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Kirkman, Marshall Monroe

author, was born July 10, 1842, in Illinois.

He was the vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern railway, and the author of Railway Disbursements; Railway Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic; Railway Expenditures; Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and Government Control; and How to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.

Kirkpatrick, Andrew

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 17, 1756, in Mine Brook, N. J. In 1797 he was a member of the New Jersey assembly; was a judge of the supreme court; and during 1803-24 was chief justice. He died Jan. 7, 1831, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Kirkpatrick, Andrew

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 8, 1844, in Washington, D. C. He was president judge of the court of common pleas of Essex county, N. J., for eleven years; and in 1896 was made judge of the United States district court.

Kirkpatrick, Jane Bayard

author, was born July 12, 1772, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of The Light of Other Days, edited by her daughter, Mrs. Jane E. Cogswell. She died Feb. 16, 1851, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Kirkpatrick, John Lycan

clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 20, 1813, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. In 1861 he became president of Davidson college, North Carolina, anu in 1866 he was elected to the chair of moral philosophy in Washington college, Lexington, Va., under the presidency of General Robert E. Lee. He died June 24, 1885, in Lexington, Va.

Kirkpatrick, Littleton

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1797, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1843 to 1845; and was also for five years surrogate of the county of Middle- He died Aug. 15, 1859, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. sex.

Kirkpatrick, Snyder S

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1848, in Franklin county, Ill. He was elected county attorney of Wilson county, Kan., in 1879, and served for a period of two years; was elected to the state senate from the twelfth senatorial district, composed of the counties of Wilson and Neosho, and served in that capacity for a term of four years; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Kirkwood, Daniel

astronomer, author, was born Sept. 27, 1814, in Bradenbaugh, Md. He was an astronomer of distinction, professor in Indiana university since 1850, and the author of Meteoric Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; and Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter.

Kirkwood, James Pugh

civil engineer, was born March 27, 1807, in Scotland. For several years he was United States constructing engineer for the docks, hospital, and workshops at Pensacola, Fla., and afterward was general superintendent of the Erie railroad. He died April 22, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Kirkwood, Robert

clergyman, author, was born May 25, 1793, in Paisley, Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Yonkers, and the author of Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea for the Bible; and Illustration of the Offices of Christ. He died Aug. 26, 1866, in Yonkers, N. Y.

Kirtland, Dorrance

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1819.

Kirtland, Jared Potter

physician, naturalist, egislator, was born Nov. 10, 1793, in Wallingford, Conn. He became an expert in the cultivation of fruits and flowers, and a close student of botany. In 1828 he was elected to the Ohio legislature, and served three terms. During 1841-64 he was professor of medicine in the Cleveland Medical college, of which institution he was one of the founders.

He died Dec. 10, 1877, in Cleveland, Ohio.