Kemp, James
bishop, author, was born in 1764, in Scotland. Having been elected by the convention of Maryland, he was consecrated, in 1814, suffragan bishop; and in 1816 he succeeded to the bishopric.
He published, in addition to several occasional discourses, A Tract on Conversion; Letters in Vindication of Episcopacy; A Sermon on Deathbed Repentance; and A Sermon on the Death of Bishop Claggett. He died Oct. 28, 1827, in Baltimore, Md.
KEMPER, GENERAL WILLIAM HAR- RISON, physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 16, 1839, in Rush county, Ind. In 1865 he graduated from the Long Island college with the degree of M. D. He has attained success in his profession at Muncie, Ind.; has been coroner of Delaware county; examining surgeon for pensions; and in 1886. was elected president of the Indiana State Medical society. He served through the war, first as a private in the seventh regiment, and became assistant surgeon of the seventeenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He has contributed more than fifty articles to medical societies and journals; and is a member of the leading medical bodies of America.