Joseph McKean (academic)

Joseph McKean
Born(1776-04-19)19 April 1776
Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts, British America
Died17 March 1818(1818-03-17) (aged 41)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
EducationHarvard University

Joseph McKean (19 April 1776 – 17 March 1818) was the second holder of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.[1]: 10  He was also the seventh librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, occupying that position from October 1809, to April, 1812.[2]: 34  It was during this time that he created the first catalog of the Boston Athenæum.

  1. ^ Levi Hedge, Eulogy on the Rev. Joseph McKean, D.D.LL.D. Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory, Delivered before the University, Cambridge, April 22, 1818. Cambridge: University Press., Hilliard & Metcalf, 1818.
  2. ^ Samuel Abbot Green, Origin and Growth of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1893.