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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (JONES KENT.) 



1854 had been in mercantile business in Saginaw, 

 Mich. In 1862 he raised and prepared for field serv- 

 ice the regiment apportioned to the 6th Congres- 

 sional District, and was elected to the State Senate, 

 where he served for six years, holding the chair- 

 manship of the Committee on State Affairs. From 

 1865 till 1873 he was President of the State Military 

 Board ; in the latter year was appointed a member 

 of the Constitutional'Commission ; in 1875 became 

 United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; and 

 in 1880 was elected Governor of Michigan as a 

 Republican. He built the Saginaw Valley and St. 

 Louis Railroad. 



Jones, George Wallace, military officer, born in 

 Vincennes, Ind., April 12, 1804; died in Dubuque, 

 Io\va r July 22, 1896. He was graduated at Transyl- 

 vania University, Kentucky, in 1825; studied law, 

 and became clerk of the United States District Court 

 for Missouri, and was admitted to the bar, but was 

 prevented from practicing by failing health. Be- 

 ing ordered into the woods to recuperate, he took a 

 dozen slaves and a number of hired men, went to 

 Sinsinawa Mound (then in Michigan Territory, but 

 now in Wisconsin), near Dubuque, and engaged in 

 mining, smelting, farming, and trading till restored 

 to health. On the outbreak of the Black Hawk 

 war in 1832 he became an aid to Gen. Henry Dodge, 

 and at its close the pioneers of Michigan Territory 

 elected him colonel of militia, and later he was com- 

 missioned a major general. In 1835 he was elected 

 Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Michigan. 

 In 1839 President Van Burcn appointed him sur- 

 veyor general of the Northwest Territory. President 

 Harrison removed him, and President Polk n -ap- 

 pointed him. He was elected the first United States 

 Senator from Iowa in 1848, and 'served till March, 

 1859. At the close of his term President Buchanan 

 appointed him United States Minister to New 

 Grenada (now the United States of Columbia). 

 While there, and ignorant of the outbreak of the 

 civil war. he wrote a friendly letter to Jefferson 

 Davis. The letter fell into the hands of Secretary 

 Seward, who at once recalled Gen. Jones, and on 

 his return imprisoned him in Fort Warren for sixty- 

 four days, when President Lincoln, believing him 

 innocent, ordered his release. 



Jones, John Edward, governor, born in North 

 Wales, Pa., Dec. 5, 1840; died in San Francisco, 

 Cal.. April 10, 1896. He was educated at Iowa State 

 University ; spent several years teaching ; and. after 

 engaging in mining in Wyoming and Colorado, re- 

 moved to Nevada in 1870, and pursued that indus- 

 try there till 1883, when he was appointed United 

 States deputy collector of revenue. In November, 

 1886, he was elected Surveyor General of Nevada, 

 and in 1890 was re-elected. He was elected Gov- 

 ernor of the State on the Silver ticket in 1894, and 

 entered on the discharge of his duty Jan. 8, 1895. 



Jones, Joseph Blackburn, military officer, born 

 in Highland, 111., Sept. 7, 1840; died near Yonkers, 

 N. Y., April 28, 1896. He was educated at the 

 Northwestern University of Illinois, studied law, 

 and had begun practicing when the civil war broke 

 out. He raised a company for the 15th Illinois In- 

 fantry, and went to the front for three years. He 

 was commissioned colonel on June 27, 1864, was seri- 

 ously wounded at Fort Blakely while commanding 

 a brigade, and was brevetted brigadier general of 

 volunteers on March 13, 1865. He resumed law 

 practice at Sparta, 111., won distinction as a crimi- 

 nal lawyer, and afterward had charge of large rail- 

 road, pine-lumbering, and iron-mining interests. 



Keely, Patrick C., architect, born in Kilkenny, 

 Ireland, Aug. 9, 1816; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 

 12. 1896. He studied architecture with his father, 

 and assisted in designing and building several 

 churches before he left Ireland. He had lived in 



Brooklyn since 1841. He was the pioneer Catholic 

 architect of America, and had designed and built 

 more than 600 churches in the United States, in- 

 cluding the cathedrals in Chicago, Providence, Bos- 

 ton, and Hartford. Every Roman Catholic cathe- 

 dral in New York State, excepting St. Patrick's, in 

 New York city, the majority of those in New Eng- 

 land, and many in Canada, were built by him. lie 

 also designed and built the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church of the Redeemer, completed the spire of the 

 Church of the Holy Trinity, and designed the 

 Church of St. John the Baptist, with the seminary 

 and college attachment, all in Brooklyn, and de'- 

 signed the Jesuit Church in Sixteenth Street, New 

 York, which is considered the best type of Roman 

 ecclesiastical architecture in America. Mr. Keely 

 was the second man to receive the gold medal 

 awarded annually by the University of Notre Dame, 

 Indiana, to the most distinguished Roman Catholic 

 in the United States. 



Kennedy, Alfred L., scientist, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1818; died there Jan. 30, 1896. 

 He was graduated at the University of Pennsylva- 

 nia in 1848, studied in Paris and Leipsic, and be- 

 gan practicing medicine in Philadelphia in 1853. 

 For several years he was connected with the Penn- 

 sylvania Medical College as Assistant Professor of 

 Chemistry and lecturer on chemical physics, gen- 

 eral and medical botany, and medical jurisprudence 

 and toxicology; with the Philadelphia School of 

 Medicine as lecturer and Professor of Medical Chem- 

 istry: and with the Franklin Institute as lecturer 

 on industrial botany and agricultural chemistry. 

 He was the founder of the Philadelphia School of 

 Chemistry and its president from 1842 till 1853, 

 when it was chartered as the Polytechnic College of 

 Pennsylvania, and he remained at its head till 1895. 

 During the civil war he was a volunteer surgeon in 

 the 2d Army Corps, and in 1863 was commissioned 

 colonel of engineers. He published " Practical 

 Chemistry a Branch of Medical Education" (Phila- 

 delphia, 1852). 



Kenrick. Peter Richard, archbishop, born in 

 Dublin, Ireland. Aug. 17, 1806; died in St. Louis, 

 Mo., Mar. 4, 1896. He was a brother of the late 

 Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, of Baltimore; was 

 educated at Maynooth College, and ordained a priest 

 in 1832 ; and removed to Philadelphia, of which his 

 brother was then bishop, in 1833. He there became 

 rector of the theological seminary of the diocese, 

 rector of the cathedral, vicar general, and editor of 

 "The Catholic Herald." In 1841 he was conse- 

 crated Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis, in 1843 be- 

 came full bishop, and in 1847 archbishop. He was 

 an active supporter of the Union during the civil 

 war, and was zealous in relieving the sick and 

 wounded of both armies. On Nov. 30, 1891, his 

 golden jubilee was celebrated with many manifesta- 

 tions of popular esteem. He was given a coadjutor 

 in 1872, and was deposed in 1895 because of mental 

 infirmities. 



Kent, Mehetabel Young 1 , philanthropist, born 

 in New York city, May 23, 1818; died in Detroit. 

 Mich.. Sept. 20, 1896. She was a daughter of Wil- 

 liam Gerard, and when fifteen years old established 

 the first mission Sunday school in New York city, 

 by gathering poor children who would not be ad- 

 mitted into the regular Sunday schools and holding 

 simple exercises for them in a room that she hired 

 for the purpose. Later in life she worked zealously 

 to promote many charitable institutions. In 1880 

 Mrs. Kent founded in Washington, I). C., the Wom- 

 an's National Relief Association, and in the last 

 fifteen years of her life she had been particularly 

 interested in building up the Blue Anchor Society, 

 or New York State auxiliary to the national associa- 

 tion. The special aim of this branch is to furnish 



