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Kinkead, John H

merchant, governor, was born Dec. 10, 1826, in Smithfield, Pa. He was treasurer of Nevada territory for three years; and was a member of the constitutional convention which framed the constitution under which Nevada was admitted as a state.

He was nominated for governor of Nevada in 1878, without solicitation; was elected and served four years-from 1879 to 1883; and in the latter year was appointed governor or of the district of Alaska.

Kinloch, Cleland

planter, state legislator, inventor, was born in 1759, in Charleston, S. C. He served frequently in the state legislature; was a delegate to the conventions of 1787 and 1790; also holding other offices. He was among the most successful rice planters in the state, and one of the first to adopt the tidewater cultivation and the new pounding and threshing machinery, and to encourage inventions and improvements. He died Sept. 23, 1823, in Acton, S. C.

Kinnard, George L

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 26, 1838, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kinne, Aaron

clergyman, author, was born in 1745, in Lisbon, Conn. He was ordained in 1770, and had charge of a congregational church in Groton, Conn.

He published The Sonship of Christ; A Display of Scripture Prophesies; Explanation of the Types, Revelation, etc.; and An Essay on the New Heaven and Earth.

He died July 9, 1824, in Talmadge, Ohio.

Kinnersley, Ebenezer

electrician, educator, inventor, was born Nov. 30, 1711, in England. He was electrician and professor of English and natural philosophy in the college of Philadelphia from 1753 to 1773. In 1757 he invented an electrical thermometer, and that year was the first to prove that heat could be produced by electricity. He died July 4, 1778, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Kinney, Clesson S

lawyer, author, was born Dec. 5, 1859, in East Townsend, Ohio. He has become prominent in the profession of law, and is the author of Kinney on Irrigation.

Kinney, Thomas Talmadge

editor and proprietor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, was born Aug. 13, 1827, in Newark, N. J. He is editor and proprietor of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He was one of the projectors of the Newark Board of Trade and a delegate from that body to a convention in Philadelphia which organized the National Board of Trade.

Kinney, William Burnet

journalist, diplomat, was born Sept. 4, 1799, in Speedwell, N. Y. He was connected with the press of New Jersey, and in 1850 was appointed charge d'affaires to Sardinia, where he remained until 1853. He died Oct. 21, 1880, in Speedwell.

Kinsella, Thomas

journalist, congressman, was born in 1832, in Ireland. He held the local offices in Brooklyn of water commissioner and member of the board of education; and was nominated as postmaster of that city in 1866, and again in 1867, but was rejected by the senate. He was elected to the forty-second congress from New York as a democrat. He died Feb. 11, 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Kinsey, Charles

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1817 to 1819, and from 1820 to 1821.

Kinsey, James

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 22, 1731, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775, when he resigned his seat. In 1789 he was appointed chief justice of New Jersey. he died Jan. 3, 1802, in Burlington, N. Y.

Kinsey, William M

lawyer, congressman, was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Since 1875 he has been actively engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.