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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



ment of Dr. Kennedy. In 1888 he removed to Louis- 

 ville, Ky., and became proprietor of the celebrated 

 cannel-c'oal mine in Breckenridge County. 



King, John H., soldier, born in Michigan, about 1818 ; 

 died m Washington, D. (J., April 7, 1888. He was 

 appointed a second lieutenant in the United States 

 Army, Dec. 2, 1837, promoted first lieutenant March 

 2, 1839, and captain Oct. 31, 1846; was on duty on 

 the Western frontier till the Mexican War, and served 

 with distinction at Vera Cruz in 1847. On May 14, 

 1861, he was promoted major and assigned to the Fif- 

 teenth United States Infantry ; Nov. 29, 1862, was 

 commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers ; May 

 31, 1865, was brevetted major-general ; July 30, 1865, 

 was commissioned colonel in the permanent establish- 

 ment; and Feb. 6, 1882, was retired. During the 

 civil war he was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, 

 Murfreesboroiujh, Cliickamauga, Resaca, New Hope 

 Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree and Utoy 

 Creeks. He received brevets in the regular army of 

 colonel for services at Chickamauga, brigadier-general 

 for Rulf 's station, and major-general for gallantry in 

 the field through the war. lie bad lived quietly in 

 Washington since his retirement. 



King, John Pendleton, lawyer, born in Glasgow, Bar- 

 ren County, Ky., April 3, 1799 ; died in Augusta, Ga., 

 March 19,1888. In 1815 his parents settled in Au- 

 gusta, where he resided until his death. He was 

 graduated at Richmond Academy, Augusta, and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1819. On Nov. 21, 1833, he was 

 elected United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the resignation of George M. Trotip, and took his 

 Beat in the following month. In November, 1834, he 

 was re-elected for a full term, but only served two 

 years, his opposition to certain measures of the Ad- 

 ministration leading the press of his State to criticise 

 him severely. He served one year as judge of the 

 Court of Common Pleas, was president of the Georgia 

 Railroad and Banking Company from 1841 till 1878 ? 

 and also, for some years, president of the Atlanta ana 

 West Point Railroad, which he planned and completed. 

 He was a member of the State Convention of 1865. 

 which repealed the ordinance of secession, repudiated 

 the Confederate war debt, and abolished slavery. 



Kissam, Agnes Allen, centenarian, born in New York 

 city, March 4, 1788 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 

 25, 1888. She was born in Greenwich Street, and 

 when a young lady passed the summers in her father's 

 country-house just above the present Canal Street, 

 and for some years had a city residence on Bowling 

 Green. On her hundreth birthday she received sever- 

 al hundred relatives and family friends for six hours, 

 without being fatigued, and showed that she retained 

 her faculties. She hau been a widow fifty years. 



Zrekel, Arnold, lawyer, born in Germany, March 12, 

 1815; died in Kansas City, Mo., July 15, 1888. He 

 came to the United States in 1832, attended St. Charles 

 College, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1841. In 1852 he was elected to the State Legislature, 

 and in 1865 was president of the State Constitutional 

 Convention. In the latter year he was appointed 

 United States District Judge for the Western District 

 of Missouri, and he held the office till his death. 



Lamy, John Baptist, clergyman, born in Auvergne, 

 France, in 1814; died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Feb. 

 13, 1883. He was educated and ordained a pnest of 

 the Roman Catholic Church in France, came to the 

 United States as a missionary, and filled his first pas- 

 torate in Danville, Ohio, in 1839. He labored in that 

 immediate field till 1848, when he was appointed pus- 

 tor of a church in Covington, Ky., then in the Cincin- 

 nati diocese. Soon after the acquisition by the United 

 States of the province of New Mexico, the Pope erect- 

 ed the territory into a vicariatc-apostolic, and appoint- 

 ed Father Lamy to that change. He was consecrated 

 Bishop of Agathonica and vicar-apostolic on Nov. 24, 

 1850. The see of Santa FC" was erected in July. 

 1863, and Dr. Lamy was elected its first bishop ; ana 

 in 1875 the see was made archicpiscopal, with Bishop 

 Lamy as archbishop. In 1885 he resigned on account 



of feeble health. When he went to New Mexico he 

 was the first Roman Catholic bishop that had visited 

 it in eighty years, and when he resigned the diocese 

 contained 34 parish churches, 2u3 chapeis, 56 priests, 

 110,000 Catholics of Spanish originj 3,000 English- 

 speaking Catholics, 12,000 Pueblo Indians under Cath- 

 olic instruction, and colleges, academies, hospitals, 

 and asylums. 



Lane, Harvey Bradbnrn, biblionhilist, born in Plym- 

 outh, Wyoming valley, Pa., Jan. 10, 1813; died in 

 Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1888. He was 

 graduated at Wesleyan University in 1835, spent a 

 year in European travel, taught for a year in Wilbra- 

 Dom Academy, and in 1838 removed to Georgia. He 

 was a civil engineer in the survey for the first railroad 

 constructed across that State, and, after enjht'.'f.n 

 months' service, was Professor of Mathematics suc- 

 cessively in Oxford Collctre, Georgia ; Dickinson Col- 

 lege, Carlisle, Pa.; and Wesleyan University, Mid- 

 dletown, Conn. In the latter institution he was Pro- 

 fessor oi Greek from 1844 till 1860, when he removed 

 to New York city to become assistant editor of the 

 "American Agriculturist." About 1868 he estab- 

 lished himself as a collector of rare and valuable books 

 for private and public libraries, and continued in this 

 business until his death. 



Lane, James 0., civil engineer, born in New York 

 city, July 23, 1823; died there, Dec. 13, 1888. He 

 was graduated at Poultney Academy, Vt.. in 1841, 

 engaged in business as an architect ana civil engineer 

 till 1851, aided in the construction of the Illinois Cen- 

 tral Railroad, entered the United States Coast Survey 

 in 1852, and was employed in exploring in New Gra- 

 nada for an interoceanic canal company, and in min- 

 eralogical surveying in Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, 

 and Cuba till the outbreak of the civil war. Return- 

 ing to New York city, he was commissioned major of 

 the the One Hundred and Second New York Volun- 

 teers, and assigned to the command of McCall's camp 

 at Dranesville. In April and May, 1862, ho was in 

 command of the defenses of Harper's Ferry, Va., and 

 in July was promoted lieutenant-colonel. He com- 

 manded his regiment at Cedar Mountain, the second 

 Bull Run, Chantilly, and Antietam. in 1862. In De- 

 cember, 1862, he was promoted colonel. At the battle 

 of Chancellors ville his regiment captured sixty-two 

 Confederate officers and men and a flag. At Gettys- 

 burg he had command of a brigade, and was wounded. 

 On "being transferred to the West, he led the advance 

 on Lookout mountain ; was conspicuous at Mission 

 Ridge and in the Georgia campaign, and was brevetted 

 brigadier and major general of volunteers. He was 

 mustered out July 12, 1864. Subsequently he was 

 engaged in mincralogical surveys in California, Ari- 

 zona, and Nevada ; in archseological surveys in Pales- 

 tine and the Jordan region; in railroad construction 

 on Long Island, and since 1884 in surveying for the 

 new parks beyond Harlem river, New York city. 



Lassalle, Charles, journalist, born in Liege, Belgium, 

 in Oct., 1817 ; died' in Green Cove, Fla., Jan. 28,1888. 

 Pie accompanied Sir John Ross on his arctic expedi- 

 tion in the " Victory " in 1829-'33, and on his return 

 settled first in Canada and then in New York city. 

 After serving an apprenticeship as a compositor, he 

 established a printing-office of his own, in which the 

 French newspaper, the " Courrier des Etats-Unis," 

 conducted by Frederick Gaillardet, was printed. In 

 1851, on the retirement of the proprietor, Mr. Lassalle 

 became owner of the paper and conducted its edi- 

 torial and business departments till 1882, when he 

 retired from active business. He was a keen journal- 

 ist, a man of quick perceptions, and sterling integrity. 

 His paper was a steadfast promoter of the interests of 

 his adopted country and city. He was a liberal pa- 

 tron of art. 



Lecompte, Samuel Dexter, lawyer, born in Maryland 

 in 1814; died in Leavenworth, Kan., April 24, 1888. 

 He was admitted to the bar in his native State, and 

 appointed chief-justice of the Territory of Karsas in 

 1854, and held the office during all the excitement at- 



