OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (JOHNSON KELLY.) 



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the Broadway Tabernacle in 1854. During this pe- 

 riod he was also secretary of the Irish Relief Com- 

 mittee and a founder of the Republican party. In 

 1869 he was appointed United States minister to Aus- 

 tria, and on reaching Vienna he was authorized to 

 negotiate a treaty con- 

 cerning naturalization. 

 A convention with 

 Count Beust, the _Aus- 

 trian Premier,wassigned 

 in 1870, and ratifications 

 of the treaty were ex- 

 changed on July 14, 

 1871. In November fol- 

 lowing Mr. Jay nego- 

 tiated another treaty, 

 giving to each coun- 

 try protection in trade- 

 marks. In 1875 he re- 

 signed his office and un- 

 dertook to retire to pri- 

 vate life; but in 1877 

 he was persuaded by Secretary Sherman, of the Treas- 

 ury Department, to accept the chairmanship of the 

 commission appointed to investigate the management 

 of the New York customhouse, and in 1883 Gov. 

 Cleveland appointed him a Republican member of 

 the State Civil-service Commission, of which he was 

 elected president. Mr. Jay was the first President 

 of the Huguenot Society of New York ; was elected 

 President of the Union League Club in 1866 and 

 1877 ; was active in the organization of the American 

 Geographical Society ; and for many vears was a con- 

 spicuous member and the corresponding secretary of 

 the New York Historical Society. He received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Columbia College in 1891. 

 Among Mr. Jay's numerous publications were " The 

 Dignity of the Abolition Cause as compared with the 

 Political Schemes of the Day" (1839); Caste and Sla- 

 very in the American Church" (1843) ; "The Proxy 

 Bill and Tract Society " (1859) ; " The American 

 Church and the American Slave Trade" (1860); 

 " The Great Conspiracy and England's Neutrality " 

 (1861) ; u America Free or America Slave" and " The 

 Memories of the Past" (1867) ; " The Church and the 

 Rebellion"; "Rome in America"; "The American 

 Foreign Service " ; and " On the Passage of the Con- 

 stitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery." 



Johnson, Barton W., educator, born in Tazewell 

 County, 111., in 1833 ; died in De Leon, Texas, May 

 .24, 1894. He was educated at Bethany College, W. 

 Va. ; became a tutor there ; was President of Eureka 

 College, Illinois, and of Oskaloosa College, Iowa ; and 

 for many years was corresponding secretary of the 

 General Christian Missionary Convention of the Dis- 

 ciples of Christ. Besides editing the " Christian 

 Evangelist " and the " New Christian Quarterly," in 

 St. Louis, he was author of " The Vision of the Ages " ; 

 " Commentary on John " ; " The People's New Tes- 

 tament " ; " The Christian Lesson Commentary " ; and 

 ' Young Folks in Bible Lands." 



Kaime, James Smith, Shaker leader, born in Barn- 

 .stead, N. II., July 17, 1820; died in East Canterbury, 

 N. 11., Jan. 4, 1894. He early accepted the principles 

 of the antislavery and temperance movements ; re- 

 ceived a common-school education ; was apprenticed 

 -to the tinman's trade ; and followed that occupation 

 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts till 1842. Be- 

 coming deeply interested in the religious views and 

 life of the Shakers, he entered the novitiate family 

 of the community at East Canterbury, and in 1847, 

 after having served the family for some time as an 

 associate elder and trustee, became assistant trustee 

 of the Church Family with the well-known David 

 Parker. He served as minister, elder, and trustee till 

 the death of Mr. Parker, and then became the senior 

 trustee of the community. 



Kalnsowski, Henry Kprwin, military officer, born in 

 Poland in 1806 ; died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 23, 

 1894. He was a son of the chamberlain to Stanislaus 

 Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, and of the 



Countess Anna Schulz, of Courland. In the upris- 

 ing of 1830 he was a general of the revolutionary 

 forces in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and for seven 

 days held the Russian army at bay while waiting for 

 promised relief. He then returned to the main Polish 

 army, and on its defeat, in 1831, he went to Prussia, 

 to have his wounds treated. Soon afterward In; re- 

 turned to Poland, joined the army of Prince Czar- 

 towriski, was detailed as Minister of Finance for the 

 insurrectionary Government, and held the office till 

 the downfall of Cracow, when he escaped into Aus- 

 tria. There he made an unsuccessful attempt to raise 

 a revolutionary army. In 1838 he came to the United 

 States and found employment in New York city as a 

 teacher of French and Latin, subsequently teaching 

 in Richmond, Va. In 1848 he took part in the revo- 

 lution in Germany, and, undertaking to settle in the 

 Grand Duchy of Posen, was expelled from the coun- 

 try by the Prussian Government. lie then made his 

 home permanently in the United States. In the civil 

 war he raised the 31st New York Volunteers. After 

 the war he was employed as a translator in the State 

 and Treasury departments at Washington till about 

 1882, when he retired and became a correspondent for 

 Polish newspapers. He was credited with being the 

 master of fourteen languages. In 1891 he founded 

 the Polish Library and Museum in Chicago and gave 

 it 3,000 volumes. 



Kappes, Alfred, painter, born in New York city in 

 1850 ; died in Yonkers, N. Y., June 17, 1894. He was 

 a self-taught genre painter; was a member of the 

 American Water-color Society : received the first 

 Hallgarten prize at the National Academy of Design 

 in 1880 ; and became an academician about a month 

 before his death. He was a frequent exhibitor at the 

 National Academy. His last contribution there was 

 a painting entitled " Voudoo," and his last to the So- 

 ciety of American Artists was a " Rain " study. Other 

 works of note were, in oil, " His Pipe and His Papers " 

 (1879) ; " Village Oracle " (1880) ; " Preparing Din- 

 ner" (1881); "Is this Life Worth Living?" (1882); 

 and " T. B. Clarke, New York : An Interior" (1883) ; 

 and in water color, " Closing Hymn " and " My Aunt 

 Sapphira" (1884). 



Keating, William V., physician, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., April 4, 1823; died there, April 18, 1894. 

 tie was a nepnew of William Hypolitus Keating, the 

 chemist; and was graduated at St. Mary's College, 

 Baltimore, in 1840, and at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1844. In 1861 he was elected Professor of 

 Obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College, and from 

 1862 till 1865 was medical director of the United States 

 Army Hospital at Broad and Cherry Streets, Phila- 

 delphia. He also became medical director of St. 

 Agnes's, St. Mary's, and St. Joseph's hospitals. Dr. 

 Keating was the American editor of Ramsbotham's 

 " Midwifery" and of Churchill's "Diseases of Wom- 

 en," and was a frequent contributor to the medical 

 literature of the day. 



Kelley, Henry B., 'jurist, born in Huntsville, Ala., in 

 1823; died in New Orleans, La., June 16, 1894. He 

 was a son of Judge William Kelley, a former United 

 States Senator; was educated at the University of St. 

 Louis, and admitted to the bar in New Orleans; en- 

 tered the army as 1st lieutenant 14th United States 

 Infantry on April 9, 1847, and resigned and resumed 

 practice at the end of the Mexican War. On March 

 3, 1855, he re-entered the army as 1st lieutenant 10th 

 Infantry, and served principally on the frontier till 

 Feb. 27, 1861, when he resigned to enter the Confed- 

 erate service. He was commissioned colonel 8th 

 Louisiana Volunteers, and served to the close of the 

 war. In 1866 he again returned to the practice of 

 law, and from 1884 till his death he was a judge of 

 the Louisiana Court of Appeals. 



Kelly, Eugene, banker, born in Trill ick, County 

 Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 25, 1806 ; died in New York 

 city, Dec. 19, 1894. He came to the United States in 

 1830, was employed in a dry -goods house in New York 

 city for several years, went into business for himself 

 in Maysville, Ky., and subsequently established a 



