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nel from 1845 to 1861, when he was appointed 

 minister to Rome. He returned to this coun- 

 try to enter the army, and commanded a divis- 

 ion at Fredericksburg, Groveton, Manassas, 

 Yorktown, and Fairfax. He left the army in 

 1863, and was reappointed minister to Rome, 

 where he continued until 1867. He was Adju- 

 tant-General of New York State from 1839 to 

 1843. 



KINGDOM, JOHN M., formerly of London ; 

 died in New York, July 24th. For several years 

 he was connected with the legal profession. 

 He was the author of many plays, includ- 

 ing " Marcoretti," "Which is my Husband?" 

 " Three Musketeers," and " Tailored." He also 

 adapted for the American stage Tennyson's 

 "Queen Mary." 



KIEBY, TIMOTHY; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 January 10th, at the age of 81. He left an 

 estate worth between two and three million 

 dollars. 



KIEWAN, DANIEL JOSEPH ; died in New York, 

 November 25th. He was born at Newton- 

 barry, Ireland, about 1843. He came to this 

 country at an early age, and began his connec- 

 tion with the press during 1863, first on the 

 World, and afterward on the Tribune. In 

 1869 he went to England to report the Harvard 

 and Cambridge boat-race, and on his return to 

 this country published a book entitled "Palace 

 and Hovel." Subsequently he became a re- 

 porter for the New York Herald. 



KITCHEN, WILLIAM K. ; died in New York, 

 September 21st. He was born in Philadelphia 

 in 1815. He came to New York in 1855, and 

 became a member of the firm of Harrall, Ris- 

 ley & Kitchen, wholesale druggists. In 1863 

 he was elected Vice-President and Director of 

 the National Park Bank, and in 1864 was 

 elected president. Mr. Kitchen was a Director 

 of the Queen's (Liverpool) Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany of New York, and also of the Provident 

 Life-Insurance and Savings Company. 



KNOX, General JOHN JAY ; died at Knox- 

 boro, Oneida County, N. Y., January 31st. 

 He was born in 1791. He was a presidential 

 elector for Harrison in 1840, and of Lincoln in 

 1860. He was President of the Bank of Ver- 

 non for thirty years, and for nearly fifty years 

 was a member of the Board of Trustees of 

 Hamilton College. He was the father of the 

 Hon. John Jay Knox, Controller of the Cur- 

 rency of the United States, and of the Rev. 

 Charles E. Knox, Professor of German in the 

 Newark (N. J.) Theological Seminary. 



LAFLIN, LUTHER, the oldest powder-manu- 

 facturer in the United States ; died at Sauger- 

 ties, N. Y., October 19, aged 87 years. 



LAMONT, GEORGE D. ; died in Lockport, N. 

 Y., January 16th, at the age of 53. He was 

 born in the western part of New York, 

 where he practised law several years. In 1859 

 he served part of a term in the State Senate, 

 and from 1862 until 1865 was prosecuting at- 

 torney of the United States Provisional Court 

 of Louisiana. After practising for a while in 



New York, he resumed business in Lockport, 

 and in 1871 was elected Judge of the Supreme 

 Court. 



LEFFERTS, Colonel MARSHALL; died while 

 going with the Veteran Guard of the Seventh 

 Regiment of New York to the Centennial Exhi- 

 bition, July 3d. He was born in Brooklyn in 

 1820, and was a descendant of one of the old 

 Knickerbocker families. During most of his 

 life he was connected with the telegraph-busi- 

 ness. From 1870 till his death he was Presi- 

 dent of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Com- 

 pany. But it was as colonel of the famous 

 Seventh Regiment of New York that he was 

 most widely known. He was elected colonel 

 of that regiment in 1859, and when the first 

 call for troops was made, in 1861, he left for the 

 seat of war with his command, one thousand 

 strong. The regiment, under Colonel Lefferts, 

 also responded to calls in 1862 and 1863. 



LEGGETT, FRANCIS A., the well-known res- 

 taurant and hotel keeper ; died in New York, 

 December 20th. He was born in that city in 

 1819. 



LENOX, SAMUEL, one of the oldest Free- 

 masons in New Jersey ; died in Trenton, Octo- 

 ber 19th, aged 94 years. He was a native 

 of Ireland. 



LEVERICH, CHARLES P. ; died in New York, 

 January 10th. He was born at Newtown, L. 

 I., in 1808. He came to New York at an early 

 age, and was formerly a member of the firm of 

 Leverich & Co., of New York, and was exten- 

 sively engaged in the cotton and sugar trade of 

 the South. In 1840 he was elected director of 

 the Bank of New York, and for twelve years 

 prior to his death was president. He was also 

 a prominent member of the Clearing-House 

 Committee, and a trustee in the Bleecker 

 Street Savings-Bank, and of several insurance 

 companies. 



LOCKWOOD, FREDERICK F., a member of the 

 Produce Exchange in New York; died in that 

 city in February. He was born in Troy, N. 

 Y., in 1827. He came to New York in 1841, 

 and engaged in the transportation business in 

 the Troy Air-Line Company, and in later 

 years was connected with several insurance 

 companies. He had been identified with the 

 Produce Exchange from its organization, and 

 was a prominent Freemason. 



LOTTIMER, WILLIAM, one of the oldest mer- 

 chants of New York ; died in that city, October 

 7th, at the age of 62. He was a native of 

 Glasgow, Scotland. 



LYMAN, SAMUEL P., for twenty-seven years 

 Judge of the Probate Court of Northampton, 

 Mass. ; died January 4th. 



MACDONALD, Rev. J. M., D. D. ; died at 

 Princeton, N. J., April 19th. He was born at 

 Limerick, Me., in 1812, and was the son of the 

 late Major-General John Macdonald. He grad- 

 uated from Union College in 1832, and sub- 

 sequently from the Divinity School in New 

 Haven, and was ordained to the ministry of 

 the Presbyterian Church in 1835. He was 



