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Title: Dr.
Occupation: Physician
Occupation: BET 1837 AND 1839 in Assistant, Pennsylvania Geological Survey
Fact 3 (2): May have lived in Canada.
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A writer of popular works on Eastern religions, etc., in (among other publications) the American Whig Review.
Philip Melanethon's son, James Davenport, physician, born in New York city, 23 January, 1817; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 15 April, 1872, was graduated at Yale in 1837, and entered the service of the geological survey of Pennsylvania under Henry D. Rogers, where he continued for two years. He was graduated at the medical department of Yale in 1842, and remained in New Haven until 1846, engaging in the study of science and in literary pursuits. Dr. Whelpley then settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he began to practise medicine; but failing health soon compelled him to relinquish that profession. In 1847 he removed to New York city, where he became editor and one of the owners of the "American Whig Review," to which he had been a contributor since 1845. While thus engaged he formed, about 1849, a project of establishing a commercial colony in Honduras, and in furtherance of this enterprise spent two years in San Francisco, purchasing and editing one of the daily papers there. His arrangements were disturbed by the presence of the filibuster, William Walker, and on going to Honduras he was detained by Walker for nearly a year and impressed into the service as a surgeon, during which time he suffered great privation. Finally he escaped to San Francisco, whence he returned early in 1857 to the east and again devoted himself to literary and scientific pursuits. He was a member of the American academy of arts and sciences, to whose transactions and to the "American Journal of Science" be contributed papers, principally on physics and metallurgy, giving the results of his researches. The most important of these is "Idea of an Atom suggested by the Phenomena of Weight and Temperature" (1845), in which he anticipated Michael Faraday's ideas as set forth in his " Thoughts on Ray Visions" (1846) ; and he was also the author of "Letters on Philosophical Induction" and "Letters on Philosophical Analogy," which discuss fundamental principles in scientific methods.
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