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Key, Philip Barton – Kidd, Edwin Ethelbert

Key, Philip Barton

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1757 in Cecil county, Md. He represented Annapolis in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1813. He died July 28, 1815, in Georgetown, D. C.

Key, Philip Barton

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 2, 1804, in Woodley, Georgetown, D. C. He went to Louisiana in 1835, and engaged in planting. He was a member of the legislature of Louisiana and of the constitutional convention in 1850. He died May 4, 1854, near Thibodeaux, La.

Key, Thomas Marshall

soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Aug. 8, 1819, in Washington, Ky. For many years he served in the Ohio senate, where he had much influence. He was the author of the first congressional bill for the emancipation of slaves in any part of the United States, and wrote the bill for the emancipation of slaves in the District of Columbia. He died Jan. 15, 1869, in Lebanon, Ohio.

Keyes, Edward Lawrence

physician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1843, in Charleston, S. C. He is a physician of New York city; and the author of The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis; Venereal Diseases; and Genito-Urinary Diseases.

Keyes, Elias

state legislator, congressman, was born in Ashford, Conn. He was a member of the legislature of Vermont from Stockbridge county for a period of eighteen years; and from 1803 to 1818 was a state councilor. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1821 to 1823.

Keyes, Erasmus Darwin

soldier, author, was born May 29, 1810, in Brimfield, Mass. He was a major-general in the federal army in the civil war; and the author of Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events. He died in 1895.

Keys, William Reed

educator, journalist, was born June 12, 1859, in Jonesboro, Tenn. He has attained success as an educator and journalist, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Keyser, Ephraim

sculptor, was born Oct. 6, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He studied sculpture at the Royal academies in Munich, Berlin and Rome. He executed the De Kalb statue at Annapolis, Md.; and the Chester A. Arthur memorial at Albany, N. Y.

Keyser, Leander S

clergyman, author, poet, was born March 13, 1857, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He is a successful clergyman of Springfield, Ohio; and the author of The Only Way Out; Epochs of a Life; and a volume of poems.

Keyser, Peter Dirck

surgeon, author, was born Feb. 8, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a surgeon of Philadelphia who has published Operations for Cataracts, and other works on diseases of the eye. He died in 1897.

Kibbee, Charles Carroll

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in Macon, Ga. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1870 was elected a state senator from Georgia; and in 1874 was elected judge of the superior court.

Kidd, Edwin Ethelbert

soldier, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1836, in Alabama. He served as a captain in the confederate army until the close of the war. He has been a member of the Louisiana legislature for several terms.

He is the author of a number of poems, some of which have been set to music.