Macdonald family

James Macdonald: physician specializing in mental disorders; superintendent of Bloomingdale Asylum, N.Y., ca. 1832-1838; founded Sanford Hall Institution, 1844.

49 Wall St., New York City. Residence, 129 Jamaica Ave., Flushing, N. Y.

James Allan Macdonald was born at New York City, on March 16, 1844. He is a son of James Macdonald and Eliza Harris (Miller) Macdonald, and has one brother, J. Archibald (Columbia 1868), and four sisters, Flora (Mrs. Barstow), Margaret (Mrs. Mitchell), Anne (Mrs. Miller), and Eliza.

James Macdonald (born at White Plains, N. Y.; died in 1850, at Flushing, N. Y.) was a physician, living at New York City. He was of Scotch ancestry. Eliza Harris (Miller) Macdonald (born March 16, 1814, at New York City; died July 25, 1890, at Flushing, N. Y.) was of an old New York family.

Macdonald served as a private and a corporal in the 7th and 37th Regiments of New York Volunteer Infantry in 1862 and until the fall of 1863. He prepared for college at a private school in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1863 and entered Sheff. in September of the same year, taking the course in assaying and mining.

He was married, at New York City, on March 1, 1892, to Miss Cara Crooke, sister of his classmate Robert Livingston Crooke and daughter of Philip Schuyler Crooke, a lawyer of Flatbush, N. Y. They have one daughter: Flora, born December 30, 1892, at Flushing, N. Y.

Macdonald is vice president of the United Verde Copper Company and of sundry other companies, but has retired from active business. He is a Democrat of the old school and a member of several New York clubs, among them the Players, University and Metropolitan. He attends the Protestant Episcopal church.

(Taken from the Sheffield Scientific School Class Of 1866 Record.)

From the guide to the Macdonald family papers, 1808-1922, (Manuscripts and Archives)