University of Virginia Library

JOHN VAUGHAN KEAN

431. In the manuscript collection at the Alderman Library there are letters
of application for the library position from A. MacDonald of Philadelphia
(6 December 1824), from John L. Thomas of Charlottesville(8 January 1825),
from William H. Elliott of Charlotte Court House, Virginia(31 December 1825),
from John A. Taliaferro of Charlottesville(15 January 1826), and from Mann
A. Page of Fredericksburg(16 January 1826).

432. Andrew Kean, Charlottesville, to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1825.
This letter is in the Alderman Library manuscript collection. The quotation
concerning John Vaughan Kean's previous education is from that letter.

433. Hackle, Emma Jeane. Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Chief of the Bureau of
War, Confederate War Department: A Biographical Study. A Thesis Presented
to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the
Degree of Master of Arts, August 1952. Miss Hackle had access to Kean
family papers through Dr. Robert Hill Kean.

434. The expression "beloved old Doctor" is taken from Wight, Richard
Cunningham, The Story of Goochland, Enlarged edition, Richmond, 1943, p. 68.

435. Anderson, L. B., Brief Biographies of Virginia Physicians of Olden
Times, Richmond, 1889, p. 6; Wingfield, Marshall, A History of Caroline
County, Virginia, Richmond, 1924, p. 157 (this sketch of John Vaughan Kean
borrows largely from Anderson); Miss Hackle's thesis, which seems to verify
fully the story of the offer of the professorship of medicine at the University
of Virginia.

436. University Catalogue, session of 1825, p. 5.

437. The "Napoleon" title is found in Wight, Richard Cunningham, The Story
of Goochland, Enlarged edition, Richmond, 1943, p. 68.

438. The birth (1803) and death (1876) dates are accepted from Miss Hackle's
thesis, which is based on family records. Marshall Wingfield gives the
birth date as 1802.

439. The pupil was L. R. Anderson, and the Latin description of Kean's
manner is given on page one of his Brief Biographies of Virginia Physicians
of Olden Times. The Marshall Wingfield book borrows from Anderson.

440. Barringer-Garnett-Page, vol. 1, pp. 384-385; Brock, Robert Alonzo,
Virginia and Virginians ... Richmond, 1888, vol. 2, pp. 571, 572;
Bruce, vol. 3, pp. 221; vol. 4, p. 198. A Civil War diary kept by R.G.H.
Kean and presented to the University Library by General Kean and his son
is in process of being edited for publication by Prof. Edward Younger of
the University of Virginia Faculty.

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441. General Kean received an M.D. degree from the University of Virginia
in 1883. For an outline of his career see Who's Who in America, vol. 26,
1950-1951, p. 1445. He died in September 1950, and is buried at Monticello.
His son, Robert Hill Kean, received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the
University in 1938. Father and son received elections to the Raven Society
that same year, 1938.

442. See indices to Annual Reports of the Archivist, University of Virginia
Library.