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Kletzing, Henry F

educator, librarian, was born Nov. 24, 1850, in Fairview, Pa. He attended Ursinus college, Pennsylvania; then taught school for five years in Iowa; and completed his classical course in the Northwestern college of Naperville, Ill. For the past eighteen years he has been professor of mathematics in the Northwestern college, and also its librarian. He has received the degree of A. M., and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Kline, Mary Rachel

educator, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1843, in Mukwonago, Wis. In her youtn she taught school; and has attained success as a poet of Wisconsin. Her poems have constantly appeared in the periodical press, and received recognition in Poets of America and other standard works. For eleven years she was blind, when the light was again restored, after many painful operations. con-

Klingensmith, John

JR., congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.

Klotz, Robert

soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1819, in Carbon county, Pa. He was a lieutenant of volunteers in the war with Mexico. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1848 and 1849. He was elected treasurer of Carbon county in 1859; was elected a trustee of Lehigh university; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Knapp, Anthony L

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 14, 1828, in Middletown, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected to the senate of Illinois, attending the sessions of 1859 and 1861; and in the latter year was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 he was elected to the thirty-eighth congress.

Knapp, Arthur May

clergyman, author, was born in 1841, in Massachusetts. He is a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Mass., since 1891, and the author of Feudal and Modern Japan.

Knapp, Charles

merchant, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1797, in Colchester, N. Y. He was a member of the New York state legislature in 1841. He settled in the town of Deposit in 1848; organized the Deposit bank in 1854, which in 1864 became a national bank, of which he was president. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.

Knapp, Charles

educator, lecturer, author, was born June 22, 1868, in New York city. Since 1891 he has been an instructor of Latin in Barnard college of New York city, and has lectured extensively on subjects connected with Roman Archæology. He has edited and published several Latin text-books.

Knapp, Chauncey L

journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1809, in Berlin, Vt. Removing to Massachusetts he was elected secretary of the Massachusetts senate in 1851; was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress.

Knapp, Francis

author, poet, was born in 1672, in England. He was a musical composer, and the author of A Poetical Epistle to Mr. B., reprinted in J. Nichols's Select Collection of Poems; and of a poetical Address to Mr. Alexander Pope, on his Windsor Forest. He died after 1715.

Knapp, Isaac

abolitionist, journalist, was born Jan. 11, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1825 he bought the Northern Chronicle; and in 1840 became part owner of the Liberator. He was one of the founders of the New England Anti- Slavery society. He died Sept. 14, 1873, in Boston, Mass.

Knapp, Jacob

clergyman, was born Dec. 7, 1799, in Otsego county, N. Y. In his revival work he visited New York, New England, and the western states, including California, preached about 16,000 sermons, led 200 young men to become clergymen, and baptized 4,000 persons. He died March 2, 1874, in Rockford, Ill.