OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (JUNEAU KEMPER.) 



in winter, surveyed in summer, and when twenty- 

 one years old was admitted to the bar. In 1845 

 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in 

 1849 to Congress. There he almost immediately 

 made himself a conspicuous foe of slavery and 

 a champion of the homestead system. His promi- 

 nence in 1852 led to his selection as vice-presiden- 

 tial candidate on the Free-soil ticket. In 1850 he 

 was a delegate, vice-president, and chairman of 

 the Committee on Organization in the first na- 

 tional convention of the Republican party. He 

 was re-elected to Congress in 1800, and served 

 there ten years, having a place on the Commit- 

 tees on the Conduct of the War, on Reconstruc- 

 tion, and on the Preparation of Articles of Im- 

 peachment against President Johnson. Mr. 

 Julian was an advocate of woman suffrage, and 

 in 18118 he proposed in Congress a constitutional 

 amendment conferring the right to vote on 

 women. In 1872 he united with the Liberal Re- 

 publican party, and supported Horace Greeley 

 for the presidency. He was Surveyor General of 

 New Mexico in 1885-'89, and he afterward lived 

 in retirement. He published Speeches on Political 

 Questions (Boston, 1872); Political Recollections 

 (Chicago. 1884) : and The Life of Joshua R. Gid- 

 dings (181)2). 



Juneau. Joseph, miner, born in Assumption, 

 Quebec, Canada, about 1824; died in Dawson, 

 Alaska, May 13, 1899. He was a second cousin 

 of Solomon Juneau, founder of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 and was one of a family of 21 children, 15 of 

 whom were boys. He spent the first seventeen 

 years of his life in his native place, then sud- 

 denly disappeared, and. was neither seen nor heard 

 of for twenty years. Leaving home, he had 

 worked his way to the Western coast, journeyed 

 to Portland, Ore., and in company with one com- 

 panion had paddled in an open canoe from Port- 

 land to Sitka, Alaska. Prior to 1880 he had pene- 

 trated the Northern wilderness, discovered a rich 

 lead of gold, and founded the little settlement 

 that received its name from him and later be- 

 came one of the important towns in the Territory. 

 In Alaska he made and lost several fortunes. 

 He had relatives in Milwaukee whom he was 

 always promising to visit, but he rarely got be- 

 yond San Francisco, whither he was in the habit 

 of going frequently for a few weeks' chat with his 

 old mining friends. 



Kaiulani, Princess Victoria, former heir ap- 

 parent to the throne of Hawaii, born in Hono- 

 lulu, Oct. 16, 1875; died there, March 6, 1899. 

 Her father was Archibald S. Cleghorn, a native 

 of Scotland, long a resident of Hawaii, and ex- 

 governor of the island of Oahu, and her mother, 

 his wife, the Princess Miriam Likelike, sister 

 of the late King Kalakaua and of the deposed 

 Queen Liliuokalani. The princess was carefully 

 educated in England, and while studying there, 

 March 9, 1891, she was proclaimed heir apparent 

 to the throne by Queen Liliuokalani. Early in 

 1893 she visited the United States, and protested 

 against the proposed treaty of annexation. She 

 afterward returned to England, but revisited the 

 United States in October, 1897, on her way to 

 Waikiki, a suburb of Honolulu, where her father 

 had built a beautiful place for her. After annexa- 

 tion was accomplished she dropped her royal 

 itle and called herself Miss Victoria Cleghorn. 

 1 he princess was a typical Hawaiian beauty, and 

 a favorite of all classes on the islands. 



Kapiolani, dowager Queen of Hawaii, born 



Dec. 31, 1834; died in Honolulu, June 24, 1899. 



She was descended from a long line of principal 



hiefs on the island of Kauai, and was the grand- 



ighter of the last king of the island, the only 



monarch in Hawaii who was not forced to sur- 

 render to Kamehameha I, who united the islands 

 under a single government. In 1863 she married 

 High Chief David Kalakaua, who was chosen 

 king in 1874. Her influence was all for good, 

 and her greatest desire was the uplifting of her 

 race. She had no children, and devoted most 

 of her time to charitable work, and founded the 

 Kapiolani Home for Leper Girls. She had visited 

 England, and in 1887 made a tour of the United 

 States. 



Keener, John Ormon, educator, born in New 

 Orleans, La., Aug. 17, 1854; died in .Greensboro, 

 Ala., Dec. 31, 1898. He was a son of Bishop John 

 C. Keener, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 South. He was graduated at the Southern -Uni- 

 versity, Greensboro, Ala., in 1874, united with the 

 Alabama Conference of his Church the same year, 

 <and was employed in itinerant work till June, 

 1894, when he was elected president of his alma 

 mater, which had given him the degree of D. D. 

 the previous year. President Keener represented 

 his conference in the General Conferences of 1894 

 and 1898, and was a member of the last CEcu- 

 menical Conference of Methodism. 



Kellogg, Samuel Henry, theologian, born in 

 Quogue, Long Island, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1839;. died 

 in Landour, India, May 2, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at Princeton in 1861 and at its theological 

 seminary in 1864, and was ordained an evangel- 

 ist and went to India under appointment by the 

 Presbyterian Board. In 1865-'71 he w r as stationed 

 at Futteghur, and in 1872-76 in Allahabad, in 

 the latter place acting also as instructor in the- 

 ology in the synodical school. He returned to 

 the United States early in 1877, and that year 

 became pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church 

 in Pittsburg, Pa., and Professor of Systematic 

 Theology in the Western Theological Seminary, 

 at Alleghany. In 1886 he was called to the St. 

 James's Square Presbyterian Church, in Toronto, 

 Canada, where he remained till 1892. As a mis- 

 sionary he returned to India late in 1892, and 

 there applied himself to Bible translation and 

 other literary work in the Indian vernaculars. 

 He was killed by being thrown over a precipice 

 while on a cycling tour in the Himalaya moun- 

 tains. Besides his translation of the Larger Cate- 

 chism of the Presbyterian Church into Hindi, his 

 publications include A Grammar of the Hindi 

 Language (Allahabad, 1876; enlarged edition, 

 London, 1892) ; The Jews; or, Prediction and Ful- 

 fillment (New York, 1883) ; The Light of Asia 

 and the Light of the World (1885) ; From Death 

 to Resurrection (1885); Are Premillennialists 

 Right? (Chicago, 1885); An Exposition of the 

 Book of Leviticus (forming Vol. Ill of the Ex- 

 positor's Bible, London, 1891); and The Genesis 

 arid Growth of Religion (1892). 



Kemper, Delaware, soldier, born in Warren- 

 ton, Va., Aug. 25, 1833; died in Alexandria, Va., 

 June 30, 1899. He was educated at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia. He entered the Confederate 

 army in May, 1861, as captain of the Alexandria 

 artillery, took part in the battles at- Mitchell's 

 Ford and Bull Run, and was wounded at the sec- 

 ond battle of Manassas in August, 1862. On his 

 recovery he was placed in command of the re- 

 serve artillery in Charleston and recommended 

 for promotion to brigadier general. After the 

 war he was elected Professor of Mathematics in 

 Hampden-Sidney College, and he remained in that 

 office seventeen years. He then became Professor 

 of Natural Sciences in the Citadel Academy, 

 Charleston, and later was appointed president of 

 Adger College, South Carolina. In 1893 he was 

 appointed consul at Amoy, China. Upon the ex- 



