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KELLUM, JOHN. 



KENTUCKY. 



the Missouri, at the solicitation of the Govern- 

 or of the State, placed United States troops 

 in advance of the settlements to prevent col- 

 lision hy guarding against contact of the sav- 

 ages with the settlers. No trouble whatever 

 occurred during the year. The commission 

 appointed by the national Secretary of War, 

 consisting of the Governor of Kansas, James 

 A. Hardee, Inspector-General U. S. A., J. D. 

 Bingham, Quartermaster U. S. A. ; and T. H. 

 Stanton, Paymaster U. S. A., to examine and 

 audit the Price raid claims, pursuant to act of 

 Congress, approved February 2, 1871, organ- 

 ized and qualified according to law at Fort 

 Leavenworth, and on the 17th of March met at 

 Topeka. Its examinations being ended, the re- 

 sult was reported to the Secretary of War at 

 Washington, and by him communicated to Con- 

 gress as a basis for an appropriation for the 

 payment of the claims. 



The State supports asylums for the blind, 

 the insane, and the deaf and dumb. In the 

 Blind Asylum during the year, there were 

 twenty pupils, three less than last year. It is 

 located at Wyandot. Its yearly expense to 

 the State is about $8,000. The number of pa- 

 tients admitted during the year to the Insane 

 Asylum, which is located at Ossawattamie, was 

 64; discharged during the same period, 24; 

 whole number in the asylum at the close of the 

 year, 75 males 36, females 39; whole num- 

 ber under treatment since the establishment 

 of the institution, 202. During the year a 

 good, substantial, and commodious building has 

 been constructed. A balance of $2,104.44 of 

 the appropriation made for this purpose re- 

 maining after the completion of the building, 

 the trustees requested power to purchase addi- 

 tional land, which was granted by the Legisla- 

 ture. In the school of the Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum there were, during the year, 56 pupils, 

 and at its close 48, against 41 for the previous 

 year. It is located at Olathe. The number 

 of convicts in the Penitentiary on the 30th of 

 November was 303, an increase of 94 during 

 the year. The greatest number confined at 

 any one time during the year was 310. The 

 estimated expense of last year, made at the 

 close of the preceding year, was $46,973.50 ; 

 but the unexpected increase in the number of 

 convicts caused an expenditure in excess of the 

 estimate; consequently, upon proper vouch- 

 ers, in pursuance of law, certificates of indebt- 

 edness, to the amount of $26,475.09, were is- 

 sued and the proceeds expended. As many of 

 the convicts as is possible are taught useful 

 trades, and before them all the idea of refor- 

 mation is kept constantly as a prominent ob- 

 ject of the institution. In the present manage- 

 ment due attention is given to the health of 

 the convicts, with the most gratifying results ; 

 and, while no wanton or unnecessary rigor is 

 practised, a thorough discipline is maintained. 



KELLUM, Jon]?, an eminent architect, born 

 in Hempstead, Long Island, August 27, 1809; 

 vlied there July 25, 1871. He began life as a 



house-carpenter in his native village* but, 

 after a few years, came to Brooklyn, and 

 worked at his trade with decided success, 

 studying architecture diligently the while. He 

 was for some years the foreman of Mr. Gamaliel 

 King, then a distinguished architect of New 

 York, and Mr. King, appreciating his abilities 

 and genius, in 1846 offered him a partnership, 

 and the firm of King & Kellum, architects, 

 became well known in New York and else- 

 where. In 1860 the firm dissolved, Mr. Kel- 

 lum taking most of the business. He soon 

 found favor among the wealthy merchants, 

 and the influence of Mr. Wilson G. Hunt, who 

 was his firm friend, was of great advantage 

 to him. He was fertile in invention, daring in 

 some of his innovations upon the rules and 

 principles of the Dry-as-dust school, but was 

 acknowleged by the best architectural critics 

 to be the most complete master of the renais- 

 sance style, as well as of classical architecture 

 in its adaptation to business purposes, in this 

 country. He was less successful in the Tudor- 

 Gothic, though some of his later designs of vil- 

 las in this style are among the best of their 

 kind. He had made iron buildings a specialty 

 of late years, from his conviction of the re- 

 markable facility with which his architectural 

 ideas could be wrought out in it. He fur- 

 nished designs for Ball, Black & Co.'s fine 

 marble building on Broadway, the Herald 

 Building, Stewart's Tenth-Street store, his 

 Working-women's Home, and his house on 

 Fifth Avenue, the Stock Exchange, and the 

 Mutual Life Insurance Company's building, as 

 well as many other stores and dwellings of the 

 first class. "He was, under the new commis- 

 sion, the architect of the New Court-House, 

 New York City, and the portico of that build- 

 ing, designed by him, has no superior as 

 an example of Corinthian architecture in the 

 United States. A native of Hempstead, and 

 deeply interested in the prosperity of his na- 

 tive town, he is believed to havfc been instru- 

 mental in inducing Mr. A. T. Stewart to pur- 

 chase the Hempstead Plains, and since that 

 time he has been actively engaged in Mr. 

 Stewart's employ, in making the plans and 

 superintending the erection of the buildings 

 by which that capitalist is rapidly transform- 

 ing this once barren waste into the beau- 

 tiful " Garden City." In private life Mr. Kel- 

 lum was a man of the highest integrity and 

 the most exemplary character. 



KENTUCKY. During the session of the 

 Legislature of this State, begun early in De- 

 cember, 1870, and closed by final adjournment 

 on March 23, 1871, a vast number of special 

 and general laws were passed v but few of them 

 of any great importance. The legal rate of 

 interest on money in Kentucky still remains 

 fixed at six per cent, per annum ; but a new 

 law provides that it shall be lawful for all per- 

 sons to contract, by memorandum in writing, 

 signed by the party or parties chargeable there- 

 on, to pay or receive any rate of interest for 



