The son of George deKay, a sea captain, and Catherine Coleman. Brother of Commodore George Coleman DeKay. He married Janet Eckford 31 July 1831. He graduated as a physician from Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1819. He had a strong interest in the natural sciences and was a founder of the Lyceum of Natural History.
AMERICAN OBITUARY.
1851….
Nov. 21.--In Oyster Bay, Long Island, Dr. James E. De Kay, aged 59. He was educated as a physician, but devoted himself from his early years to Natural History, and in the State Survey of New York the department of Zoology was assigned to him.
--The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 1853, p. 334.
AMERICAN OBITUARY.
1851….
Nov. 21.--In Oyster Bay, Long Island, Dr. James E. De Kay, aged 59. He was educated as a physician, but devoted himself from his early years to Natural History, and in the State Survey of New York the department of Zoology was assigned to him.
--The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 1853, p. 334.
The son of George deKay, a sea captain, and Catherine Coleman. Brother of Commodore George Coleman DeKay. He married Janet Eckford 31 July 1831. He graduated as a physician from Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1819. He had a strong interest in the natural sciences and was a founder of the Lyceum of Natural History.
AMERICAN OBITUARY.
1851….
Nov. 21.--In Oyster Bay, Long Island, Dr. James E. De Kay, aged 59. He was educated as a physician, but devoted himself from his early years to Natural History, and in the State Survey of New York the department of Zoology was assigned to him.
--The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 1853, p. 334.
AMERICAN OBITUARY.
1851….
Nov. 21.--In Oyster Bay, Long Island, Dr. James E. De Kay, aged 59. He was educated as a physician, but devoted himself from his early years to Natural History, and in the State Survey of New York the department of Zoology was assigned to him.
--The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1853 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.), 1853, p. 334.
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