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William Hypolitus Keating was born on August 11, 1799 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, the son of Baron John and Eulalia (Deschapelles) Keating. His father, of Irish extraction, formerly a colonel in the Irish Brigade of the Frerch army, had resigned his commission and settled in Delaware. Later the family moved to Philadelphia.
Young Keating received his early education in Philadelphia. Entering the University of Pennsylvania in 1813, he graduated in 1816 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then continued the study of chemistry and mineralogy in polytechnic schools in France and Switzerland, and received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1821 Keating published Considerations upon the Art of Mining and Advantages Which Would Result from an Introduction of this Art into the United States. The following year he was appointed professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, which position he held until 1828, when he resigned. In his first year at the University he announced the discovery of a new mineral which he named Jeffersonite, but later it was definitely proved that Jeffersonite was only a variety of pyroxene. In 1822 also, Keating was responsible for the tests which proved that a supposed new mineral announced from Columbia County, New York, was nothing but an artificial zinc oxide. In later years, as a result of studies made near Franklin, New Jersey, he was largely responsible for the discovery of eight or ten new minerals, including red zinc ore, franklinite, dysulsite, and zinc carbonate.
In 1823 he served as geologist and historiographer of the expedition under Major Stephen H. Long, sent out by the Secretary of War to explore the region about the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Upon his return he compiled two volumes of the notes made by himself and the other members of the expedition, publishing them under the title, Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, etc. He was also editor of an American edition of Conversations on Chemistry, Etc. , published in 1824.
In 1824, together with Samuel V. Merrick, he had an important share in awakening sufficient public interest to ensure the satisfactory inauguration of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania. He was one of its first managers and was also elected professor of chemistry. He was a man of great scientific attainments, but also took an interest in the law, in business affairs, and in politics. He read law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, May 3, 1834, and served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in that same year.
William Hypolitus Keating was considered one of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. He was noted for his narrative account on Stephen Long's expedition to the Great Lakes in 1823. He also helped found the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and was responsible for the successful negotiation of its first mortgage loan in England.
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Keating became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1822.
Keating married to Elizabeth Bollman.
