ABSTRACT
There were 48 SAE immigrants, 99 from the IAAG, and 14 from the SAA – a total of 161 men. In addition, two of the SAE founders, Henry Callender and Donald Smith Peddie, fled Scotland in the 1870s as a result of criminal activities in their professional practises.1 They probably immigrated to the US although no trace of this appears in American public records and they are therefore not included in this book. As previously mentioned, 16 UQ men are included, giving a total of 177 individuals.2 This overview examines the Scots immigrants from a variety of perspectives. The first analysis describes the group as a whole and its subsets, and establishes the size of the immigrant population from 1875 to 1914. The second analysis provides various observations of the immigrants’ background on entering the US (i.e. age, social class, birthplace, prior migration experience, and qualifications and experience. The third analysis looks at the residency of the immigrants in terms of permanence, length, marriage and family, and death. The final analysis contains various insights into the American experience of the immigrants (i.e. arrival cities, initial employment, subsequent careers, involvement with institutions, and examples of success in the US.
