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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (KNIGHT LAZARUS^ 



there ; and subsequently he was chosen dean of the 

 college, and he held the office till his death. Dr. 

 Kinlock was the first surgeon of the Roper Hospital, 

 attending surgeon of the City Hospital, and surgeon 

 and gynaecologist to the St. Xavier Infirmary. He 

 was a member of many medical associations, was a 

 delegate to the International Medical Congress in 

 1876, was elected Vice-President of the American 

 Medical Association in 1883, and was a visitor to the 

 Berlin Medical Conference in 1890. He is said to 

 have been the first surgeon in the United States to 

 make a resection of the Knee joint for chronic disease, 

 and the first to treat fractures of the lower jaw and, 

 other bones by wiring the fragments. He was also 

 credited with being the first surgeon that ever per- 

 formed Iaparotomy7or gunshot wound of the abdo- 

 men without a protusion of the viscera. Dr. Kinlock 

 wrote surgical treatises and invented instruments that 

 are now in general use. 



Knight, Cyras Frederick, clergyman, born in Boston, 

 Mass., March 28, 1831 ; died in Milwaukee, Wis., 

 June 8, 1891. He was educated at Burlington Col- 

 lege and Harvard University, and was graduated at 

 the General Theological Seminary in New York city 

 in 1854. In the same year he was ordained deacon, 

 and in 1856 took priest's orders. From 1857 to 1867 

 he was rector of St. Mark's Church, Boston, and from 

 1867 to 1877 ministered to St. James's Church, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. In the latter year he removed to Lan- 

 caster, Pa., to become rector of St. James's Church 

 there, which place he filled until he was consecrated 

 Bishop of Milwaukee on March 26, 1889. The short 

 period of his episcopate was one of constant activity 

 on the part of Bishop Knight, his labors continuing 

 up to the time of his last brief illness. His only pub- 

 lished works are occasional sermons and " Charges in 

 the Communion Office" (1886). 



Koppernagel, Clement, clergyman, born in Westpha- 

 lia, Germany, in 183!) ; died in Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 

 27, 1891. He was ordained a priest in the Roman 

 Catholic Church in 1865, and went to Harrisburg and 

 organized the first German Catholic congregation in 

 that section. He designed the present church build- 

 ing, the largest in the city, and built it mainly with 

 his own hands, spending twelve years in the work, 

 and attending to his growing congregation mean- 

 while. He carved or made and set the main altar, 

 pulpit, oratorium,- communion railing, St. Joseph's 

 and the blessed Virgin's side altars, the baptismal 

 font, the confessional box, and the fourteen stations 

 of the cross. The stained-glass windows are the 

 largest in the city, and one of them, designed, cut, 

 ana made by him, contains 228 pieces of glass, and 

 represents the Virgin Mary. The church is an object 

 of great interest in Harrisburg, and its pastor was 

 widely known for his diversified gifts. 



Lamport, William Henry, legislator, born in Pitts- 

 town, N. Y., May 27, 1811 ; died in Canandaigua, 

 N. Y., July 21, 1891. He received a district-school 

 education, and became a farmer. In 1848-'49 he was 

 supervisor of Gorham, N. Y. ; in 1851 was elected 

 sheriff of Ontario County ; in 1854 a member of the 

 State Assembly ; in 1866-'67 trustee and president of 

 the village of Canandaigua ; and in 1870-'72 member 

 of Congress from the 26th New York District, as a 

 Republican. While in Congress he served on the 

 committees on Agriculture and on Expenditures in the 

 War Department. 



Latrobe, John Hazlehurst Boneval, lawyer, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., May 4, 1803 ; died in Baltimore, 

 Md., Sept. 11, 1891. He was a son of Benjamin H. 

 Latrobe, the architect who designed the National 

 Capitol at Washington, the Roman Catholic Cathe- 

 dral at Baltimore, and the Bank of Philadelphia. He 

 received a collegiate education ; took part of the 

 course at the United States Military Academy, re- 

 signing in 1820 on account of the death of his father; 

 and was admitted to the bar in Baltimore in 1825. 

 In 1828 he was engaged by the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad Company to secure the right of way for the 

 road from Point of Rocks to Williamsport, and he re- 



mained with the company as its counsel till his 

 death. He was the sole survivor of the party that 

 accompanied Peter Cooper on the trip with the first 

 locomotive used in the United States, which under- 

 took to run between Ellicott's Mills and Baltimore in 

 competition with the English " Gray Mare " in 1830 

 When Samuel F. B. Morse 

 was making his early experi- 

 ments with his system of 

 magnetic telegraphy Mr. La- 

 trobe was the first man in a 

 place of influence to recog- 

 nize the utility of the scheme, 

 and from 1837 till the open- 

 ing of the first telegraph 

 line, between Baltimore and 

 Washington,on May 24,1844, 

 he gave Prof. Morse substan- 

 tial aid and encouragement. 

 After Ross Winans had se- 

 cured a contract from the 

 Russian Government for the 



construction and equipment of a railroad from St. 

 Petersburg to Moscow for $3,000,000, Mr. Latrobe 

 accompanied Mr. Winans's sons Thomas De Kay 

 and William Lewis to Russia to begin the work, 

 about 1842. In 1858, when the Winanses were un- 

 able to secure from the Russian Government a full 

 settlement for their railroad work, they sent Mr. 

 Latrobe to St. Petersburg as their attorney, and 

 on his collection of the amount due they paid him 

 the large fee, for those days, of $60,000. About 

 1824 Mr. Latrobe became deeply interested in the 

 movement to colonize the colored people of the 

 United States in Africa. Subsequently he was elected 

 President of the Maryland Colonization Society, and 

 on the death of Henry Clay succeeded him as presi- 

 dent of the national society. In connection with this 

 work he became a founder of the Republic of Liberia, 

 and prepared the first map of the region. He also in- 

 duced the Maryland society to establish a Maryland 

 colony at Cape Palmas, for which the State appro- 

 priated $275,000. A form of government for the 

 colony was prepared by him ; and, after an independ- 

 ent, successful existence of more than twenty years, 

 the colony was merged with the Liberian republic 

 Mr. Latrobe was the oldest student of the United 

 States Military Academy, the oldest lawyer in Mary- 

 land, and the oldest railroad official in the country, 

 and had been President of the Board of Visitors to 

 the United States Military Academy, president of the 

 American branch of the Association for the Explora- 

 tion of Africa, and President of the Maryland His- 

 torical Society. With all his activity in legal, rail- 

 road, and public affairs, he found time to gratify a 

 natural taste for invention, and to his genius is due 

 the existence of the popular " Baltimore heater." To 

 the city of Baltimore he gave largely of his time and 

 thought. He was the originator of its admirable park 

 system, and was a founder or director of its leading 

 financial and charitable institutions. He was also an 

 accomplished artist and a voluminous writer. Besides 

 a series of juvenile books (1826), four novelettes, and 

 an address in Washington on " The Capitol and Wash- 

 ington at the Beginning of the Present Century '' 

 (Baltimore, 1881), he published "Biography of Charles 

 Carroll, of Carrollton" (Philadelphia, 1824); "Jus- 

 tices' Practice " (Baltimore, 1825 ; seventh edition, 

 1880) ; " Scott's Infantry and Rifle Tactics," condensed 

 (1828) ; " Picture of Baltimore " (1832) ; " History of 

 Mason and Dixon's Line" (Philadelphia, 1854); 

 " Personal Recollections of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad " (Baltimore, 1858) ; " Hints for Six Months 

 in Europe" (Philadelphia, 1869) ; " Odds and Ends," 

 a volume of poems (printed privately, Baltimore, 

 1876) ; " History of Maryland in Liberia " (Baltimore, 

 1885) ; and " Reminiscences of West Point in 1818 to 

 1822" (1887). 



Lazarns, Jacob H., artist, born in New York city in 

 1825; died there, Jan. 11, 1891. He studied painting 

 in his native city, principally with William Inman 



