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Kean, John

congressman, was born about 1756 in South Carolina. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1785 to 1787. He died in May, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Kean, John

JR., manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 4, 1852, in Ursino, N. J. He settled in Elizabeth, N. J.; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-eighth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Keane, John Joseph

Roman catholic bishop, was born Sept. 12, 1839, in.

Ireland. He was assistant pastor of St.

Patrick's church, Washington, D. C., till 1878, when he was made bishop of Richmond, Va.

Kearney, Dyre

congressman. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1786 to 1788.

Kearney, Lawrence

naval officer,. was born Nov. 30, 1789, in Perth Amboy, N. J.

He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1807; and in 1866 was made commodore. He died Nov. 29, 1868, in Perth. Amboy, N. J. a was brigadier-

Kearney, Stephen Watts

soldier, was born Aug. 30, 1794, in Newark, N. J. He was a gallant soldier in the war of 1812. He was brevetted a brigadier in 1846, and major-general in December the same year, for gallant conduct in the Mexican war. He died in October, 1848, in Vera Cruz.

Kearsley, John

physician, was born about 1684 in England. He served for many years in the assembly of Pennsylvania; and was a celebrated physician of Philadelphia. He died in January, 1772, in Philadelphia.

Keasbey, Lindley Miller

educator, author, was born in 1867 in New Jersey. He was a professor of history and economics at the university of Colorado in 1892-94; and at Bryn Mawr college, Bryn Mawr, Pa., from 1894. He is the author of The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine.

Keating, John M

physician, author,. was born April 30, 1852, in Philadelphia..

He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of With General Grant in the East; Mothers' Guide for Management of Infants; Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; and Diseases of the Heart.

Keating, William Hypolitus

educator, chemist, author, was born Aug. 11,. 1799, in Wilmington, Del. His efforts for an institution of higher aims in scientific instruction ultimately led to the founding of the Franklin institute in 1824, in which he was professor of chemistry.

He was the author of a Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, etc., in 1823. He died about 1844 in.

London, England.

Keayne, Robert

philanthropist,. state legislator, was born in 1595 in England. He was frequently a representative to the Massachusetts state legislature between 1638 and 1649, a liberal donor to Harvard, and left a legacy for the establishment of a free school in Boston, which is now the Latin grammar school. He died March 23, 1656, in Boston, Mass.

Kedney, John Steinfort

educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 12, 1819, in Essex county, N. J. He is an episcopal clergyman, professor in Seabury Divinity school at Faribault, Minn., since 1871; and the author of Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology; Catawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of the Emotions; Hegel's Æsthetics; and Christian Doctrine Harmonized.