James R. Manley (April 5, 1782 – November 21, 1851) was an American physician and professor of obstetrics who was prominent in New York City.
James R. Manley | |
|---|---|
| 4th President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York | |
| In office 1844–1845 | |
| Preceded by | Egbert Benson |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 5, 1782 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 21, 1851 (aged 69) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Post (m. 1804) |
| Children | Emma Catherine Embury |
| Alma mater | Columbia College Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Early life edit
Manley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1782. He was the son of Robert and Catharine Manley. His father, a native of Maryland, who was a Captain in the Continental Army known for his "zeal and active exertions in the cause of the Revolution." His mother was a native of New York who was "a daughter of one of the old Dutch burghers."[1] His elder brother, John Manley, was a midshipman under Commodore Joshua Barney in the Continental Navy.[1][2]
At the age of 13, Manley entered Columbia College and graduated in 1799.[1]
Career edit
After studying medicine with Dr. John R. B. Rogers (father of Dr. J. Kearney Rogers), he received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia in 1803 and began practicing physician in New York City.[1] Dr. Manley treated many prominent men of times, including author Thomas Paine on his deathbed in 1809.[1] In 1828, he was appointed "Resident Physician" of New York and held the office for twelve years under various governors.[1] In 1839, following the resignation of Dr. Edward Delafield in 1838, Manley served as professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. On November 6, 1839, he gave an introductory address on to the medical students in medicine of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York. From 1847 until his death in 1851, he was Consulting Physician and president of the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital.[3]
"During a long professional life Dr. M. received many evidences of distinction. In 1818 and 19 when the yellow fever prevailed to a fearful extent at the quarantine among the passengers from Europe, he assisted the health officer Dr. Dewitt who fell a victim to its ravages. When the deputy, Dr. Harrison was lying ill with the same disease, the board of health solicited Dr. M. to take charge of the sick at quarantine which he did; searlessly faced the fatal pestilence and continued in charge for two months and until the post of danger had become a place of safety. In 1828 Gov. Clinton was intending to nominate him to the Senate as Health Officer, but after the Governor's sudden decease the nomination was found, in his writing, on his table ready to be sent to the Senate the next day. Dr. Manley had warned the Governor a day or two before his death of his liability to an attack of apoplexy and advised him to discontinue for a time his severe application to the duties of his office, and all other mental exertions, but the warning came too late the mandate had gone forth the thread was breaking at the time the warning was pronounced."[1]
He served as president of the New York State Medical Society in 1826.[4] On July 11, 1828, he gave an eulogium address on De Witt Clinton, the recently deceased governor of New York at the request of a joint committee of the Medical Society and College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the hall of Columbia College.[5] In 1849, he served as the vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine.[6][7]
In 1844, he was chosen as the 4th President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.[6]
Personal life edit
In 1804, Dr. Manley was married to Elizabeth "Betsy" Post, the daughter of Col. Anthony Post,[8] "one of the old and highly respectable Dutch residents of New-York," who had a prominent country seat at Bloomingdale.[1] After their marriage, they moved to Greenwich Village,[9] and in 1841, he lived at 19 White Street and in 1844, he resided at 74 Second Avenue.[6] Together, they were the parents of three children, one unmarried daughter predeceased him, including:[1]
- James Manley, also a doctor.[1]
- Emma Catharine Manley (1806–1863),[10] a poet and novelist who married Daniel Embury (1795–1864),[11] president of the Atlantic Bank in Brooklyn,[12] in 1828.[13]
Dr. Manley died, aged 70, on November 21, 1851.[6] Through his daughter Emma, he was the grandfather of Daniel Embury Jr. (1835–1869), Philip Augustus Embury (1836–1861) (who was murdered in Fishkill, New York in 1861),[14] and James William Embury,[15] and one daughter Anna K. Sheldon.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York. 1852. p. 54. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Manley Family Newsletter. 1984. p. lxxxiv. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Manley., 1781-1851, James R.; College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York. (1839). Introductory Address to the Students In Medicine of the College of Physicians And Surgeons of the University of the State of New-York: Delivered Nov. 6, 1839. New-York: Published by the students. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Office (U.S.), Library of the Surgeon-General's (1887). Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army: Authors and subjects. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 581. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Manley, James R. (1828). An eulogium on De Witt Clinton, late governor or the state of New-York. Delivered at the request of a joint committee of the Medical Society and College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the hall of Columbia College, on Friday, 11th July, 1828. Printed by Gould & Jacobus. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d Youngs, Florence Evelyn Pratt; Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1914). Portraits of the Presidents of The Society, 1835-1914. New York, NY: Order of the Society. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ The United States Medical and Surgical Journal: A Quarterly Magazine of the Homœopathic Practice of Medicine and Medical Science in General. ... . Volume I-IX, 1865-74. 1835. p. 221. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Mott, Hopper Striker (1908). The New York of Yesterday: A Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale, Its Topographical Features, Its Early Families and Their Genealogies, Its Old Homesteads and Country-seats, Its French Invasion, and Its War Experiences Considered, in Their Relation to Its First Religious Society, the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Organized [in] 1805, Incorporated [in] 1806 as the Church at Harsenville. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 320. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ New York State Journal of Medicine. Medical Society of the State of New York. 1908. pp. 421–428. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Baym, Nina (1995). American women writers and the work of history, 1790-1860. Rutgers University Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780813521428. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1905. p. 56.
- ^ "A Citizen of Brooklyn Murdered at Fishkill--The Murderer Unknown" (PDF). The New York Times. 5 November 1861. p. 8. ProQuest 91620442. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Embury, Emma (Catherine) Manley". www.encyclopedia.com. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Reward for the Murderer of Embury" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 November 1861. p. 4. ProQuest 91633389. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Abbott, Austin (1878). New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York. Ward & Peloubet. p. 406. Retrieved 12 April 2019.