Robert Nelson

Biography

Family

Robert Nelson is born in William-Henry (today Sorel-Tracy) the August 8th 1793. He receives his baptism in October with the Christ Anglican Church of Montreal. He is the son of William Nelson, a teacher of New York, native of Nesham in Yorkshire, and Jane Dies, girl of a land great landowner of the area of the Hudson river. Loyal supporters, they leave the State of New York after the American revolution.

Education

He studies medicine with Montreal near the doctor Daniel Arnoldi, then with the Université Harvard in the Massachusetts.

Doctor and surgeon

He begins the practice from medicine in the month of April 1814, towards the end of the Guerre of 1812. He is immediately appointed surgeon on behalf of the Deschambault Corp , but on July 26th he is transferred to the service of the Indian Braves Corp . To the return of peace, it voluntarily offers its services to Mohawks of the communities of Caughnawaga, Oka, Saint-Governed and Saint-François.

In 1817, it sétablit street Saint-Gabriel in Montreal, in the old residence of Pierre-Hertel de Beaubassin, close to the law courts.

In 1821 and another time in 1826, it takes steps near the Dalhousie governor so that it allots to him the post of surgeon appointed of the Indians. It succeeded in not obtaining the station.

Deputy

In 1827, it makes the jump in policy with the invitation of his brother, Wolfred Nelson, also doctor and member of the patriotic Parti. He is elected appointed in the electoral constituency of Montreal-West at the sides of Louis-Joseph Papineau.

In 1829, it succeeds Doctor William Dunbar Selby following the death of this last. In 1830, it is withdrawn from the policy and begins the teaching of the surgery.

During the cholera epidemic of 1832, it comes to assistance of the sick immigrants of the Point-Saint-Charles.

In 1832, he is elected president of the Amis of freedom of press and the following year he becomes member of the Comité of the guet and lighting for the town of Montreal. He gives also courses of physiology to the New Medical school of Montreal.

He is re-elected appointed of Montreal-West to the general elections of 1834. The same year, he is re-elected with the Council of town of Montreal and fact chairs medical Office of the city. He becomes thereafter an important spokesperson of the movement reformist and patriotic Party.

He is member of the Central committee and permanent of Montreal set up about the month of April 1834. He takes part in some of the popular assemblies held during this extremely agitated period.

Arrest

November 24th 1837, Nelson is stopped, like are several other politicians and citizens opposed to the government. It is released the following day due to irregularity in its mandate of arrest. It immediately leaves Low-Canada to join the patriots who exiled themselves with the the United States.

President of the Republic

January 2nd, 1838, Robert Nelson like good number of exiled, whose Papineau, O' Callaghan, Chartier, Rodier, Malhiot, Side, Bouthillier, Davignon and Gagnon are with Middlebury in the State of Vermont to discuss of a project of military takeover of Low-Canada. The patriots then present voted for the fast establishment of a Provisional government and the launching of an attack starting from the United States. Certain influential patriots voted against this option, of which Louis-Joseph Papineau, which believed inevitable the failure of an invasion carried out without the official support of a military power like that of the United States or France.

Robert Nelson was high with the row of general and elected official President of the République of Low-Canada.

February 28th, 1838, Nelson camped its some 300 to 400 men, of the patriots low-Canadian and the American volunteers, with Alburgh in the State of Vermont. He proclaimed the independence of Low-Canada and distributed copies of a declaration of independence. Soon, they were stopped by the American Armée for violation with the law of neutrality of the United States. A jury sympathetic nerve with the patriotic cause released Nelson, as well as other patriots.

After this fallen through attempt, Robert Nelson and others insurgent decided to organize a new offensive.

Association of the Brothers hunters

A clandestine, known military organization under the name of Brothers hunters, was created with an aim of reversing the British colonial governments Top and Low-Canada, and of establishing sovereign and democratic republics in their place. A second invasion of Low-Canada began on November 3rd, 1838. The offensive plan met the unforeseen ones and failures and the brothers hunters had to beat a retreat.

Return to medicine

Nelson and the other patriotic chiefs obtained possibly the Amnistie and the British government colonial allowed them to return to Low-Canada, which was made by several. Robert Nelson remained however in the United States.

In 1849, it is in California, practitioner medicine with Doctor Joseph-Guillaume Beaudriau.

In 1851, it is of return in the American East and is established in New York. It practices some surgeries on patients of Montreal in 1863 and in 1866, it publishes Asiatic cholera: its origin and spread in Asia, Africa, and Europe, ''

He dies in Staten Island, New York, on March 1st, 1873. He is buried with the Cimetière Our-Lady-of-Snows in Montreal.

Chronology

1793 - on August 8th, birth of Robert Nelson in Sorel.
1793 - In October, baptism with Christ Church Anglican.
1814 - on April 21st, he east admitted with the practice of medicine.
1814 - In April, it is appointed surgeon of the 7th battalions (Corps Fleury-Deschambault).
1814 - on July 26th, it is transferred to the body of the Indian Warriors.
1817 - It sétablit street Saint-Gabriel in Montreal, in the old residence of Pierre-Hertel de Beaubassin.
1827 - He is elected appointed in the county of Montreal-West.
1829 - It succeeds Doctor W.D. Selby at the hospital of Hôtel-Dieu.
1830 - It is withdrawn from the policy and begins the teaching of the surgery.
1831 - It receives an honorary doctorate of the Collège of Dartmouth, in Hanover in New Hampshire.
1832 - He is president of the association of the Amis of freedom of the press .
1833 - He is member of the Comité of the guet and lighting for the town of Montreal. He gives also courses of physiology to the New Medical school of Montreal.
1834 - He is elected appointed in the county of in Montreal-West. He is also president of the medical Office and member of the Council of town of Montreal.
1837 - on March 28th, birth of his/her Eugene son.
1837 - on November 24th, it is stopped as a suspect of high treason.
1837 - on November 25th, it is released due to irregularities in its mandate of arrest. It then leaves Low-Canada for the United States with its family.
1838 - on January 2nd, it is at the assembly of the exiled patriots with Middlebury in Vermont.
1838 - on February 28th, it is with the head from the 300 to 400 men who invade Canada starting from Alburgh in Vermont.
1838 - It sets up the secret society of the Brothers hunters which aims at the inversion of the government low-Canadian.
1838 - on November 4th, it is in Napierville with P. Touvrey and Charles Hindenlang.
1838 - on November 8th, after what has is included/understood like an attempt at escape of its share, it is bound by François Trépanier and François Nicolas. It is released thereafter after explanation.
1838 - on November 9th, it east demolishes in Odelltown and regains the United States thereafter.
1838 - In December, a report/ratio of the British consulate in New York claims that Robert Nelson and his follower plot in order to assassinate John Colborne.
1849 - It practices medicine in California with Doctor Joseph-Guillaume Beaudriau.
1851 - In June, it is of return in the American East and is established in New York.
1863 - In October, it practices some surgeries on patients of Montreal.
1866 - It publishes Asiatic cholera: its origin and spread in Asia, Africa, and Europe, ''.

1873 - on March 1st, it dies on Giffords Lane, Staten Island, New York.

Works

Declaration of independence of Low-Canada , the United States, 1838
With the people of Canada , the United States, 1838
“cardinal The three means off the art off healing by C.W. Hufeland”, in Hufeland, Christopher Wilhelm, Enchiridion medicum; however Manual off the practice off medicine. The result off fifty years' experiment , from the 6th German ED., New York, Raddle, 1842
Asiatic cholera: its origin and spread in Asia, Africa, and Europe, introduced into America through Canada; remote and proximate causes, symptoms and pathology, and the various modes off treatment analyzed , New York, 1866

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