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..-. MIL I WHS retired willi lli.- brevet nink !" 



major "H'l tin- pay nl' a colonel, lice. I. 1 !, Is^o. II, 



of Chemistry, MiiiiTiil"y,uinl 



. a! tin- I'liiled States Militurv Academy in 



.c.'cd in iln- M. _'. ',\ \ . i-;i ( rn/, the 



llUttlf.it'* > H" t ..'I'd.', and till- dcfellM- o|' Pllflilli III 



tin- Mi-\i.-aii War' .-.iiiitiiaiuli-l tin .-s,-..rl.- ..I' the 



.i|i|iiral parlies exploring tin- Indian country 



from Xuni rivi-r, New Mexico, in San IHc^o, <'ul., in 



ml tin- country between (In- K.-pul'lir;,< 

 uinl Arkun>as river in 1 *."._'; an. I \\a~- Professor of 

 ch> -mi-tiA . Mineralogy, and Geology at tin- Military 

 Academy in is:.: 80. 



Kenly, John Reese, lawyer, horn in Baltimore. M.I., 

 in 1--J-J; <li.-.l tin-re. !><>. 'J". l^'.'l. II.- received H 

 jirivat. -sell. Mil education, and \\ as admitted to the liar 

 in l s t.''. At tlu- bcL'inniiiir <>f tin- Mcx'u-an VVar he 

 a company <>!' volunteers, ami \MIS eh >-tcd cap- 

 tuin. He took part in the uilvam-f oi' Gcu. Taylor 

 from Bravo del S'orto to Monte ivy an. I in the battles 

 that leil to the 1'all of that city, a'n.l when Col. Will- 

 iam II. Watson fell he rallied his hattalion, and kept 

 it in net ion till the close of the battle. After serving 

 a year he returned to Baltimore, and almost immedi- 

 ately re-entered the service as major and went back 

 to Mexico, when- he remained till the close of the 

 war. He then began practicing law, was an unsuc- 

 ec~-t':il Whiir candidate for the Legislature and Con- 

 gress, and was voted the thanks of the State by the 

 General Assembly for his gallantry in Mexico. On 

 June 11, Isrd, he was commissioned colonel 1st Mary- 

 land Regiment ; in May. lMl-_>, he aided in saving tfie 

 national force under Gen. Bunks at Front Koyul by 

 ehcckiiiir a Confederate advance, but was himself 

 wounded and taken prisoner; and on Aug. 22 follow- 

 ing he was promoted brigadier-genera] for this serv- 

 ice. Later he was in command of all the troops 

 in Baltimore outside the forts, and he further dis- 

 tinguished himself at HagentOWD and at Harper's 

 Kerry. In 1863 he performed one of his most brilliant 

 acts In leading the Maryland Brigade at the recapture 

 of Maryland llei^ht.s. He served in the 1st and 8th 

 Army Corps till the close of the war, and was re- 

 warded with the brevet of major-general on March 13, 

 1865, the thanks of the General Assembly of Mary- 

 land, and a sword by the corporation of Baltimore. 

 Gen. Kcnly refused to apply tor a pension, lost his 

 home in 1890 because unable to pay taxes, and died 

 poor. lie published " Memoirs of a Maryland Vol- 

 unteer in the Mexican War" (Philadelphia, 1873). 



Kidder, Daniel Pariah, clergyman, born in Darien, 

 N. Y., Oft. is, ISl.'i; died in Kvanston. 111., .Inly. _".', 

 1891. He was graduated at Wesleyun Universin. 

 Mi.ldletown, Conn., in 1836, entered the ministry of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, was on missionary 

 duty in Brazil in 1837-'40, and was the first man to 

 deliver a Protestant sermon on the banks of the Am- 

 azon, and held pastorates in Paterson and Trenton, 

 N. J., in lS40-'44. In 1844 he was appointed editor 

 of the Sunday-school publications and tracts of 

 the Methodist Book Concern, and he held the office 

 till 1856, when he became Professor of Practical 

 Theology in Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111. 

 In 1871 he resigned to accept a similar chair in l>iv\\ 

 Tlieoloirieal isemiiiary, Madison, N. J., which he oc- 

 cupied till 1880. He 'was then elected seen -tary of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Board of Kdtication in New 

 York citv, where he remained till 1^7. He had 

 since lived in retirement at Evanston. He published 

 "Mormonism and Mormons" (New York, 1841); 

 "Sketches of Residence in Brazil "(2 vols., 1845); 

 "The Christian Pastorate" < Cincinnati. 1st: 

 Treatise on HomiU-ties" (New York, 1864); and 

 "Helps to Prayer" (1874); a translation from the 

 Portuguese of Feijo's " Nccessits of abolishing a 

 Constrained Clerical Celibacy" (New York. 

 and, with the Rev. J. C Fletcher, " Brazil and the 

 Brn/ilians" (Philadelphia. 1857). 



Kiddle, Henry, educator, horn in Bath. Kmrland, in 

 IS-_M : died iii New York city, Sept. '-'."., 1MM. He 

 came to New York city when nine years old, began 



teachin-.' under the direction of tin Public Sefaool 



Society win n thirteen, and wu th. 



the firxt M-hiNiI .-tai'h-li.-d by tliut iwx-icr 



the pr.-deci-.or of tin- iinwlit B 



when An the society wrtubli-l,. 



school,, he wio. placed in charge t-lii|Mrurily t' 

 their or;jalii/.ation, and bei-un.- 



ent under Samuel Randall. While thu- 



educational work In- studied law with Suniuel .1. Til- 

 den, and was admitted to the bur in IM-v In : 



Ml.-ccede.l Mr. Halldull UM hllperilltelidelit of public 

 sch.tols, and resigned the otllee of priln-il.ul of the 



Saturday Normul School, which he hud In-'d i 

 erul yeai>. In H7'.' he published "Spirituul < 'nt- 

 nuiiiicutions,"' uU>k that .-r.-ut. d comtiderublc 

 nient and rai-M-d the i|Uihtion of Pn.f. KiddleV further 

 iiset'ulness as superintendent, which he solved in !--< 

 by resigniiiir. He then a|>|ilie.l hiniM-lf to tin 

 tigation of spiritualism, und wrote nnd lectured on 

 the subject. He was u.-so.-iuted vith Prof. A. .1. 

 Schcm in the compilation of the " Kncyclopii-dia of 

 Education" (New \ ork. !>>7''ii. for which the 1'niver- 

 sity of France made him an olliccr of the Aeudi my : 

 and he published a "Dictionary of Kducation," u 

 series of " Educational Vear-IxK)ks," and works on 

 astronomy, trrummur, and jihysics. 



Kimball, Charles P., manufacturer, born in Bethel, M.-., 

 in IM.V, ; died in New York city. March 1'.'. \-'.<l. He 

 was brought up on a farm, bought his time from his 

 father when eighteen years old, went to Bri.L'i ton, 

 Me., where he attended school and learned carriage- 

 making, and in 1847 established a carriage factory of 

 his own in Norway, Me. He was prosperous from the 

 start, and built up one of the largest carriage factories 

 in New England. Settling in Portland, he U-eame 

 active in public affairs, and held several municipal 

 offices; was a war Democrat in l^'il-'i'i'i, and was 

 twice defeated for governor, although he polled a 

 larger vote than any other Democratic candidate for 

 that office had ever received in Maine. In Is7' - - la- 

 was appointed a Centennial commissioner from New 

 York ; subsequently he removed to Chicago and estab- 

 lished the largest carriage factory in that city, and in 

 1885-'87 he was United States consul at Stuttgart. 



King, Francis T,, philanthropist, born in Baltimore, 

 Md., Feb. 25, 1818; died there. I);-c. in. iva. He was 

 a member of the Orthodox Society "t Friends, made 

 a large fortune as a member of tin- firm of King, 

 Carey & Howe, and for nearly twenty years had ap- 

 plied himself wholly to charitable work and to larjre 

 administrative duties intrusted to him. lie was Presi- 

 dent of the Board of Trustees of the .!<>l:ns Hopkins 

 Hospital, director of the Johns Ilopkin.- I'nivcrsity, 

 executor of the estate of Thomas Wilson, the philan- 

 thropist. President of the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium, 

 director of the Samuel Ready Orphan Asylum, Pr. -i 

 dent of the Maryland Bible Society, founder of the 

 Central Savings Bank, President of the Board of Di- 

 rectors of Bryn Mawr College, and an official in many 

 financial institutions, lie irave liberally, but it is 

 doubtful if any one knows the extent. 



Kinlock, Robert Alexander, physician, born in Charles- 

 ton, S. C., Feb. 20, ls-J'. : died th. > '-. 1891. 

 He was graduated at the College of Charleston in 

 1846. and at th medical department of the Tniven-itN 

 of Pennsylvania in 1848, .and after s|x-nditii: two 

 years in study in London, Kdinburgh, and Paris, re- 

 turned to Charleston and practiced there till his 

 death. At the beginnini: of the civil wur he entered 

 the Confcd.-r..tc army as surgeon, und he remained in 

 the field till the close of the war. He attended the 

 wounded Confederates in the first Bull Kun buttle. 

 was medical director on the staffs ol (i. n^. l.cc. Pieiuiry- 

 gard, and lYmbcrton, and inspector of hospitals in 

 South Carolina, Gcorifiu, and Florida ; \MIS captured 

 near WiimsUiroujrh. S. C.. while trying t" reach the 

 Confederate army in North Carolina, on Feb. _'i, 1866, 

 ami was rclea-.-d S.N.M afterward as u non-con. 

 In ]M'i7 he was elected Professor of Miitcii.- Medic* 

 and TheraiH-utics in South Carolina Medical^ College, 

 soon afterward he was made Professor of Suiywry 



