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.: 10  He was also the seventh librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, occupying that position from October 1809, to April, 1812.: 34  It was during this time that he created the first catalog of the Boston Athenæum.

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