Brig. Gen. James McCubbin Lingan

Brig. General James McCubbin Lingan

DAR Ancestor #: A070668
Service: MARYLAND
Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN
Birth: 5-31-1751 IN BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
Death: 8-28-1812 IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND
Service Source: HEITMAN, HIST REG OF OFFICERS OF THE CONT ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REV 1775-1783, P 352
Service Description: 1) ALSO SECOND LIEUTENANT, STEPHENSON'S MD & VA RIFLE REGT;
2) CAPTAIN, RAWLING'S CONTINENTAL REGT; PRISONER OF WAR

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General Lingan was born on 13 May 1751, and enlisted in the Continental Army on 13 July 1776, only nine days after the start of the Revolutionary War. He became a Lieutenant in the Rawlings Additional Regiment, but was captured at Fort Washington on 16 November 1776. Imprisoned in the hulk HMS Jersey, Lingan was initially kept in a cell in which he could neither lie down nor stand up. Approached by distant cousin Samuel Hood and offered £10,000 and a commission in the British Army if he agreed to switch sides in the conflict, Lingan was reported to have replied "I'll rot first." Later in his captivity, Lingan gained the reputation as a defender of prisoners' rights. On one occasion, Lingan defended the body of a recently deceased prisoner from guards who wanted to behead the corpse in order to make it fit into a small coffin.

Government Service

Following his release at the end of the war, Lingan was made Collector of the Port of Georgetown by George Washington personally and became a Brigadier General in the Maryland State Militia. He was also a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He built Prospect House, in Georgetown.

Throughout his life, Lingan was a strong advocate of the freedom of the press, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 spoke out in opposition to those who favored censorship. When the offices of the Baltimore Federal Republican were besieged and burnt by a mob angry at anti-war editorials run by the newspaper, Lingan protested at the act and sheltered the newspaper editor, Alexander Contee Hanson in Georgetown. On 17 July 1812, Hanson resumed printing the newspaper at new offices in Baltimore and another mob formed within hours, again storming the building and destroying the presses. Hanson, with Lingan, Henry Lee III and others who had hastened from Washington to try to calm the crowd, were arrested by local militia and taken to Baltimore jail in an attempt to calm the situation, but the crowd followed them to the prison and stormed the building. Lingan attempted to stop the mob by displaying a bayonet wound he had received in the Revolutionary War, but this only inflamed the crowd and Hanson, Lingan and Lee were severely beaten and left for dead. Hanson and Lee survived, although the latter was left partially blinded after hot wax was poured into his eyes. Lingan however died from his serious injuries.

Death and Burial

Brigadier General James McCubbin Lingan died of his injuries on 28 July 1812. He was buried at St. John's Church in Georgetown, at a funeral attended by thousands of mourners. George Washington Custis read the eulogy, praising Lingan's defense of free press and crying "Oh Maryland! Would that the waters of the Chesapeake could wash this foul stain from thy character!" Ninety-six years later, Lingan's remains were removed from the burial ground in Georgetown and transferred to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA. In an odd bit of irony, Arlington Cemetery had been established in 1864 on the grounds of the Arlington Plantation, the home of George Washington Parke Custis.

His wife, Janet Henderson Lingan, (1765-1832) is buried with him.
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James McCubbin Lingan (1751-1812) was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and subsequently a senior officer in the Maryland State Militia. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington early in the war and spent several years aboard a prison hulk. After independence, Lingan served as a government official in Georgetown. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Lingan was an outspoken advocate of freedom of the press and was murdered by a mob while defending the offices of an anti-war newspaper in Baltimore.

Although not a journalist himself, Lingan was believed to be part owner of the newspaper, and is now regarded as the first documented case in which an American journalist was killed in pursuit of his vocation.

"To sum Lingan up in a single sentence I should say: None loved his country better. Few served it so well."  

Family

James McCubbin Lingan

• Birth: 31 May 1751 in Harford, Maryland, USA
• Death: 28 August 1812 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States murdered by a Baltimore mob
• Father: Thomas Lingan MD b: ABT 1715
• Mother:Ann McCubbin b: ABT 1718

Married: 10 October 1780 to Janet Henderson b: 02 September 1765

Children

1. Nannah Ogden LINGAN b: 10 Jun 1782
2. Sarah LINGAN b: 1794
3. Ann Ogden LINGAN b: 26 Oct 1799
4. George LINGAN
5. James LINGAN

Ancestry

Misc: On the mother's side General Lingan's first American ancestor was John Maccubbin, of Scotland, Maccubbin being the phonetic rendering of the name MacAlpine, to which clan he belonged by right of descent from that Kenneth MacAlpine whose ancient race gave the Gaelic proverb: "The rocks, the devil, the MacAlpines." Their branch, being allied by marriage with the house of Breadalban, had refugeed into the clan Campbell after the battle of Glen Prewen, and Argyle was regarded as the head of the family. John Maccubbin appears on the "Maryland Calendar of Wills" as a testator of 1685, leaving his estate "Brampton" to his eldest son John (by his first wife) and "Wardrop" to his four sons by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll. The will of the latter is witnessed by Charles Carroll, Charles Carroll, Jr., and Mrs. Mary Carroll; and, as she owned a portion of the old estate known as the "Woodyard" there may have been some family connection with the Darnalls and Talbots as well. She was also the sole heiress of Mary Van Schweringen.*

Biographical Summary

American Revolutionary Officer. A native of Maryland, he enlisted in the Continental Army on July 13, 1776, and obtained a commission in the Continental Army, serving with the Rawlings Additional Regiment as a lieutenant. He fought at Long Island, York Island, and Fort Washington, where he was wounded, taken prisoner, and confined in the British prison ship Jersey. He was said to have contemptuously rebuffed overtures from the British, in which they offered him a great deal of money if he would turn coat. After repatriation at war's end, he returned to Maryland where was made Collector of the Port of Georgetown, and became a Brigadier-General in the Maryland State Militia. During the War of 1812, a Baltimore newspaper, the 'Federal Republican and Commercial Gazette,' produced anti-war editorials considered so inflammatory that an opposing mob marched on its offices, smashed the printing presses, broke all the windows, and pulled the entire building to the ground with grappling hooks, ropes, and axes. Weeks later, the newspaper's opinionated editor, Alexander Hanson, and a group of armed friends, including Lingan, returned to Baltimore where they barricaded themselves in a building on South Charles Street. By nightfall, rioters had surrounded them, and the authorities persuaded the Federalist group to surrender to them, so they might remove them to the Baltimore City jail. The mob moved on the jail and Lingan and his cohorts were "beat enough to satisfy the devil," and tarred with boiling pitch. Although Hanson lived through the ordeal, his defender, Lingan did not. The 61 year old died of injuries sustained by the following morning. Although not a journalist himself, Lingan was believed to be part owner of the newspaper, and is now regarded as the first documented case in which an American journalist was killed in pursuit of his vocation. He was originally buried in a private cemetery in Washington, but his remains were moved to Section 1-89 A of Arlington National Cemetery on November 5, 1908. In 1996, his name was the first of 934 names of journalists killed on the job, engraved on the Journalists Memorial in Rosslyn, Virginia.

Biography

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lingan

Lingan enlisted in the Continental Army on July 13, 1776, only nine days after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He became a lieutenant in the Rawlings Additional Regiment, but was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. Imprisoned in the hulk HMS Jersey, Lingan was initially kept in a cell in which he could neither lie down nor stand up. Approached by distant cousin Samuel Hood and offered £10,000 and a commission in the British Army if he agreed to switch sides in the conflict, Lingan was reported to have replied "I'll rot first". Later in his captivity, Lingan gained the reputation as a defender of prisoners' rights. On one occasion, Lingan defended the body of a recently deceased prisoner from guards who wanted to behead the corpse to make it fit into a small coffin.[1]

Government service and death
Following his release at the end of the war, Lingan was made Collector of the Port of Georgetown by George Washington personally and became a Brigadier-General in the Maryland State Militia. He was also a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati.[1] He built Prospect House, in Georgetown.[2]

Throughout his life, Lingan was a strong advocate of the freedom of the press, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 spoke out in opposition to those who favoured censorship. When the offices of the Baltimore Federal Republican were besieged and burnt by a mob angry at anti-war editorials run by the newspaper, Lingan protested at the act and sheltered the newspaper editor, Alexander Contee Hanson in Georgetown. On July 17, 1812, Hanson resumed printing the newspaper at new offices in Baltimore and another mob formed within hours, again storming the building and destroying the presses. Hanson, with Lingan, Henry Lee III and others who had hastened from Washington to try to calm the crowd, were arrested by local militia and taken to Baltimore City Jail in an attempt to calm the situation. The crowd, led by an athletic butcher named John Mumma,[3] followed them to the prison and stormed the building. Lingan attempted to stop the mob by displaying a bayonet wound he had received in the Revolutionary War, but this only inflamed the crowd and Hanson, Lingan and Lee were severely beaten and left for dead. Hanson and Lee survived, although the latter was left partially blinded after hot wax was poured into his eyes. Lingan however died from his serious injuries.[1]

Lingan was buried at St. John's Church in Georgetown, at a funeral attended by thousands of mourners. George Washington Custis read the eulogy, praising Lingan's defence of free press and crying "Oh Maryland! Would that the waters of the Chesapeake could wash this foul stain from thy character!" 96 years later, Lingan's remains were removed from the burial ground in Georgetown and transferred to Arlington National Cemetery. In an odd bit of irony, Arlington Cemetery had been established in 1864 on the grounds of the Arlington Plantation, the home of George Washington Parke Custis.[1]

• 1. Peters, James Edward (2000). Arlington National Cemetery, Shrine to America's Heroes. Woodbine House. ISBN 1-890627-14-3.
• 2. http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/72001430.pdf
• 3. link to Harvey, Peter (1878-01-01). Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. Little, Brown.

Notes

• Accomplishment: Founding Member of The Society of Cincinnati
• Rebellion: Freedom of the Press 1812 Baltimore

Service: Member of Cincinnati. Lieutenant Captain of the Maryland forces during the duration of the Revolutionary War. In Battle of Long Island (first engagement; 400 Maryland men charged the advancing column and drove Cornwallis back to Cortelyou House. Kip's Bay, Harlem Heights, White Plains and Chatterton Hill were other Battles in which he was engaged. He was promoted to Captain on 16 November 1776 at fort Washington where it cost Kyphaused 800 men to drive back this single regiment. With a serious chest wound from a bayonet thrust, Lingan was captured when the fort fell and was sent to the prison ship "Jersey." While there, his cousin, Admiral Hood of the British Navy, offered him liberty, wealth and rank in the English Army if he would desert the American cause. His reply "I will rot here first." Later he was paroled and exchanged. At the close of the War he was brevetted Brigardier General and President Washington appointed him Collector of the Port of Georgetown. In 1908 General Lingan's remains were removed from private cemetery by the War Department and reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. The National Museum at Washington D.C. exhibit's his minature, wedding vest, French clock, other ornaments and his parole from the "Jersey" prison ship. On 28, July 1812, a mob attacked the office of the Federal Republican in Baltimore and destroyed it. General Lingan went to the scene with Lighthorse Harry Lee, John Howard Paume and other members of the Federalist Party. He was struck down almost immediately and thrown into the street. The others were cruelly beaten by the mob and only escaped by playing dead. (Harvey's Reminiscences of Daniel Webster).

• http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jamesmcc.htm

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Richd Henderson found in: Census Microfilm Records: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, 1800 State: District of Columbia County: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Locale: NO TWP LISTED Series: M32 Roll: 5 Part: 1 Page: 871 Listed on the same page are Nicholas Lingan and James M. Lingan

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General James McCubbin Lingan, husband of Janet Henderson, father of Ann Lingan, who m. John Leffingwell Bartlett of CT, and several other children. FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS 2ND LT. AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND. Captured by British, imprisoned on the notorious Prison Ship, Jersey. Later exchanged Oct 25, 1780.

Notes: From Penelope Lingan Turner, compiler: He was my great great grandfather. Information from my memory of many stories I heard from childhood from my father, Henry Bartlett Lingan, aka Floyd Johnston Lingan, who did much research on the Lingan and Bartlett families many years ago. Most of his records have been lost. _____________________ "Virginia Soldiers of 1776" Vol 1 by Burgess, c. 1927; Pg. 221, (R., Gen, 929.3, B955.3, B955.V Lingan, James; 2nd Lt. : " The State of MD having recommended James Lingan, 2nd Lt, etc, In Col. Stevenson's battalion. (look up other references here, pgs 220, 221, 222.) at Hugh Embry Library.

FTM CD 210, NGS Quarterly Vol 1- 85, 1600's - 1900s. Disk 2, Index of Revolutionary Pensioners: Pg. 238: LINGAN, James M., Md., BLWt. 1294-300- Capt. Issued 3/29/1792. No papers.

LINGAN, Thomas, MD., S34962. (Thomas was James' older brother. per PLT)

Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Services: Return of Md Officers exchanged from the 24th Mar, 1777. Rawlings, Oct 25, 1780.

• ********* From the DAR Monument erected to Gen. James McCubbin Lingan & his wife, Janet Henderson, after the Arlingtion National Cemetery was started, and their bodies were moved there from the family graveyard on the Georgetown Heights, formerly the location of their farm, "Harlem" . In the Civil War, the Union Army had a campground on the site of the family cemetery. His granddaughters made arrangements to have the bodies moved to Arlington Cemetery in 1908.
  • ********** "Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia" Chapter XII. "Georgetown" Ridgely 1967 __________________________ Information from some notes taken at the New Orleans Library in 1990 by P. L. Turner ________________________ Information from my memory, of some research I did on James McCubbin Lingan for a college term paper. _______________ Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files, Pg 2087 "Lingan, James M. , B.L. W. #1294-300; 19 Mar 1792. serv as Capt in the MD line, no papers, however there was a note that stated James M. Lingan was killed 18 July 1812, but wasn't dated or signed "???"

I need to locate "Patriots and Poltroons," a history about the War of 1812, written about 1959. My family owned, two volumes, I believe, of this book, that had a vivid discription of Lingan's death in the jail cell. He was tortured with hot wax dripped into his eyes, before he was finally murdered. The others survived, with terrible injuries. They had been put in jail for protection from the mob, but the keys to the jail were turned over to the mob. (I believe this had happened due to President Madison and his political aim to start a war with Britain to wrest South Florida from the British. The Spanish were still in north & west Florida. The mob was angered at the owners & defenders of the "Federal Republican," a Baltimore newspaper which was anti-war.

• ********* May 21, 1996, clipping from Tampa Tribune: "Monument Honors Journalists", Today a monument believed to be the only one devoted to all journalists (934) whose deaths in the line of duty have been verified will be dedicated. ..... The first journalist on the list is James M. Lingan, part owner of the Federal Republican newspaper in Baltimore. He was trampled to death in 1812 by a mob unhappy with the newspaper's content. Hiliary Clinton made a speech at dedication of the Memorial.
  • ******** Stories I Heard As A child, and from some research I did years ago.By Penelope Lingan Turner: "The DAR Gravestone at Arlington" There is a large monument in Arlington National Cemetery. My father photographed this monument with his older children about 1939. This was James McCubbin Lingan's third burial place. I believe that he was one of eight officers of the American Revolution moved here after the cemetery was opened. His grave was moved from a family plot on the Lingan farm above Georgetown, DC. The monument states that his wife, Janet Henderson is buried with him. This monument is rectangular in shape, about six feet tall, and has thirteen stars at the top stretching all around the top, representing the thirteen original states. I believe it mentions that he had been a prisoner on the British "Jersey" after the Battle of Long Island, where he had been severely wounded with a saber and captured. The monument states that he had been a Charter member of the "Society of the Cincinatti," (an organzation of army officers who fought under Gen. George Washington during the Revolution). I think there is an emblem of this Society on the tombstone.

"Killed in Baltimore Riot of 1812" He died in "The Baltimore Riot of 1812." He had a friend who was publishing a newspaper, "The Federal Republican," edited by Alexander C. Hansen in Baltimore, where the Democratic Party was in strong majority. and writing incendiary articles against going to war with at a time the British Navy was impressing American seamen. I believe the editor was Alexander C. Hansen. Lingan had an interest in this paper. He was was in his sixties at this time. Alexander Hansen had sent words to some of his friends to help him withstand an angry mob. " Light Horse Harry" Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee also came with a number of others. They sent word to the White House to have President Madison send some militia to quell the mob. In the meantime, the local officials put the editor and his friends in jail for protection. The militia never came, and the keys to the jail were turned over to the mob. The rioters severely injured and tortured the prisoners. "Light Horse" Harry Lee never regained his health. There was a book called "Poltroons and Patriots", written about 1960, on the War of 1812, that stated that they poured hot wax from a candle into his eyes. He was the only one that had died. He was buried in a secret grave until things calmed down. About a month later the family was able to retrieve the body. He had a Washington funeral, "Fit for an Emperor", complete with his empty horse. Quite a few military officers resigned to attend his funeral. President Madison had given orders for them not to attend. George Washington's step-grandson, (Martha's grandson) George Washington Custis gave the obituary speech, a very fancy one, beginning "Lingan, O! Illustrious Name." (I found some of these accounts in the Rare Book Room" in the Library of Congress.. There were also some other accounts of this funeral. The funeral was conducted in George Washington's old battle tent. Francis Scott Key, one of Lingan's cousins had previously been asked to do the funeral oration. I understand he turned it down for some reason, probably politial. Under George Washington, James McCubbin Lingan had been the collector of customs at Georgetown.

• ********** " Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia",Chapter XII " Georgetown" By Ridgely (1967) Among the local families who constituted Society in those days were the Curtises, the Peters, the Forrests, the Keys, the Lingans and the Platers, mostt of whom were related by marriage and had their homes on the heights of Georgetown. Colonel Plater's wife, Martha, also a very beautiful woman, was the sister of James McCubbin Lingan, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, who met his death at the hands of the Baltimore mobs in 1812. The General (of the Maryland Militia) held a part interest in the "FederalRepublican", a newspaper edited by Alexander C. Hansen and others and published in Baltimore, where the Democratic Party was strongly in the majority. The opposition of this paper to the Madison war policy of 1812 drew upon the editors and owners the fury of the mob, who first destroyed the building where paper was printed, and about a month afterward, when General Lingan and his partners had succeded in circulating another issue, attacked the house where they were prepared to defend their property. To escape the excesses of the mob, they surrendered to the civil authorities, who offered them the protection of the jail for the night. The building was carelessly guarded, the mob broke in and the scenes that followed were horrible in their brutality and cruelty, as any depicted in the French Revolution. Though many of his friends were left for dead upon the floor of the jail, General Lingan was the only one killed outright. His body was buried secretly, the conditions exacted by the ringleaders before surrendering and it was not until some time later afterwards that his relatives had it removed to Georgetown and quietly buried in a grave on his own farm "Harlem." Here, many years later, his wife was laid by his side and still lay an infant grandson. During the Civil War, the whole field was used as a camping ground and all signs of an enclosure disappeared, but in 1874 or 1875 the grandchildren of General Lingan had an iron fence placed around the graves. They are now to be found at the back of a laborers cottage on the Foxhall Road and are to be identified by the name "Lingan" on the iron gate of the enclosure. (The author of this article did not know that the bodies had been moved to Arlington National Cemetery, and a fine monument erected by the DAR in 1908. This is noted earlier, by Penelope Lingan Turner.) In spite of the secrecy which had attended the disposal of his body, General Lingan's memory was honored by a stately funeral. On September 1, a little more than a month later, after his death...during which the wounds and bruises of his friends and colleagues had time to heal...an immense concourse of people, too large for any church to hold, moved in procession to Parrott's Woods, now known as Oak Hill Cemetery, in the following order: "Marshalls on horseback; four clergy of different denominations; Committee of arrangements; Mr. Custis of Arlington, Orator of the day; Music; Captain Stull's Rifle Corps, commanded by Lieutenant Kurtz; eight venerable pall bearers with white scarfs; Mr. George Lingan, the General's son, chief mourner; the general's horse in mourning, led by a groom; family and relatives of the deceased in coaches; the wounded veteran, Major Musgrove; who survived the midnight massacre in which his brother soldier fell, bearing the General's sword, and supported by two heroes of the Revolution; Mr. Hanson and other survivors of the band who defended the liberty of the press; veteran bands of the Revolution; strangers of distinction; citizens of the counties of Montogomery, Baltimore, Frederick, Charles, Prince Georges, and St. Mary's; and from the cities of Georgetown, Washington, and Alexandria; Marshalls on horseback; Captain Peter's triad (?) of horse; Liutenant John S. Wilson. " The orator of the day was George Washington Custis, grandson of Mrs. Martha Washington.
  • *********** CD # 210; National Genealogy Society Quarterly; Vol. 1 - 85; 1600's - 1900's; 2 Disks.: Disk 1, Vol. 29 Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Arlington Cemetery. c. The Learning Company, Inc. Pg. 145-147: (This article printed from The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. 14 Mar, 1941, states that There are ten Revolutionary War soldiers listed in the files of the Administrative offices in Arlington Cemetery or identified with D.A.R. markers. Part of them were brought to Arlington in 1892 from the Old Presbyterian Church in Georgetown. Others were brought from burial places along the Eastern coast. )
    • ****** "Gen. Lingan whose remains were taken from a private estate in Georgetown to Arlington in 1908, He was killed in a Baltimore riot shortly after the outbread of war with England in 1812. The riot grew out of ill-feeling between the Federalists and pro-Democratic elements of the city. Gen. Lingan, with Gen. Henry, "Lighthorse Harry," Lee and others, came to the aid of a Federalist editor, Alexander Hanson, whose plant had been wrecked by a mob. In July of 1812, Gen. Lingan and his friends, entrenched in a house, survived a night of violent rioting, in which one besieger was killed and several wounded. Although Gen. Lingan and his group were taken safely to prison, some citizens rallied the followin day, gained entrance to the jail and beat the prisoners. Lingan died almost immediately, but Lee lived until 1818." From PLT: FTM CD 178 Church Records: MD & DE, 1600 - 1800's MD, Records of St. Paul's Parish, Vol II, Parish Registers : Pg. 79: James Lingan was buried 29 Aug 1812.

From PLT: He was buried first in July 1812 in an unknown location. About a month later the body was turned over to the family. Then they had the famous funeral. The bodies of James McCubbin Lingan and his wife, Janet Henderson Lingan, were buried in Arlington Cemetery. (There was also grandson buried with them.) Many years later their bodies were moved from the site at Harlem, their farm above Georgetown. There had been a Federal Army Encampment and it was no longer a suitable place for the graves. About 1908, after the National Cemetery at Arlington was opened, two of their (Randolph) granddaughters made arrangements for the bodies to be moved along with several other Revolutionary Veterans. There is a beautiful monument for them with a D.A.R. marker on the grave.

• *********** FTM CD #238 Genealogical Records: New York, 1675-1920. c. Broderbund. Records: Lingan, J.M. Cabbin Lived 1780, Long Island, Suffolk, Co. N.Y. (This is spelled wrong. I am sure it should be James McCubbin Lingan. He fought in the Battle of Long Island in 1780 with the Maryland Militia. He was a Lieut. then. Lingan, Lt. James McCubbin. Lived Abt 1776 in New York. (Surname was misspelled) Should be Lingan.
  • ********* Also see "WASHINGTON Past and Present" A History; by Editor-in Chief; JOHN CLAGETT PROTOR, LLM. Etc. Vol.II; Lewis Historical Publishington Company, Inc. New York, 1930. This shows oval miniature pictures of James Maccubbin Lingan and his wife Janet (Henderson) Maccubbin.