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Kimberly, Lewis Ashfield, naval officer, born 

 in Troy, N. Y., April 2, 1830; died in West New- 

 ton, Mass., Jan. 28, 1902. He was graduated at 

 the United States Naval Academy and made 

 passed midshipman June 8, 1852; master and 

 lieutenant in 1855; lieutenant-commander in 

 1862; commander in 18G6; captain in 1874; com- 

 modore in 1884; and rear-admiral in 1887; and 

 was retired April 2, 1892. When the civil war 

 broke out he served on the frigate Potomac of 

 the Western Gulf blockading squadron till 1862, 

 when he was transferred to the Hartford, on 

 which he served till the close of the war, taking 

 part in the engagement and passage of the Port 

 Hudson batteries, the engagement with the bat- 

 teries at Grand Gulf and Warrington, on the Mis- 

 sissippi, and the battle of Mobile Bay. Capt. 

 Percival Drayton, in his official report of the bat- 

 tle of Mobile Bay, said: "To Lieut.-Commander 

 Kimberly^ the executive officer, I am indebted 

 not only for the fine example of coolness and self- 

 possession which he set to those around him, 

 but also for the excellent condition to which he 

 had brought everything belonging to the fighting 

 department of the ship, in consequence of which 

 there was no confusion anywhere, even when, 

 from the terrible slaughter at some of the guns, 

 it might have been looked for." After the war 

 he was attached to the steam frigate Colorado, 

 flagship of the European squadron, and on be- 

 coming a commander was transferred to the re- 

 ceiving-ship New York. He commanded the 

 Benecia on the Asiatic coast in 1870-72, and 

 later the Canonicus of the North Atlantic squad- 



;on, the Monongahela, and the Omaha; was on 

 uty at the New York Navy- Yard in 1880-'83; a 

 member of the Examining and Retiring Boards 

 in Washington in 1884 '85; commandant of Bos- 

 ton Navy- Yard in 1886; and of the Pacific station 

 in 1887. In 1889, while he commanded the fleet 

 in the Pacific, during the trying period of nego- 

 tiations with Germany over the Samoan diffi- 

 culty, his ships were wrecked in the hurricane at 

 Apia, the Trenton and Vandalia being completely 

 destroyed and the Nipsic cast ashore. From 1890 

 till his retirement he served as president of the 

 Naval Board of Inspection and Survey. 



Kling, Isaac, inventor, born in Hirschberg, 

 Germany, March 16, 1835; died in Louisville, 

 Ky., June 12, 1902. He came to the United 

 States in 1854. His chief inventions were an 

 automatic car-coupler for use on both freight and 

 passenger cars and a steam-engine occupying a 

 spaqe of 3 square feet which developed 100 horse- 

 power. He received the patent on this engine 

 three days before his death. 



Knowles, Edwin (Philander Milton Knowles), 

 actor, born in Hamlet, R. I., June 27, 1845; died 

 in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1902. He was of 

 Quaker parentage, and was apprenticed in boy- 

 hood to a blacksmith, but early showed a taste 

 for reading and declamation, and while still a lad 

 he appeared in the town hall in his native village 

 in a scene from Hamlet. In 1867 he became a 

 lupernumerary at the old New York Theater, 

 anaged by the Worrell Sisters. After a brief 

 perience in this capacity, he joined a traveling 

 ompany, and before long he had had sufficient 

 ramatic practise to be able to play minor rOles. 

 T e acted in the stock companies of Troy and 

 ew Orleans, the John E. Owens Company, and 

 he stock organizations of Cincinnati, Cleveland, 

 d other cities. During these engagements he 

 dvanced from playing unimportant characters 

 ~ the place of leading man. He obtained a play 

 titled The Black Flag, which displayed his tal- 

 ts to the best advantage, and he traveled with 



it as a star for many seasons with much success. 

 In 1882 Mr. Knowles, in partnership with Col. 

 Theodore Morris, leased the Grand Opera-House, 

 Brooklyn, and he managed it until 1888, when 

 he disposed of his interest and became one of the 

 lessees of Amphion Academy, Brooklyn. From 

 1892 to 1896 he was interested also in Brooklyn 

 Columbia Theater. In 1894 he became A. M. 

 Palmer's partner in the management of Brooklyn 

 Park Theater, and he also took a lease of Fifth 

 Avenue Theater, New York, managing it success- 

 fully for three years, and in 1900. disposing of his 

 interest in it to F. F. Proctor. Mr. Knowles was 

 very successful in organizing and managing 

 traveling companies, and he owned an interest in 

 some of the best plays on the road, among which 

 were The Great Diamond Robbery and four Quo 

 Vadis companies. In theatrical club life he was 

 a prominent figure", serving several times as vice- 

 president and secretary of the Actors' Fund, and 

 acting as president of the Actors' Order of Friend- 

 ship, vice-president of the Hanover Club, and 

 president of the Aurora Grata Club, Brooklyn, 

 and as treasurer of the Theatrical Managers' As- 

 sociation of the United States. He married, in 

 1876, Sarah E. Goodrich, of Chicago. Mr, 

 Knowles was associated with nearly all the dis- 

 tinguished actors of his time, and was a leading 

 spirit in everything that could improve the con- 

 dition of the stage and theatrical life in general. 



Lataiie, James Allen, clergyman, born in. 

 Essex County, Virginia, Jan. 15, 1831; died in 

 Baltimore, Md., Feb. 21, 1902. He was graduated 

 at the Law Department of the University of Vir- 

 ginia in 1852, and at the Episcopal Theological 

 Seminary in 1854. He organized Trinity Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church in Staunton, Va., in 1857, 

 and was its rector fourteen years. He was then 

 called to St. Matthew's Church, W T heeling, 

 W. Va., where he remained till 1874, when he 

 formally withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church and announced his adhesion to the Re- 

 formed Episcopal tenets. Returning to his early 

 home, he founded a church in Essex County and 

 one in King William County. He declined the 

 bishopric of the Reformed Episcopal Church in 

 Chicago in 1876, but accepted on being again 

 chosen in 1879, and was assigned to the Southern 

 jurisdiction. In 1883 he was elected presiding 

 bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the 

 United States, and in 1901 was made Bishop of 

 the Synod of New York and Philadelphia. 



Leeds, Albert Ripley, chemist, born in Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., June 27, 1843; died there, March 

 13, 1902. He was graduated at Harvard Univer- 

 sity in 1865, and before graduation he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Chemistry in the Philadel- 

 phia High School, and in the following year to 

 the same chair in the Franklin Institute, the 

 Philadelphia Dental College, and Haverford Col- 

 lege. The three latter professorships necessitated 

 incessant lecturing and teaching, and in the at- 

 tempt to discharge these duties his health broke 

 down. Resigning them, he spent two years in 

 travel in Europe. On his return he organized 

 the Department of Chemistry at Stevens Insti- 

 tute of Technology. During the first five years 

 Prof. Leeds contributed papers on new mineral 

 species and on lithology, which he published in 

 the American Journal of Science. Subsequently 

 the teaching of analytical chemistry occupied 

 most of his time, and 30 papers on this topic- 

 were published in the Fresenius Zeitschrift and 

 the Chemical News. On election as presiding 

 officer of the American Chemical Society and 

 Secretary of the New York Academy of Sciem i-<. 

 he turned his attention to technical and general 



