DR. JAMES MCHENRY, born in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland, December
20, 1785, died there July 20, 1845. He was graduated in medicine at
Dublin University and Glasgow, and first located in practice at
Larne, whence he removed to Belfast. He came to the United States in
1817 and followed his profession in Baltimore, Md., and Pittsburgh,
Pa. In 1824 he settled in Philadelphia, where he practiced medicine
and carried on a mercantile business. From 1842 to the time of his
death he was United States Consul at Londonderry, in Ireland. His
home in Philadelphia was the resort of most of the literary people of
that and other cities. He published a poem on the _Pleasures of
Friendship_ in 1822. He was editor of the _American Monthly Magazine_
in Philadelphia in 1824, and wrote and published a number of novels.
THE USURPER. A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts. Philadelphia, 1829.
16mo, pp. 65.
Played at the old Chestnut Street Theatre.