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The McPhorich Lamonts history dates back to the time of the massacre. The Lamonts who lived between Ardyne and Dunoon were styled “McPhorich” and are to be distinguished from others of the tartan including the McPhadrick Lamonts from the western shore of Loch Striven. One writer states that MacPhorich was an alias adopted after the Dunoon massacre of 1646 when the Campbells killed a large number of Lamonts.

 

One Lamont of this line came to the USA was Daniel Lamont born 19 Aug 1793 in Ardtinney. Ardentinny is a small village on the west shore of Loch Long, fourteen miles from Dunoon in Argyll on the Cowal peninsula. The name Ardentinny means 'the hill of fire' deriving either from the ancient rite of lighting fires to the God of Bel on May 1st. His grandson, Daniel Scott Lamont aka McPhorich (February 9, 1851 – July 23, 1905) was the United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland’s second term.


Daniel Scott Lamont was born on his family’s farm in Cortland County, New York and attended Union College at
Schenectady New York. While attending Union College he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was employed as engrossing clerk and assistant journal clerk in the state capitol at Albany, New York, was a clerk on the staff of the Democratic state central committee in 1872, and was chief clerk of the New York department of state from 1875 to 1882.

In 1883, through his mentor Daniel Manning, Lamont was assigned to then-New York Governor Grover Clevelands staff as a political prompter. He became private and military secretary with the rank of colonel on the governor’s staff the same year, and continued in his service after Cleveland became president in 1885. Lamont also held employment with William C. Whitney in his business ventures in 1889.

From March 5, 1893 to March 5 1897, Lamont served as United States Secretary of War in President Cleveland's cabinet. Throughout his tenure, he urged the adoption of a three-battalion infantry regiment as a part of a general modernization and strengthening of the Army. Furthermore, Lamont recommended the construction of a central hall of records to house Army archives, and urged that Congress authorize the marking of important battlefields in the manner adopted for Antietam. He also recommended that lands being used by Apache prisoners at Fort Sill be acquired for their permanent use and their prisoner status be terminated.

After his service as Secretary of War, Lamont was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from 1898 to 1904. He was also a director of numerous banks and corporations. Lamont died in Millbrook, New York in 1905.

Lamont spent his summers in the Gray Gables neighborhood in Bourne, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, near where Grover Cleveland owned a house. Cleveland and Lamont were known to have many parties during the summers. His old house still stands.



-- Edited by Knockdow at 17:46, 2009-02-28

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Thank you George, it's always a pleasure to read your history articles. We must never forget where we came from.

Wouldn't it have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during some of those parties!

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