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Knox, James – Koehler, Robert

Knox, James

lawyer, merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1807, in Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses.

Knox, James L

railroad president, was born Sept. 26, 1851, in Coudersport, Pa. In 1892 he became president of the Coudersport and Port Alleghany railroad.

Knox, John

clergyman, author, was born June 17, 1790, near Gettysburg, Pa.

He was licensed by the associate reformed presbytery of Philadelphia in 1815, and became pastor of the collegiate reformed Dutch church in New York city in 1816.

He published occasional sermons and tracts. He died Jan. 8, 1858, in New York city.

Knox, John Jay

financier, author, was born March 19, 1828, in Knoxboro, N. Y. In 1872 he was appointed comptroller of the currency, and resigned in 1884. He was the author of United States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States Government.

He died in 1892.

Knox, Martin Van Buren

educator, college president, was born in 1841, in Schroon Lake, N. Y. He has been professor in the Baker university; and is now president of the Red River Valley university of Wahpeton, N. D.

Knox, Samuel

congressman. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress.

Knox, William S

lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1843, in Killingly, Conn. He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1874-75, serving on the judiciary committee. He was city solicitor of Lawrence in 1875, 1876, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890; and is president of the Arlington National Bank of Lawrence. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Kobbe, Gustav

littérateur, author, was born in 1857 in New York. He is a littérateur of New York city, and the author of Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung; and New York City and its Environs.

Koch, Hermann A

educator, clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 4, 1828, in Germany. In 1856 he filled the chair of German in the Quincy college of Illinois; and from 1860 until his death was professor and president of the Central Wesleyan college of Warrenton, Mo.

Koch, Joseph

jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 28, 1844, in New York city.

In 1890 he was made commissioner of the board of excise of the city of New York.

He was elected to the New York state senate in 1881.

Koch, Richard Henry

educator, lawyer, jurist, was born April 2, 1852, in Middleport, Pa. During 1873-79 he filled the chair of mathematics in the Keystone State Normal school. In 1897 he became judge of the court of common pleas of the twenty-first judicial district of Pennsylvania.

Koehler, Robert

painter, was born Nov. 28, 1850, in Germany. In 1885 he took charge of a private school of art in New York city. His principal works are Holy-Day Occupation; Her Only Support; and The Strike.