Ulster's Sons in White House
BELFAST.— Larg'e portraits ■ of • 12 famous statesmen of Ulster descent who became Presidents of the United States have been presented to the Municipal Art Gallery here. . The presentation has been made by a leading citizen of this town, Thomas M 'Cow'an, and the artist is also a Belfast man, Frank MeKelvey. The names of the former Presidents whose portraits are in the collection are: John Adams, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and WoodrOY Wilson. There is also a finely executed portrait drawing by Mr MeKelvey of Gen. Richard Montgomery, whose family hailed from County Derry. Northern Ireland feels she has undoubtedly played a great part in the development of the United States. John Fiske, the American historlan, in his account of the Ulster cplonists, has computed that between 1730 and 1770, more than half the Presbyterian population of Ulster went to America, where it f ormed more than one sixth of the entire population at the time of the Declaration of Independence.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 18
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