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Killen, Henry Franklin

educator, clergyman, was born Feb. 27, 1864, in Union, Miss. He attended the Green Wood Normal institute; Kiachi college, Louisiana, and the Waco university, Texas. He has been principal of the Geneva academy; principal of the Plum Male and Female college; a clergyman in various baptist churches, and is now connected with the high school of Kirbyville, Texas.

Killen, William

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1722, in Ireland. He took an active part in the revolutionary war; during 1776-93 was first chief justice of the supreme court of Delaware; and chancellor of the state from 1793 till 1801. He died Oct. 3, 1805, in Dover, Del.

Killinger, John W

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1825, in Lebanon, Pa. He was attorney for Lebanon county, Pa., until 1849; was elected to the house of representatives of the state in 1850 and 1851; and was elected to the state senate in 1854, serving three years. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtysixth, thirty-seventh, forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was also elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.

Killingsworth, D. H

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 26, 1861, in Fayetteville, W. Va. In 1888 he graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Des Moines, Iowa, from the medical department of the Drake university. He then took a post-graduate course in the New York Medical school, and was president of his class in college. He has attained success in his profession at Tingley, Iowa.

Kilmer, Chauncey

manufacturer, was born March 23, 1816, in Rock City Falls, N. Y. He has supplied the New York Sun with more than $7,000,000 worth of paper. From 1850 to 1857 he held an interest in five different paper mills, which ran continuously day and night, every day of the year except Sunday.

His success has been remarkable. He has taken an active part in the public and business affairs of his city, county and state.

Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson

soldier, diplomat, was born Jan. 14, 1836, near Deckertown, N. J. He was captain of the eighteenth artillery in 1864; was brevetted major-general for the capture of Fayetteville, N. C., in 1865; was majorgeneral of the United States army for cam paign in the Carolinas, and majorgeneral of volunteers in 1865. He was minister to Chili from 1865 to 1870; and was again appointed minister to Chili in 1881. He died Dec. 4, 1881, in Santiago, Chili.

Kilton, James A

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1862, in Providence, R.

I. He served as a member of the Colorado house of representatives in the ninth general assembly, and is the national president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.

Kilty, William

lawyer, jurist. He settled in the city of Washington in 1800, and in the following year was appointed chief justice of the circuit court for the District of Columbia.

Kimball, Alanson M

merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born March 12, 1827, in Buxton, Maine. He moved to the state of Wisconsin, and there became a member of the legislature in 1863 and 1864. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fourth congress.

Kimball, Arthur Lalanne

educator, author, was born in 1856 in New Jersey. He is a professor of physics at Amherst college since 1891, and the author of The Physical Properties of Gases.

Kimball, Edgar Allan

soldier, was born Jan. 3, 1822, in Pembroke, N.

H. In 1847-48 he was a captain and brevet-major in the United States army; served with gallantry in the Mexican war; was the first man to scale the walls of Chapultepec, and received the surrender of the castle. In 1862 he was colonel of a New York regiment of Zouaves. He died April 12, 1863, in Suffolk, Va.