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Almost twenty Presidents of the United States have descended from Ulster or Ulster-Scots emigrants – amongst them Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st US President who served from 1881 to 1885. When he died just a year after leaving the White House, it was said that “Chester Alan Arthur had come of a stock made for eminence”.

That stock was Ulster-Scots, descended from the Scottish Campbells and MacArthurs who later settled in the Cullybackey area of County Antrim, principally in the townlands of Corbally and Dreen.  It was the President’s father, William Arthur, a Baptist minister, who emigrated to North America before 1820.