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David Bailie Warden was born in 1772 at Ballycastle, near Greyabbey, County Down, Ireland, eldest of three sons of Robert and Elizabeth (Bailie or Baillie) Warden.
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David Bailie Warden was born in 1772 at Ballycastle, near Greyabbey, County Down, Ireland, eldest of three sons of Robert and Elizabeth (Bailie or Baillie) Warden.
He received the degree of A. M. from the University of Glasgow in 1797, together with prizes for "the best historical and philosophical account of the Application of the Barometer to the mensuration of Heights" and for general proficiency in natural philosophy.
In May 1797 he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Bangor. Being an ardent patriot, he became associated with the United Irishmen, accepting a colonel's commission in that organization and acting as a confidential agent. Arrested and offered the choice of standing trial or transporting himself forever from His Majesty's dominions, he emigrated to the United States in 1799. Shortly after his arrival he was offered a professorship of natural philosophy at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. , but was prevented from accepting by a previous agreement to act as principal of Columbia Academy at Kinderhook; on August 1, 1801, he became principal tutor of the Kingston Academy, Ulster County, N. Y. In 1804 he was admitted to citizenship and went to Paris as a private secretary to Gen. John Armstrong, just appointed minister to France. In accordance with presidential instructions dated July 22, 1808, Armstrong designated him to act as consul pro tempore. In 1810, when Armstrong was succeeded by Joel Barlow, Warden returned to the United States and secured appointment as consul at Paris and agent for prize causes, but he was removed from office June 10, 1814, ostensibly on the ground that during the interim between the death of Barlow and the arrival of his successor, William H. Crawford, Warden had assumed the character of consul general, with which he was not officially invested. The remainder of Warden's life was spent in France. In his retirement he never ceased to promote the interests of American citizens to the best of his abilities. He had taken with him collections of American plants, animals, and insects; and he now devoted a great part of his energies to attempts to disseminate information concerning America. To this end he published A Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia (1816); A Statistical, Political and Historical Account of the United States of North America, apparently intended as a complete reference work which should defend the democratic experiment by presenting the facts to speak for themselves; Chronologie Historique de l'Amerique, published also as L'Art de Verifier les Dates, vols. XXXII-XLI; Bibliotheca Americo-Septentrionalis (1820), a catalogue of one of his collections of books on America, which collection was purchased by S. A. Eliot and presented to Harvard College in 1823; Recherches sur les Antiquites de l'Amerique Septentrionale (1827); and Bibliotheca Americana (1831). A second collection which he made of books on America was acquired by the New York State Library in 1845. Both were especially rich in maps and plans of the battles of the American Revolution and in material relating to the Spanish explorations. Among his correspondents were Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Lafayette, Talleyrand, John Howard Payne, Jared Sparks, Nicholas Biddle, John Jacob Astor, Rembrandt Peale, Joseph C. Cabell, Anthony Morris, and Josiah Quincy.
He published An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes (1810), translated from the French of B. H. Gregoire; and a treatise, On the Origin, Nature, Progress, and Influence of Consular Establishments (1813), which was translated into several different languages and freely quoted by the noted British jurist, Joseph Chitty, in his Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures (1820).
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Warden was a member of the American Philosophical Society, of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York, and of numerous European societies.
