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Kip, Leonard – Kirkland, William

Kip, Leonard

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in New York city.

He was a lawyer of Albany, and the author of California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal's Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty's; Thaloe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; and A Tale of the Incredible.

Kirby, Edmund

soldier, was born in 1840, in Brownville, N. r. He was made first lieutenant on May 14, 1861, and was given the commission of brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from May 23, 1863. He died May 28, 1863, in Washington, D. C.

Kirby, Edward P

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 1833, in Hadley, Ill. For two terms he was the county judge of Morgan county, Ill. He served as a member of the Illinois state legislature.

Kirby, J. Hudson

actor, was born April 3, 1819, in New Jersey. During several years Kirby was engaged as leading performer at the Chatham Street National theater. Here he met with remarkable popularity in the dramas Six Degrees of Crime; The Surgeon of Paris; The Carpenter of Rouen; and others, that ran nightly for several seasons. He died in 1848, in England.

Kirchner, Otto

lawyer, educator, was born July 13, 1846, in Germany. During 1877-81 he was attorney-general of Michigan In 1885 he was appointed professor of law at Ann Arbor, and served one year; and in 1893 was re-appointed to the same position.

Kirk, Edward Norris

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 14, 1802, in New York city. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church in 1842-74, and the author of Sermons; The Parables of Our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; and Christian Sympathy Awakened. He died March 27, 1874, in Boston, Mass.

Kirk, John Foster

author, was born March 22, 1824, in Fredericktown, N. B. He was the secretary to the historian Prescott for eleven years, and since 1885 lecturer on European history at the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of History of Charles the Bold; and Supplement to Allibone's Dictionary.

Kirkbride, Thomas Story

physician, author, was born July 31, 1809, in Morrisville, Pa. He was a physician of Philadelphia, who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane in 1840-83. He was the author of Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; and Construction of Hospitals for the Insane.

He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Kirker, Thomas

governor. He was acting governor of Ohio in 1807.

Kirkland, John Thornton

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1770, in Geneva, N. Y. He was a unitarian clergyman who was president of Harvard university in 1810-27; and the author of Life of Fisher Ames; and Eulogy of General Washington. He died April 24, 1840, in Boston, Mass.

Kirkland, Joseph

mayor, congressman, was born in 1771, in Old Norwich, Conn. He served frequently in the New York state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823. He died Jan. 26, 1844, in Utica, N. Y.

Kirkland, William

educator, journalist, author, was born in 1810, in Utica, N. Y. At the time of his death he was editor of the New York Evening Mirror. Besides many other contributions to periodical literature, he was the author of a series of Letters from Abroad, which were never collected in book form. He died Oct. 19, 1846, in Fishkill, N. Y.