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scientific and professional men naturalists, min- 

 ing engineers, geologists, surveyors, besides labor- 

 ers and teamsters, numbering in all about 100 

 he set himself to the task, which was under the 



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auspices of the engineering department of the 

 army. This occupied five years, and was com- 

 pleted in 1872. Of the 6 large volumes that make 

 up the report, the first, entitled Systematic Geol- 

 ogy, was written by Mr. King, and has been 

 admired for the perfection of its literary style 

 as well as its scientific value. His paleontolog- 

 ical discoveries furnished the evidence by which 

 the age of the gold-bearing rocks was determined. 

 In 1872 certain swindlers attempted a great fraud 

 by " salting " a certain territory in Arizona with 

 rough diamonds, and then announcing the dis- 

 covery of rich diamond-fields. The trick was de- 

 tected and exposed by Mr. King, and the scheme 

 failed. He originated and promoted the plan for 

 a permanent geological bureau, bringing all the 

 Government work under one director, and when 

 the bill was passed by Congress, in 1878, he was 

 placed at the head of it. But three years later 

 he resigned, for personal and financial reasons. 

 He at once had a large practise as a mining 

 expert, and became interested in several min- 

 ing enterprises in the Western Territories and in 

 Mexico. He also carried on a long and costly 

 series of experiments and observations in physical 

 geology, the results of which were contributed to 

 Silliman's Journal for January, 1893, under the 

 title The Age of the Earth. He published in the 

 Atlantic Monthly, in 1871, a series of papers that 

 were issued the next year in book form under the 

 title Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, which 

 are perhaps the most brilliant literary productions 

 that ever came from the pen of a professional 

 scientist. The book was republished in England, 

 and had a large sale in both countries. His other 

 contributions to periodicals include a notable 

 story entitled The Helmet of Mambrino, which 

 appeared in the Century in 1886, and an essay 

 entitled Artium Magister in the North American 



Review. Mr. King h;i<i ;\ 



in its various forms, ;m 



classical literature. In 



of the most remarkable men 



powers as a ruwtnti'.iir cans 



" The trouble with King is, \ \\-.\\ 



of a sunset spoils the origins i. 



much time in successive trips to hiii',]. 



sailed on many seas. His lasl travel- 



the Klondike region. He was a memi> < <, 



National Academy of Sciences. Mr. Kin^ 



one of the kindest hearted of men, and did"m;uiy 



deeds of benevolence that involved personal ii-k 



as well as pecuniary outlay. He never married. 



Knipe, Joseph Farmer, soldier, born in 

 Mount Joy, Pa., Nov. 30, 1823; died in Harris- 

 burg, Pa., Aug. 18, 1901. He served in the rank* 

 in the Mexican War, and afterward he engaged 

 in business in Harrisburg. In 1861 he organized 

 the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers and became its 

 colonel; he was commissioned brigadier-general 

 of volunteers in 1862. He served with the Army ' 

 of the Potomac and that of the Cumberland, and 

 commanded a division at the fall of Atlanta, 

 afterward serving as chief of cavalry in the Army 

 of the Tennessee. He was twice wounded at 

 Winchester, Va., twice at Cedar Mountain, Ga., 

 and once at Resaca, Ga. He was retired at his 

 own request in September, 1865, refusing a colo- 

 nelcy in the regular service. He was postmaster 

 of Harrisburg, Pa., during the Johnson adminis- 

 tration, and for a time was superintendent of one 

 of the departments in the military prison at Fort 

 Leavenworth, Kan. 



Kraus, Adolf Robert, sculptor, born in Zeu- 

 lenroda, Germany, Aug. 5, 1850; died in Danvers, 

 Mass., Nov. 7, 1901. He was a pensioner of the 

 Prussian Government, a winner of the Grand 

 Prize of Rome, and a sculptor of reputation be- 

 fore he removed to 

 the United States 

 in 1881. His best 

 work is represent- 

 ed by the Theodore 

 Parker and Cris- 

 pus Attucks mon- 

 uments, in Boston. 

 He was the sculp- 

 tor of the winged 

 figures of Victory 

 that crowned the 

 towers of Machin- 

 ery Hall at the 

 Columbian Expo- 

 sition in Chicago 

 in 1893. Shortly 

 before his death he 

 had all but com- 

 pleted the clay . 

 model of a heroic 

 figure of Belshazzar at the moment of seeing the 

 handwriting on the wall when it began to crum- 

 ble. His failure to produce this masterpiece un- 

 balanced his mind and hastened his death. 



Kreutzer, William, soldier, born in Benton, 

 N. Y., Sept. 11, 1828; died in Lyons, N. Y.. May 

 27, 1901. He was graduated at Genesee College 

 in 1853, and afterward accepted the professor- 

 ship of Greek in that institution. He entered 

 the National army as a captain in the 98th 

 New York Volunteers, and served as adjutant- 

 general of the Department of the South, 

 was in charge of the voting of the sick soldiers 

 in the Department of Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina in 1864, and the same autumn, under Gen. 

 Butler, assisted in maintaining order in New York 

 city during the election. Meanwhile he had risen 



