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OBITUARIES. AMERICAN. (JOACHIMSEN KIP.) 



New Orleans before the civil war actually opened. 

 In January, 1861, he was again appointed secretary of 

 the lighthouse board, and for more than a year was 

 on special and secret service for the Naval and Treas- 

 ury Departments. His most distinguished service in 

 the civil war was as fleet captain and chief of staff of 

 Farragut's squadron in the Mississippi ; as com- 

 mander of the naval forces at the capture of Fort 

 Hudson; as commander of the 2d Division of Farra- 

 gut's fleet in Mobile Bay ; and as the naval officer in 

 charge of the city and bay after the surrender. In 

 1865-'69 he was chief of the Bureau of Navigation and 

 Detail ; in 1869 resumed duty as secretary of the light- 

 house board ; and in 1871-'73 commanded the Asiatic 

 squadron. On March 25, 1874, he was appointed by 

 President Grant commissioner to represent the Navy 

 Department at the Centennial Exhibition. Admiral 

 Jenkins was a member of many historical and scien- 

 tific associations. 



Joachimsen, Priscilla J., philanthropist, born in 

 Plymouth, England, in 1825 ; died in New York 

 city, July 24, 1893. She was brought to the United 

 States when an infant, and married Philip J. Joa- 

 chimsen (see the "Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1890, p. 

 651) in 1843. With her husband she was a founder 

 of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, having a 

 model orphan asylum in Eleventh Avenue, between 

 150th and 151st Streets, New York city, and was its 

 president till her death. She was also a founder of 

 the Jewish Lying-in Asylum ; of the Home for Aged 

 and Infirm Hebrews, of which she was president for 

 five years, and of the Deborah Nursery, and was an 

 active worker in many of the largest charitable en- 

 terprises in the city. It is said that many wealthy 

 merchants in New York city to-day owe their pros- 

 perity to her good offices and other aid. 



Johnston, John Taylor, philanthropist, born in New 

 York city, April 8, 1820 ; died there, March 24, 1893. 

 He was a son of John Johnston, a Scotch merchant 

 in New York city, and a founder of the University of 

 the City of New York ; was graduated at that institu- 

 tion in 1839; studied law at Yale and in New York 

 city ; and was admitted to the bar in 1843. After 

 practicing about four vears, he was induced to accept 

 the presidency of the Somerville and Easton Railroad 

 Company, then controlling a short and comparatively 

 insignificant line. Under his management the prop- 

 erty was developed into what is now known as the 

 Central Railroad of New Jersey. He was president 

 of the corporation continuously from 1848 till 1877, 

 when, after sacrificing a large part of his fortune to 

 save the credit of the company, he resigned his office, 

 and the property was placed in the hands of a receiv- 

 er. For many years he had been deeply interested in 

 art, and had been gathering a collection of paintings 

 which became widely known for its extent and merit. 

 One day in each week his gallery in New York was 

 opened to the public, and once a year he gathered 

 in it the artists of the city and vicinity. In the 

 effort to save the railroad company and to reimburse 

 a number of people of small means who had invested 

 in stocks of the company on his advice, he sold the 

 majority of his paintings at auction in 1876, receiving 

 nearly $400,000 for them. After retiring from the 

 presidency he spent the remainder of his life in pro- 

 moting the interests of the various educational and 

 benevolent institutions with which he had long been 

 associated. He was an organizer of the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art, and its president till 1889, and an 

 active member of the governing boards of the Uni- 

 versity of the City of New York, the Presbyterian 

 Hospital, the Woman's Hospital, St. Andrew's Society, 

 and several boards of the Presbyterian Church. He 

 gave liberally to these and other institutions in life, 

 and bequeathed $10,000 each to the museum and the 

 university. 



Jones, Charles Oolcock, historian, born in Savannah, 

 Ga., Oct. 28, 1831 ; died in Augusta, Ga., July 19, 

 1893. He was graduated at the College of New Jer- 

 sey in 1852 : read law ; was graduated at the Harvard 

 Law School in 1855 ; and was admitted to the bar in 



Savannah the same year. During the civil war he 

 served in the artillery branch of the Confederate 

 army, reaching the rank of colonel, and being chief 

 of artillery during the siege of Savannah. After the 

 war he practiced law in New York city till 1877, 

 when he returned to Georgia. He received the de- 

 gree of LL. D. from the University of the City of New 

 York in 1880, and from Oxford University, Georgia, 

 in 1882. Mr. Jones was a prolific writer of history, 

 biography, and archaeology. Among his best-known 

 publications were : " Indian Remains in Southern 

 Georgia" (Savannah, 1859); "Ancient Tumuli on 

 the Savannah River" (New York, 1868)- "Historical 

 Sketch of Toneo-Chi-Chi, Mico of the Yamacraws " 

 (1868); "Antiquities of the Southern Indians, par- 

 ticularly of the Georgia Tribes" (1873); "The Siege 

 of Savannah in 1779" and "The Siege of Savannah 

 in December, 1864" (1874) ; "De Soto's March through 

 Georgia" (1880) ; " History of Georgia" (1883) ; " The 

 English Colonization of Georgia" (1887); and "Negro 

 Myths from the Georgia Coast" (1888). 



Kelton, John Onnningham, military officer, born in 

 Delaware County, Pa., June 24, 1828; died near 

 Washington, D. C., July 15, 1893. He was graduated 

 at the United States Military Academy, and appointed 

 a brevet 2d lieutenant 6th United States Infantry in 

 1851 ; was promoted 2d lieutenant in December of the 

 same year, 1st lieutenant in 1855, captain and assist- 

 ant adjutant-general, Aug. 3, 1861 ; major, July 17, 

 1862; lieutenant-colonel, March 23, 1866; colonel, 

 June 15, 1880; and brigadier-general and adjutant- 

 general, June 7, 1889 ; and was retired June 24,1892. 

 Tie was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and 

 brigadier-general, March. 13, 1865, for " most valuable 

 and arduous services both in the field and at head- 

 quarters." After graduation he was employed in 

 duty on the frontier in Minnesota, at Jefferson Bar- 

 racks, Mo., and in Kansas till 1857 ; was then detailed 

 to the Military Academy as instructor in infantry 

 tactics and the use of small arms, where he remained 

 till 1861 ; and passed the remainder of his military 

 career in the adjutancy on the field and in Washing- 

 ton. On his retirement Secretary of War P^lkins is- 

 sued a general order to the army complimentary to 

 him. From his retirement till his death he was gov- 

 ernor of the National Soldiers' Home near Wash- 

 ington. 



Kenna. John Edward, lawyer, born in Valcoulon, Va. 

 (now West Virginia), April 10, 1848; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1893. He was brought up on 

 a farm, served in the Confederate army, and was 

 wounded in 1864. Subsequently he attended St. Vin- 

 cent's College, in Wheeling, and was admitted to the 

 bar in Charleston, W. Va., June 20, 1870. In 1872- 

 '77 he was prosecuting attorney for Kanawha County ; 

 in 1875 was elected by the bar of Lincoln and Wayne 

 Counties to hold the circuit courts of those counties ; 

 in 1876, 1878, 1880, and 1882 was elected to Congress 

 as a Democrat; and in 1883 and 1889 was elected 

 United States Senator to succeed Henry G. Davis. 



Kip, William Ingraham. clergyman, born in New York 

 city, Oct. 3, 1811 ; died in San Francisco, Cal., April 

 7, '1893. He was gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 

 1831, and at the General 

 Theological Seminary in 

 1835 ; was ordained deacon 

 and priest in the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church the 

 latter year ; was rector of 

 St. Peter's Church, Mor- 

 ristown, N. J., in 1835-'36, 

 assistant minister of Grace 

 Church, New York city, 

 in 1836-'37, and rector of 

 St. Paul's Church, Albany, 

 N. Y., in 1837 -'53; and 

 was consecrated Mission- 

 ary Bishop of California in 1853, and elected first bish- 

 op of that diocese in April, 1857. His jurisdiction ex- 

 tended over the whole State till 1874, when on a divi- 



