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Kirby, Reynold Marvin

soldier, was born March 10, 1790, in Litchfield, Conn. He entered the army in 1813, and received the brevets of first lieutenant and captain for gallantry in the siege of Fort Erie. He became captain of artillery in 1824, and brevet major in the same year. He died Oct. 7, 1842, in Fort Sullivan, Maine. KIRCHHOFF, CHARLES WILLIAM HENRY, mining engineer, journalist, was born March 28, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal. In 1886 he was made assistant editor of the Iron Age, and he became its editor in 1887. He has since 1882 prepared annually for the Mineral Resources of the United States chapters on certain of the heavier metals.