James McHenry (December 20, 1785 – July 21, 1845) was an American writer, physician, and diplomat.

Biography

He was born at

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, Ireland and was educated in

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and

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, In 1817 he emigrated to the United States and took up residence in

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, where he practised medicine. He was appointed in 1842 as United States counsel at

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. He died at

, on 21 July 1845.

Family

His son James, who died in 1891 at Kensington, was a well-known financier. His daughter Mary married Mr. J. Bellargee Cox of

Works

* 1808. ''The Bard of Erin and Other Poems Mostly National.'' * 1810. ''Patrick: A Poetical Tale Founded on Incidents Which Took Place in Ireland During the Unhappy Period of 1793.'' * 1822. ''The Pleasures of Friendship: A Poem in Two Parts.'' * 1823. ''Waltham: An American Revolutionary Tale in Three Cantos.'' * 1823. '' The Wilderness; or, Braddock's Times: A Tale of the West.'' * 1823. ''The Spectre of the Forest; or, Annals of the Housatonic, A New-England Romance.'' * 1824. ''O'Halloran; or, the Insurgent Chief: An Irish Historical Tale of 1798.'' * 1825. ''The Hearts of Steel: An Irish Historical Tale of the Last Century.'' * 1829. ''The Usurper: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.'' * 1830. ''The Betrothed of Wyoming: An Historical Tale.'' * 1830. ''Meredith; or, The Mystery of the Meschianza: A Tale of the American Revolution.'' * 1839. ''To Britannia.'' * 1840. ''The Antediluvians; or, The World Destroyed: A Narrative Poem in Ten Books.''

Notes

References

* * *Sullivan, Maureen Ann. (1999). "James McHenry (20 December 1785-21 July 1845)." In K. P. Ljungquist (Ed.), ''Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 202''. ''Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Writers'' (Vol. 202, pp. 185–190). Detroit, MI: Gale.

External links

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