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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (KENNEDY KIRKWOOD.) 



branch house of his former employers in St. Louis, and 

 married the daughter of one of them. At the begin- 

 ning of the gold excitement he went to San Francisco, 

 where for ten years lie was engaged in the dry -goods 

 business. In 1861, with Joseph A. Donohoe and Wil- 

 liam Ralston, he founded the banking houses of Dono- 

 hoe, Ealston & Co.. in San Franciso, and Eugene Kelly 

 & Co., in New York city. The San Francisco house 

 became the Donohoe-Kelly Banking Co. ; the New 

 York house was dissolved* in May, 1894, and after 

 the latter date Mr. Kelly applied himself to his large 

 private interests. His first wife, Miss Donnelly, died 

 in 1848, and he married Margaret Hughes, a niece of 

 Archbishop Hughes, in 1857. Mr. Kelly was a 

 founder of the Southern Bank of the State of Georgia, 

 a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Education of New York for 

 thirteen years, and was active in various char- 

 itable organizations and on public committees. He 

 was also a founder and director of the Catholic Uni- 

 versity of America. He left a fortune estimated at 

 over |20,000,000, and bequeathed $100,000 for dis- 

 tribution among Roman Catholic asylums and other 

 charitable institutions in New York city, and $10,000 

 to Hebrew charitable institutions. He gave liberally 

 in life, and made no sectarian discrimination. 



Kennedy, William Henry, song writer, born in Man- 

 chester, England, in 1855; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Jan. 3, 1894. While a boy he followed the sea, and 

 became an expert ventriloquist. In 1871 he settled in 

 Montreal, Canada, and soon afterward began travel- 

 ing with a prestidigitateur, he giving exhibitions of 

 ventriloquism. He made his first appearance in New 

 York city in 1874, and within two years of his death 

 was successively connected with Haverly 1 s Minstrels, 

 Tony Pastor's company, and the San Francisco Min- 

 strels, and for a time managed an amusement place on 

 Eighth Street, New York city. He was widely known 

 as a song writer, had composed more than 200 songs, 

 and had written a play and an opera which he intended 

 to produce during the winter of his death. Among the 

 most popular of his songs were " Cradle's Empty, 

 Baby's gone " : "A Flower from Mother's Grave " ; 

 u Little Empty Stockings by the Fire " ; "I had Fif- 

 teen Dollars in my Inside Pocket"; "Hush! don't 

 wake the Baby " ; "'Say A u Revoir, but not Good-by " ; 

 " I owe Ten Dollars to O'Grady " ; " Grandmother's 

 Birthday "; and " An Old-fashioned Photograph." 



Keppler, Joseph, caricaturist, born in Vienna, Austria, 

 Feb. 1, 1838; died in New York city, Feb. 19, 1894. 

 In early youth he displayed an aptitude _for drawing 

 and designing and a desire for a theatrical life, and 

 his first efforts in these lines were in ornamenting the 

 fancy cakes made in his father's bakery, and in taking 

 small parts in theatrical and operatic performances, 

 Subsequently he studied art in Italy for a short time, 

 and made several appearances in Vienna as an opera 

 singer. In 1868 he came to the United States and 

 undertook to study medicine in St. Louis, but find- 

 ing this uncongenial he returned to the stage, became 

 a manager and a bankrupt, and engaged in drawing 

 humorous pictures. While in St. Louis he established 

 an illustrated periodical, called first " The Star 

 Chamber" and afterward "Puck," in the German 

 language ; but the venture was unsuccessful. In 1872 

 lie removed to New York city, found employment as a 

 caricaturist with Frank Leslie, and remained there 

 till 1877, when, with Adolph Schwarzmann, then 

 employed in the Leslie composing room, he revived 

 " Puck " as a German periodical. Its success was 

 such that within a few months he brought out an 

 English edition also. A number of "social and 

 political hits gave "Puck" a wide reputation, and 

 made its chief artist famous. Mr. Keppler was a 

 member for many years of the Liederkranz Society, 

 and the designer of most of the historical processions 

 at its annual balls. He was the first artist to intro- 

 duce cartoons in colors, and a distinguishing feature 

 of his whole art work was the adaptation of classical 

 and mythological subjects to modern conditions of 

 social and political life. 



Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, military officer, born in 

 Camden, S. C., Jan. 5, 1822; died there, April 13, 

 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was a 

 member of the State Senate in 1852-'57, and of the 

 Secession Convention in 1860. At the beginning of the 

 civil war he raised the 2d South Carolina Regiment, 

 and commanded it in the first battle of Bull Run. 

 In 1862 he was promoted brigadier general, and 

 throughout the Peninsula campaign commanded a 

 brigade in McLaws's division. At Gettysburg he 

 led the attack by Longstreet's . corps, losing more 

 than half of his brigade. He was then ordered to 

 the West, where he took part in the battle of Chick- 

 amauga and in the siege of Knoxville. In 1864 he 

 was promoted major general, returned to Virginia, 

 and in Lee's final campaign commanded a division, 

 with which he checked the advance of the National 

 army at Spottsylvania till Lee's arrival, co-operated 

 with Gen. Early at Cold Harbor, and surrendered at 

 Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865. He was imprisoned for 

 several months at Fort Warren, and afterward re- 

 sumed his law practice in Camden. In 1865-'66 he was 

 President of the State Senate; in 1877-'93 was judge 

 of the Circuit Court of the State ; and at the time of 

 his death was postmaster of Camden. 



Kirkland, Joseph, author, born in Geneva, N. Y., 

 Jan. 7, 1830 ; died in Chicago, 111., April 29, 1894. He 

 was the son of Prof. William Kirkland, of Hamilton 

 College, and Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, an author 

 of note. He removed to Chicago in 1856, and at the 

 opening of the civil war enlisted as a private in the 

 12th Illinois Infantry and rose to the rank of major. 

 After the war he returned to Chicago, studied law, 

 and was admitted to the bar and practiced his profes- 

 sion with success for several years. After 1890 his at- 

 tention was mainly given to literary pursuits. lie was 

 the author of " Zury : The Meanest Man in Spring 

 County" (Boston, 1887); "The McVeys" (Boston, 

 1888) ; " The Captain of Company K " ; " The Story ot 

 Chicago " ; " History of the Chicago Massacre of 1812." 

 He belonged to a number of literary societies in Chi- 

 cago and New York, and was the first President of the 

 Twentieth Century Club. " Zury " and " The Mc- 

 Veys " are studies of pioneer life in Illinois, and, 

 though wanting in literary finish, are both truthful 

 and sympathetic. 



Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan, lawyer, born in Harford 

 County, Md., Dec. 20, 1813 ; died in Iowa City, Iowa, 

 Sept. 1, 1894. He received u limited academic edu- 

 cation in Washington, D. C. ; was employed as a 

 drug clerk in 1827-'34 ; re- 

 moved to Richland Coun- 

 ty, Ohio, in 1835 ; and was 

 admitted to the bar in 

 1843. After practicing at 

 Mansfield, Ohio, for two 

 years, he was elected pros- 

 ecuting attorney for the 

 county, and at the end of 

 the term was re-elected. 

 In 1850-'51 he was a 

 member of the State con- 

 vention that framed the 

 present Constitution of 

 Ohio. He removed to 

 Johnson County, Iowa, in 

 1855 ; was elected to the 

 State Senate in 1856; and was chosen Governor of 

 Iowa in 1859 and 1861. His first administration was 

 so satisfactory that he was renominated without op- 

 position. At the beginning of the civil war he re- 

 sponded promptly to the President's call for volun- 

 teers, and soon'had Iowa's quota of troops in the field. 

 Among the many acts for which he was afterward 

 held iii high esteem was the prudent management by 

 which he saved the State $500,000 out of the 800,000 

 appropriated for defense bonds. While he was in 

 his second term President Lincoln appointed him 

 minister to Denmark, but he declined the office from 

 a sense of duty to his State, and the appointment was 

 kept open to the close of his second term, when he 



