William James MacNeven
William James MacNeven
William James MacNeven was an Irish physician who, having sought assistance in France for the United Irish Rebellion of 1798, was forced into American exile. In the United States, he became a champion of religious and civil liberty, and a "father of American chemistry". Alongside his fellow Irish exile and abolitionist, Thomas Addis Emmet, in New York City, MacNeven is commemorated with a public m
"The very oppressions which the Irish suffer at home, teach them to prize the freedom of America more ardently than is always done by her native sons, who have the exalted privilege of knowing nothing of despotism, but what they learn from the description of other nation."
