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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (KELLOGG KING.) 



doin College in 1840, studied at Andover Theolog- 

 ical Seminary, and in 1844 he was ordained pastor 

 of the Congregational church in Harps well. Re- 

 signing his pastorate in 1855, he removed to Bos- 

 ton, where for ten years he was chaplain of the 

 Seamen's Friend Society. He was subsequently 

 in charge of a Congregational church at Rock- 

 port, Mass., but after a short time returned to 

 Harpswell, which was his home for the rest of 

 his life. While a student at Andover he wrote 

 the famous blank-verse address, Spartacus to the 

 Gladiators, familiar to every American school- 

 boy, as well as Regulus to the Carthaginians and 

 Pericles to the People, and on his return to Harps- 

 well he began writing books tor young people, 

 Charlie Bell, the Waif of Elm Island (1868), being 

 the first. His juvenile tales still continue popu- 

 lar, but his fame is likely to be longest preserved 

 by the Spartacus. He published also The Ark 

 of Elm Island (1869); The Boy Farmer of Elm 

 Island (1870); Hardscrabble of Elm Island 

 (1870): Norman Cline (-1870); The Young Ship- 

 builders of Elm Island (1870); Arthur Brown, 



The Spark of Genius (1871); The Child of the 

 Island Glen (1872) ; John Godso's Legacy (1873) ; 

 Sowed by the Wind (1873); The Turning of the 

 Tide (1873); A Stout Heart (1873); Winning his 

 Spurs (1873); The Fisher Boys of Pleasant Cove 

 (1874); Wolf Run (1875); Brought to the Front 

 (1876); The Mission of Black Rifle (1876); For- 

 est Glen (1877) ; Good Old Times (1877) ; Burying 

 the Hatchet (1878); A Strong Arm and a Moth- 

 er's Blessing (1880); The Unseen Hand (1882); 

 The Live Oak Boys (1883). 



Kellogg, George, inventor, born in Pine 

 Meadow, Conn., June 19, 1812; died in New Hart- 

 ford, Conn., May 6, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Wesley an University in 1837, and after engaging 

 for a short time in the manufacture of machin- 

 ery he was principal of Sumter Academy, Sumter- 

 ville, S. C., from 1838 to 1841. He then became 

 a manufacturer in Birmingham, Conn., and in 

 1855 removed to New York city to educate his 

 daughter, Clara Louise, who at an early age at- 

 tracted attention by the quality of her voice. 

 From 1863 to 1866 he was a United States rev- 

 enue officer, and afterward engaged in manufac- 

 turing and in experiments at Cold Spring, N. Y. 

 He was an expert in shorthand writing and made 

 many additions to the methods of studying 

 stenography. For his mechanical knowledge and 

 inventive ability he was called as an expert wit- 

 ness in many notable patent cases. His more 

 important inventions were a machine for making 

 jack-chain at the rate of a yard a minute (1844) ; 

 a dovetailing machine (1849); a type distributor 

 (1852); an obstetrical forceps (1853); and an 

 adding apparatus (1869). In 1845 he established 

 a manufactory of hooks and eyes, with American 

 machinery, at Redditch, England, and in 1868 he 

 began to make hats in London, under a patent 

 issued to his brother, Albert Kellogg, the botanist 

 and inventor. 



Kendall, Edward Hale, architect, born in 

 Boston, Mass., July 31, 1842; died in New York 

 city, March 10, 1901. He was educated at the 

 Boston Latin School and at the School of Fine 

 Arts in Paris. He was the architect of the orig- 

 inal Equitable Life Assurance Building and of the 

 Methodist Book Concern Building, both in New 

 York city, and the New York houses of Robert 

 and Ogden Goelet. As consulting architect of the 

 Department of Docks he directed the building of 

 the recreation piers along the New York water- 



front. He was president of the World's Conven- 

 tion of Architects in Chicago in 1893; president 

 of the New York Chapter of the Institute of 

 American Architects, 1887-'91; and president of 

 the American Institute of Architects in 1892-'93. 



Kennedy, George Nestor, jurist, born in Mar- 

 cellus, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1822; died in Thousand 

 Island Park, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1901. He studied 

 law, and was admitted to practise in 1842. In 

 1854 he removed to Syracuse. He w 7 as a delegate 

 to the convention that nominated Martin Van 

 Buren for the presidency in 1848, and to the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention of 1856. He was 

 elected to the State Senate in 1863, and served 

 till 1871. While there he served as chairman of 

 the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and 

 won distinction by introducing a resolution op- 

 posing the granting of money to private, paro- 

 chial, and sectarian schools. He was elected jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court of New York for the 

 5th District in 1883, and was retired Jan. 1, 

 1893, having reached the age limit. 



Kimball, Lorenzo W., inventor, born in Pitts- 

 ford, Vt., May 24, 1814; died in Rutland, Vt., 

 April 13, 1901. He was a machinist and pattern- 

 maker by trade, and during his life he was en- 

 gaged in several manufacturing enterprises in 

 Brandon, Rutland, and Pittsford. During the 

 civil war he was employed in the Colt armory in 

 Hartford, Conn., and was a gun inspector in the 

 United States Arsenal in Springfield, Mass. After 

 1872 he resided in Rutland. About 1865 he bought 

 a thread factory in Pittsford, and after running 

 it as a machine-shop for a short time he sold it 

 to a straw-board manufacturing company. Mr. 

 Kimball never had seen heavy paper manufac- 

 tured before, and he was much impressed with its 

 hardness and durability. His interest led him 

 to invent the paper car-wheel. The first 12 wheels 

 he made with his own hands in a little shop in 

 Brandon. Four of them were put under one end 

 of a freight-car and run on the Rutland Railroad 

 several months. The other 8 were put under 

 a Pullman palace-car and run 500,000 miles with- 

 out repairing anything but the steel tires. These 

 tests demonstrated the practicability of the in- 

 vention, and Mr. Kimball and Mr. Allen, of the 

 paper firm, took out patents and began the manu- 

 facture of the wheels in Pittsford. After two 

 years the plant was removed to Hudson, N. Y., 

 and the wheels, now in extensive use, are manu- 

 factured by the Pullman Car Company. Mr. Kim- 

 ball retired from the company before it left Pitts- 

 ford, and realized little from his inventions, al- 

 though his associates are said to have made a 

 fortune. He also took out patents for a paper 

 door in 1868, and in the following year for paper 

 mouldings, but these never came into general use. 



King, Clarence, geologist and author, born in 

 Newport, R. I., Jan. 6, 1842; died in Phoenix, 

 Arizona, Dec. 24, 1901. He received his early 

 education in Hartford, Conn., where, at the high 

 school, Mary A. Dodge (Gail Hamilton) was his 

 teacher in English composition. He was gradu- 

 ated at Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1862, 

 and crossed the plains, and for three years was 

 employed in the geological survey of California, 

 under Prof. Josiah D. Whitney. In the course of 

 this work he and James Terry Gardiner made the 

 first survey of the Yosemite valley, and construct- 

 ed a complete map, from which a model was after- 

 ward made. In 1866 Mr. King went to Washington 

 to urge upon the Government his plan for a geo- 

 logical survey of the whole western part of our do- 

 main. In this he was successful, and that portion 

 of the work designated as the Survey of the Forti- 

 eth Parallel was assigned to him. With a force of 



