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Kinsley, Martin

soldier, jurist, congressman, was born June 2, 1754, in Bridgewater, Mass. He served in the legislature of Massachusetts about thirty years; was also at different periods a member of the state council, a judge of the court of common pleas, and judge of probate; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821. He died June 20, 1835.

KINSOLVING, GEORGE HERBERT, bishop of Texas, was born April 28, 1849, in Bedford county, Va. In 1887 he was elected missionary bishop of western Texas.

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