Exposition of the Atomic Theory of Chymistry, and the Doctrine of Definite Proportions (Classic Reprint)
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Several well informed physicians and chymists have gone forth from our walls: You are destined to continue the honourable succession; and this.
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Pieces of Irish history, illustrative of the condition of the Catholics of Ireland, of the origin and progress of the political system of the United ... government. Published by W. J. MacNeven.
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xix, 256 p. ; 8º.
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Documents in the Matter of an Application to the Honourable the Legislature of the State of New-York, for a Charter for Manhattan College
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science, Arranged in the Order in Which They Are Discussed and Illustrated in the Lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
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An argument for independence, in opposition to an union. Addressed to all his countrymen. By an Irish Catholic.
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A Ramble Through Swisserland, In The Summer And Autumn Of 1802
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A Ramble Through Swisserland, In The Summer And Autumn Of 1802
William James MacNeven
Printed by J. Stockdale, 1803
Travel; Europe; Switzerland; History / General; Switzerland; Travel / Europe / Switzerland
William James MacNeven was an Irish-American medician. He was a physician and Irish patriot.
Background
William James MacNeven was born on March 21, 1763, in County Galway, Ireland. He was the son of Catholic parents, James and Rosa (Dolphin) MacNeven. His father was a country gentleman who lived on his own estate. The family had formerly possessed large holdings in the North of Ireland, but had been expelled by Cromwell and forced to settle in the wilds of Galway.
MacNeven's uncle, William O'Kelly MacNeven, finding it necessary to leave Ireland to obtain a professional education, had gone to Austria, where he rose to the post of physician to the Empress Maria Theresa and was made a baron.
Education
When William James MacNeven was ten or twelve, since the penal laws which restricted Catholic education were still in force, he went to live with his uncle in Vienna. Eventually, he studied medicine at the universities of Prague and Vienna, and received a degree from the latter institution in 1784.
Career
Settling at once in Dublin, MacNeven began what promised to be a brilliant career. An earnest patriot and a member of the United Irishmen, he engaged in political activities which led to his internment first in Kilmainham prison and then at Fort George, Scotland, where Thomas Addis Emmet was one of his fellow prisoners.
During his incarceration, he studied extensively, and upon his discharge in 1802 under sentence of banishment, went almost at once to Switzerland, where he spent several months in a walking tour, described in his first book, A Ramble through Swisserl and in the Summer and Autumn of 1802 (1803). In 1803, he went to France, where he sought an interview with Napoleon in regard to a possible invasion of Ireland, but to no effect.
For the next two years, he served in the Irish Brigade of the French army, and then, apparently convinced that he could no longer aid the cause of Ireland in Europe, he took ship for America, arriving in New York July 4, 1805, with the intention of beginning life anew. He found a cordial welcome in New York and soon established himself in practice. Two years after his arrival, he delivered a course of clinical lectures at the New York Hospital, and in 1808 was elected professor of obstetrics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Three years later, he was transferred to the chair of chemistry, and, in addition to this subject, from 1816 to 1820 taught materia medica. His is said to have been the first chemical laboratory in New York. In 1815, he published a Chemical Examination of the Mineral Waters of Schooley's Mountains, and in 1819 an Exposition of the Atomic Theory of Chemistry.
His last scientific publication was an edition, with emendations, of W. T. Brande's Manual of Chemistry (1821). He was also co-editor for a time of the New York Medical and Philosophical Journal and Review. In 1823, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Together with his colleagues Valentine Mott, David Hosack, and John W. Francis, he withdrew from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1826 to found a rival medical school, affiliated with Rutgers College.
Although this enterprise was successful, it was short-lived, being abandoned after four years because of legal difficulties. Meantime, his expatriation did not end MacNeven's interest in his native land.
In 1807, he published Pieces of Irish History; he also established an employment bureau to find positions for Irish immigrants; he is said to have published a manual of directions for Irishmen arriving in America; he was an organizer and first president (1828 - 29) of a society known as the Friends of Ireland.
An attack of gout in 1838 obliged him to give up his work and move to the country, and the remainder of his life was spent in the home of his step-daughter and her husband, Thomas A. Emmet, Jr. , son of his old friend.
MacNeven's death in 1841, followed a long and painful illness.
Achievements
MacNeven is known as "The Father of American Chemistry". He has an obelisk monument commemorated for him in the Trinity Church, located between Wall Street and Broadway, New York. The Obelisk is opposite to another commemorated for his friend Thomas Emmet. MacNeven's monument features a lengthy inscription in Irish, one of the oldest existent dedications of this kind in the Americas.
Throughout his life, MacNeven was a loyal Roman Catholic and the last rites of his Church were administered to him by Bishop Hughes.
Politics
During his 36 years in America, MacNeven kept abreast of the political situation in Ireland and the men and women who continued the struggle for Irish Independence that he and his comrades including Tone, Emmet, Fitzgerald, Bond, McCormick set in motion.
Membership
MacNeven was a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Personality
Despite his fame and prominence as a distinguished luminary in the medical community MacNeven was a man of the people who did not forget his less fortunate countrymen and women. He was involved in many endeavors to better their lives including chairman of a committee of distinguished Irishmen for the settlement of Irish farmers and farm laborers on American lands.
He also established an employment agency for Irish emigrants who were arriving in New York in large numbers. In 1827, he opened a free registry office for the benefit of Irish domestic servants. This service also included directions for naturalization.
Connections
MacNeven was married in 1810 to Jane Margaret, daughter of Samuel Riker and widow of John Tom. Most of their children died of tuberculosis, an affection to which the children of Irish emigrants were unusually susceptible. Only two sons and a daughter survived their father.
