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Kenan, Thomas

state senator, congressman, was born in 1771 in Duplin county, N. C. In 1799 he was a member of the house of delegates; served in the state senate in 1804; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1805 to 1811. He subsequently moved to Alabama, where he served for many years in the legislature of that state, but declined a re-election to congress. He died Oct. 22, 1843, near Selma, Ala.

Kendall, Adelbert A

lawyer, jurist, was born March 3, 1851, in Janesville, Wis. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar; in 1893 was appointed judge of the eleventh judicial district of Nebraska; was elected to fill the vacancy in 1894; and re-elected to the same position in 1895. He has acquired a good reputation as an able lawyer of St. Paul, Neb.

Kendall, Amos

author, journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1789, in Dunstable, Mass. In 1829 he was appointed fourth auditor of the treasury of Kentucky; and in 1835 was promoted to the position of postmaster-general. He subsequently took up his residence in Washington City. He was the founder of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Washington. He wrote a History of His Life and Times; and a Life of Andrew Jackson. He died Nov. 11, 1869, in Washington, D. C.

Kendall, Charles West

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born April 22, 1828, in Searsmont, Maine. He was educated at Phillips' academy, Massachusetts, and attended a partial course at Yale college, studied law in Sacramento, Cal., and practiced in Nevada. He was a member of the legislature of California in 1861 and 1862; and was elected to the forty second and forty-third congresses from Nevada. He is a successful orator; and served on several important committees while in congress.

Kendall, Edward Hale

architect, was born July 31, 1842, in Boston, Mass.

He was associated in designing the original Equitable building; and was the architect of the German Savings bank on Fourth avenue; the Washington building on lower Broadway; and the residences of Robert and Ogden Goelet on Fifth avenue, New York city.

Kendall, George Wilkins

journalist, author, was born in 1810 in Vermont. He is a journalist of New Orleans; and the author of The War between the United States and Mexico; and The Texan Santa Fé Expedition.

Kendall, Jonas

legislator, congressman, was born in 1757 in Worcester, Mass. He served thirteen years in the legislature of Massachusetts; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821. He died Oct. 22, 1844, in Leominster, Mass.

Kendall, Joseph G

congressman, was born in 1788. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1829 to 1833. He died Oct. 2, 1847, in Worcester, Mass. a

Kendall, Joseph Wilkins

journalist, was born Aug. 22, 1809, in Mount Vernon, N. H. He attained high rank as a journalist, and was prominent in the public affairs of his native state.

Kendall, Milton T

poet. He is a successful writer of Washington, Pa.

Kendrick, Nathaniel

educator, clergyman, was born April 22, 1777, in Hanover, N. H. He was a successful clergyman; and professor of theology and moral philosophy in the Madison university of Hamilton from 1822 until his death. He died Sept. 11, 1848.

Kenly, John Reese

soldier, author, was born in 1822 in Baltimore, Md. He was a captain and major of volunteers in the Mexican war, and brigadier-general in the federal army in the civil war. He was the author of Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican War.