel 57 Ormsby Land & Mortgage Co, A Scott Ormsby pres

William Dick Peddie Nine hours after the death of Mrs. Daisy

VanGorden, Emmetsburg, her 91-year-old father, William Dick Peddie,

also passed away. The elderly man had suffered a stroke a few days

previously and died without knowing that his daughter, who made her

home with him, had preceded him. June 29, 1950 Morning Sun

News-Herald - page 5

More notes. . . . McGrorty. . . James Joseph McGrorty. . . . Iowa First Marriage:

Nov, 11, 1886, William (Dick) Peddie. . . . at 3 o'clock, by the Rector,

Rev. HD Martin, and the interment will be made in

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Notes for ALICE BARBEE MCGRORTY:

# Birth: 1 DEC 1860 in Kansas

# Death: 27 OCT 1914 in Iowa

# Note: notes of relatives:

Death notice in newspaper: "News has been received here of the death

of Mrs. Eva McGrorty Ormsby, widow of A. L. Ormsby, which occurred

Friday in Boston, Mass. She was a daughter of the late Capt. A. S.

McGrorty, of Danville, and a sister of Mrs. W. E. Bryce, formerly of

Shelbyville but now residing in Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Bryce was with her

sister during her last illness. Mrs. Ormsby was seventy-six years of

age and leaves one son and two daughters. The body was taken to

Emmettsburg, Iowa, her former home, for burial. " . . . . of her son, Mr.

Scott Ormsby in Boston, Mass. , last Friday, took place Tuesday in

Emmettsburg, Iowa, where Mrs. Ormsby's husband was buried many years

ago. Mrs. Ormsby was seventy-six years of age. She was a native of

Danville and had many friends here among the older citizens. She was a

daughter of the late Capt. A. S. McGrorty, who located in Danville

almost a hundred years ago. At his death about ten years ago Capt.

McGrorty was ninety-six years of age. For many, many years he was

engaged in the drug business here. During the great fire of 1860 Capt.

McGrorty's store was burned. McGrorty street was named in his honor,

but changed to the Old Wilderness Road as it marks the trail of the

pioneers who settled Perryville and later Harrodsburg. The McGrorty

addition to Danville was formerly owned by Capt. McGrorty who was

greatly beloved by a host of friends. Danville where she was reared

and most affectionately remembered as Miss Rose Evermonde McGrorty.

Capt. McGrorty

was a native of Northern Ireland but came to the United States in his

youth and settled in Danville when avery young man. He lived here about

eighty years and was responsible for many forward steps in the town of

Danville. Mrs. Ormsby is survived by three children, Scott Ormsby, of

Boston; Mrs. Daisy O. Richards of Seattle, and Mrs. Alice Ormsby Adrian,

of Florence, Italy. Mrs. William E. Bryce, of Wooster, Ohio is a sister.

Capt. McGrotry Pine Grove was the home of Alexander Scott McGrorty -

corner of Main and McGrorty Ave. , now (1962) Wilderness Road,

Danville, Kentucky. The house was made into apartments which are back

of a corner gas station at Main and Wilderness Rd. A. S. McGrorty

built this home for his bride Rose Yeiser. In this house was born

Clara Lee McGrorty (Bryce) and Abbie Lee Bryce (Mishler), daughter of

Clara Lee. Abbie was born July 17, 1892. at His Home on East Main

Street Generations. yielded to the infirmities indicent to increasing

years and passed peacefully away at his home in this city this morning

at 12: 25 o'clock. 21st day of last May, reached the ninth-sixth

milestone on the journey of life. Coming to this country in 1837, the

following year 1838 he came to Danville to make his home and entered

business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry, who conducted a drug

store on the south-west corner of Main and Second streets (the old

Hendren corner, as it has sinc

e been known), and in 1840 he bought out this firm and remained in the

drug business in Danville continuously for fifty-seven years, with the

exception of a brief interruption caused by the great fire of 1860 and

the breaking out of the Civil War the year following, only retiring from

active business in 1897.

Mis Rose Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native of

Kentucky and a veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed

with nine children, two of whom survive him -- Mrs. A. L. Ormsby, of

Florence, Italy, and Mrs. Wm. E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio. He is also

survived by one brother, Mr. J. P. McGrorty, of Deming, New Mexico.

city and also one of the brightest Odd Fellows that ever become a

member of the Order. He was the oldest member of Trinity Episcopal

Church, and until recently, when debarred by the infirmities of age,

he was always in attendance at church services and was for many years

the Senior Warden of the Vestry. He was a man noted for his many noble

traits of character, and his passing -- full of years and full of

honors -- will be sincerely regretted by this whole community.

(Thursday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock, by the Rector, Rev. H. D. Martin,

and the interment will be made in Bellevue cemetery. Jackson, B. J.

Durham, Hubert McGoodwin and G.

W. Doneghy.

Kentucky Years Days readers of The Daily Advocate, especially some

of those who are now accustomed to gliding over the splendid turnpikes

of Boyle county in modern touring cars and runabouts, to learn

something of the actual contrast between the roads of Central Kentucky

as they were seventy-five years ago and as they are to-day, and also

to learn something of the earlier history of Danville, her business as

conducted then and the modes by which the people travelled at that

time, a reporter called upon Capt. A. S. McGrorty, at his residence,

corner of East Main and the avenue bearing his honoured name, last

Wednesday afternoon, and found this amiable and venerable gentleman in

the best of health and spirits and with his remarkable mind and

faculties apparently unimpaired by the flight of years, and graciously

willing to impart all the information at this command that was desired

upon the subject.

before he had seen the realization of one of his most oft-expressed

desires---that he might be spared to see the inauguration of another

Democratic President. Together with the photographs of his children

and his grandchildren, he proudly pointed to a large picture of

William Jennings Bryan, sent to him by the Great Commoner himself two

years ago, with his autograph inscribed by his own hand underneath,

and which the Captain treasures very highly indeed. spared, will,

on the 21st day of May, 1913, have reached the ninety-fifth milestone

on the journey of life.

Coming to this country in 1837, the following

year (1838) he came to Danville to make his home, his route to this

place being over the then only completed turnpike in the State--the

one leading from Louisville to Frankfort, Harrodsburg, Danville and

Crab Orchard--the mode of conveyance being the stage coach. In this

same year he entered business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry,

who conducted a drug store

on the south-west corner of Main and Second streets (the old Hendren

corner, as it has since been known), and in 1840 he bought out this firm

and remained in the drug business in Danville continuously for

fifty-seven years, with the exception of a brief interruption caused by

the great fire of 1869 and the breaking out of the Civil War the year

following, only retiring from active business in 1897.

to Miss Rose Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native

of Kentucky and a veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed

in the birth of nine children, three of whom are still living--Mrs. A.

L. Ormsby, of Florence, Italy; Mrs. Wm. E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio,

and Mrs. Wm. Dick-Peddie, of Emmettsburg, Iowa,

were all dirt roads and the vehicles then in use were mostly

two-wheeled gigs, wagons and carts. The merchants here had blocks and

hitching rails in front of their establishments for the accommodation

of lady customers who came to town on horseback, and that he supposed

that if such an undreamed-of thing as an aeroplane, an electric car,

an automobile or a motorcycle had hove in sight the people no doubt

would have been frightened to death. and south-eastern Kentucky,

and long lines of wagons could sometimes be seen from these districts

standing upon the Main street of town, loaded with tar, apple and

peach brandies, tow linen, rag carpets, etc. , brought to barter for

drugs, dry goods, groceries, implements and other commodities.

Philadelphia for the purchase of goods, the route being on horseback

to Pittsburgh, from thence to Brownsville, Pa. , by boat, thence by

stage over the mountains to Cumberland, Md. , which was the terminus of

a railroad from Baltimore. there was of course no telegraphic mode of

communication--no, not even a telephone The mails were carried by a

few stage lines and on the backs of horses. by the late Gen. Speed

S. Fry, in 1842, and when, in 1846, its captain organized another

company and took it to Mexico, Captain McGrorty was chosen as the

commandant of the former, thus acquiring his military title. The date

of the organization of the first company mentioned was the same as

that in which Boyle county was constituted, and the military company

participated in a grand celebration of that event. his long life a

member of the Episcopal church, and for the past fifty years the

Senior Warden of Trinity Church, this city. visit this coming summer

by his daughter and his grand children in Italy, and it is sincerely

hoped for him by all his warmly-attached friends in the community that

is may be realized and that they find him still enjoying his

remarkable good health.

After a Lingering Illness. to his reward on

Wednesday night, after a protracted illness due to the infirmities of

age. While he had reached the ninety-sixth milestone in life, yet his

health was remarkably good until the past year, when he began to fail.

He was a man of broad mind and charitable instincts, and always ready

to do everything in his power for the betterment of Danville, both

morally and in a business way. Coming to this country in 1837, the

following year he came to Danville to make his home, and entered

business here with the firm of Montgomery & Fry, who conducted a drug

store on the southwest corner of Main and Second streets (the old

Hendren corner, as it has since been known), and in 1840 he bought out

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his firm and remained in the drug business in Danville continuously for

fifty-seven years, with the exception of a brief interruption caused by

the great fire of 1860 and the breaking out of the Civil was the year

following, only retiring from active business in 1897. to Miss Rose

Bradford Yeiser, daughter of Frederick Yeiser, a native of Kentucky and a

veteran of the War of 1812, which union was blessed with nine children,

two of whom survive him--Mrs. A. L. Ormsby, of Florence, Italy, and Mrs.

William E. Bryce, of Ashland, Ohio. He is also survived by one brother,

Mr. J. P. McGroty, of Deming, New Mexico. devoted and tireless worker

therein. He was respected by all who knew him and his upright life is an

example worthy of following. When a young man he was deeply interested in

military affairs, formed a company in Danville, and this organization

attended the burial of Daniel Boone.

His life was filled with good and noble deeds, and those who knew him best will never forge t his many acts of kindness. Danville, and likewise a devoted member of the Odd Fellows lodge. These bodies attended the funeral, which was

conducted at Trinity Episcopal church, yesterday afternoon, by Rev. H. D.

Marin, the rector, the burial following at Bellevue cemetery. o'clock

after a short illness. She was in the eighty-first year of her age and had

been a member of the Episcopal church nearly all her life. Her husband,

Capt. A. S. McGrorty, was engaged in the drug business here for more than

forty years, and is well known throughout Central Kentucky. The funeral

will take place this afternoon at three o'clock at Trinity Episcopal

church, and will be conducted by Rev. Frank E. Cooley, rector of St.

Philip's Episcopal church at Harrodsburg Mrs. McGrorty was a daughter of

Mr. Frederick Yeiser, a pioneer settler of Danville, and was born and

spent all her life on the place where she died. She is survived by her

husband and three daughters, as follows: Mrs. A. L. Ormsby and Mrs.

William Dick-Peddie, of Emmettsburg, Iowa, and Mrs. William

E. Bryce, of Shelbyville. Mrs. McGrorty was a good Christian woman and

fully prepared for death. The sympathy of the community is extended her

aged companion in his bereavement.

Alexander Scott McGrorty married Rose Barbee Yeiser Oct. 24, 1842. She

was the daughter of Frederick Yeiser and Lucinda Bradford. He was born

May 21, 1820 in Raphoe, County Donegal, Ireland, died 1915 in

Danville, Kentucky.

SOURCE: (1) Howard Yeiser. "Store & Druggist, Danville. "

(2) Fackler, Calvin Morgan, "Early Days in Danville, " The Standard

Printing Co. , Louisville, KY, 1941, Second Printing Dec. 1966, p. 259.

Extraction: Came to America in 1837 at age seventeen from Ireland. Ran

an apothecary for years and participated in many ways to help

Danville, Boyle, Kentucky thrive. "Captain" McGrorty became a fixture

in our town where he was to live until nearly a centenarian. The

'Captain' is real, as he once organized a local military company. His

own business dates as far back as 1941, his ad appearing in the

Clarion of October 6th, that year. He was a dedicated Episcopalian,

serving as vestryman at Trinity for seventy-fou years.

Rose Barbee Yeiser

Ref: Early Days in Danville by Calvin Morgan Fackler 1941, lists

Rose's marriage and full name of her husband. Marriage was done by

Rev. John Alexander Adams, presbyter of the Episcopal Church, Diocese

of Ky.

SOURCE: (1) Howard Yeiser, Tucson, AZ. Built Home "The Pines" in

Danville. (2) Fackler, Calvin Morgan, "Early Days in Danville, " The

Standard Printing Co. , Louisville, KY, 1941, Second Printing Dec.

1966. , p. 260. Captain McGrorty "married Miss Rose, daughter of

Frederick Yeiser, and in 1843 he built "The Pines, " the roomy old

dwelling which stood at Main and the Wilderness Road. It still stands,

but now so enveloped by the 'McGrorty Apartments' as to be

undistinguishable. The Pines faced Main while the remodeled building

fronts east. "

v. ELIZA MORE PEDDIE, b. b: 17 APR 1862 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

vi. COVENTRY DICK PEDDIE, b. 1863, Birth: 2 DEC 1863 in

Edinburgh, Scotland. vii. WALTER PEDDIE MORE PEDDIE, b. b: 7 NOV 1865 in

Edinburgh, Scotland. viii. ALEXANDER LOUIS PEDDIE, b. b: 10 SEP 1869 in

Edinburgh, Scotland.

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?5 PEDDIE . came from the Eastern Cape. . They owner the Pig 'n Whistle

Hotel in Bathurst. Established in 1832, the Pig ‘n Whistle was built by

1820s settler Thomas Hartley and today looks pretty much the same as it

did back then. a. It back to 1831, the oldest Pub in South Africa situated

some 16 kms from Port Alfred on the Sunshine Coast the Bathurst Inn , as

a Blacksmith’s forge, in 1831 by Thomas Hartley. The name “Pig ‘n Whistle”

comes from WWII, when South African Air Force pilots were based and

trained at the nearby 43 Air School in Port Alfred. After settling in

Glumber in 1820, Thomas Hartley moved into Bathurst, building a dwelling

on Lot 8 next to his forge in 1825. The Inn was built in 1825. The Inn

was built next to the Forge, in which Thomas Hartley continued to run his

blacksmith business. Bathurst was geographically situated as a stopping

place for wagon travellers. There was a smithy, a farrier, provisions and

someone to extract a troublesome tooth. This was done by the blacksmith

with his pliers The Proprietor had such regard for the quality of hi s

guests that the rooms were described as “Subscription Rooms for

Gentlemen” and guests included Lord Charles Somerset, the Governor of the

Cape, and Sir Benjamin D’Urban. From 1832 surgeon Ambrose Campbell,

riding from Grahamstown, attended consultations on the first Saturday of

the month.

After Thomas Hartley’s death in 1840 his widow, Sarah, took

over the running of the Inn and made its hospitality famous. It was then

known as Widow Hartley’s Inn and visiting dignitaries and Government

officials sought accommodation at the Inn. In 1847 the Governor General,

Sir Henry Pottinger, stayed at the Inn and entertained the Chaplain, the

Magistrate and the Post Commander. In 1848 the Governor General, Sir

Harry Smith, stayed at the Inn. It also featured in a painting by renowned

19th century painter Thomas Baines. Thomas Baines made an oil painting of

the Inn and the Village during his visit in 1849 and this painting is now

in the Rhodesian archives.

Sarah Hartley died later in the year after

making the Inn famous in the colony during her peri od as pr

oprietor. After a brief term under Thomas Hartley junior, Jeremiah

Goldswain, another settler, bought the Inn in 1852. The original building

remains an integral part of the Inn. Part of the kitchen walls include a

portion of Thomas Hartley’s original dwelling. The Inn’s name was changed

to the Pig ‘ Whistle during WW ll when the Air Force was based at 43 Air

School in Port Alfred. After 170 years it has claim to genuine age which

cannot be made by scores of so called ‘Olde Time Inns’ worldwide.

Directions Address: 268 Kowie Road, Bathurst, South Africa

Take N2 to Grahamstown. Then road to Port Alfred. Bathurst is 43km from

Grahamstown. It has seen a number of distinguished historic guests

including Cape Governor Sir Charles Somerset, and Sir Harry Smith.

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