Background
He was born on September 29, 1847 in County Cavan, Ireland, the son of James and Julia (Finnegan) O'Reilly, and was christened Michael Francis. His parents brought him to New York in the post-famine exodus of 1850.
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Brother Potamian
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Trained in the public and Christian Brothers' schools of that city, he joined the congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools as Brother Potamian and in 1859 entered its novitiate in Montreal. Within the following decade, he completed a normal course, acquired a thorough knowledge of French, the classics, and the natural sciences.
He read for degrees at the University of London (B. Sc. , 1878; D. Sc. , 1883), being the first Catholic to win its doctorate in science
Career
He taught in the elementary schools of Montreal and the Christian Brothers' academy in Quebec. In 1870 he was ordered to St. Joseph's College in London, where he taught the sciences. During a score of years, he gained reputation as a master whose boys passed the matriculation examinations for Universities; as a scientist who associated with Huxley, Tyndall, and Kelvin; and as a religious who enjoyed the friendship of prelates like Newman and Manning.
In 1893, he was transferred to the De La Salle Normal School, Waterford, Ireland, where he remained until 1896. His final assignment (1896 - 1917) was as professor of physics in Manhattan College in New York, which, after the withdrawal from the Christian Brothers of their privilege of teaching Latin, laid special stress upon the natural sciences.
Potamian was not merely an administrator, an instructor, and a laboratory investigator; he was also a writer who, in addition to semi-popular articles in Engineering (London), Electrical World (New York), Manhattan Quarterly, Catholic World, and the Catholic Encyclopedia, published a number of volumes. His Pamphlets Relating to Electricity and Magnetism was assigned to him by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the suggestion of Sylvanus P. Thompson, the English scientist, who declared that in America only Potamian and Park Benjamin were capable of such an undertaking.
He died in 1847.
Achievements
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As president of St. Joseph's College, Brother Potamian erected a new building in 1880. As a representative of the British government, he was am honorable delegate to the world's fairs at Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876), Paris (1889), and Chicago (1893), and at the last named was a member of the jury of awards. He also was the author of famous works: The Theory of Electrical Measurements, The Makers of Electricity and Bibliography of the Latimer Clark Collection of Books.
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Religion
Roman Catholic