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Koehler, Sylvester Rosa – Kornitzer, Joseph

Koehler, Sylvester Rosa

art critic, author, was born Feb. 11, 1837, in Germany. He is an art critic of Boston, editor of the American Art Review, and the author of American Art; and Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and History.

Koenig, George Augustus

chemist, was born about 1845, in Germany. In 1874 he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the university of Pennsylvania, becoming acting professor of geology and mining in 1879, and professor of mineralogy and metallurgy in 1886. His scientific work includes the invention of chronometry.

Kohlmann, Anthony

clergyman, was born July 13, 1771, in France. He was appointed pastor in New York in 1808, and founded an academy for boys called the New York literary institution, and another for girls under the charge of the Ursuline nuns. He died in April, 1838, in Rome, Italy.

Kohlsaat, Herman Henry

merchant, publisher, was born March 22, 1853, in Edwards county, Ill. His attention having been drawn to the profits of the luncheon and restaurant business, Mr.

Kohlsaat took an interest in an established concern in 1880, and in July, 1883, bought the business, which he developed into the largest of its class, certainly ın Chicago, and possibly in the United States. In 1895 he entered the field of journalism as purchaser of The Herald and The Times of Chicago.

Kollen, Gerrit J

educator, college president, was born Aug. 9, 1843, in Netherlands. He is president of the Hope college of Holland, Mich. He has filled chairs of applied mathematics in several institutions of learning.

Kollock, Mary

artist, was born in 1840, in Norfolk, Va. She is a member of the Art Students' league, and of the Ladies' Art association, New York, in which she is an instructor in painting. Her contributions to the exhibitions of the National academy of design include Morning in the Mountains; Gleam of Sun-- shine (1882); On Rondout Creek; The Old Fiddler; Under the Beeches; and A.

Glimpse of the Catskills.

Kollock, Shepard

soldier, journalist, was born in 1750, in Lewiston, Del. He was commissioned lieutenant early in the revolution, and took part in the battle of Trenton and other engagements. In 1779 he resigned and began a newspaper entitled the New Jersey Journal in Chatham. He died July 28, 1839, in Philaderphia, Pa.

Koontz, William H

lawyer, congressman, was born July 15, 1830, in Somerset, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth congress.

KOOPMAN (koope'man), HARRY LY- MAN, author, poet, was born July 1, 1860, in Freeport, Maine. He is a verse writer,. librarian of Brown university, and the author of The Great Admiral; Orestes, and Other Poems; Woman's Will, witn Other Poems; and What to Read.

Korn, Clara A

composer, was born Jan. 30, 1866, in Germany. Since 1893 she has been connected with the National conservatory as one of the faculty, and in 1897 was in charge of counterpoint and fugue classes, the only woman holding such a position in any of the standard music schools in America or Europe.

Kornderfer, Augustus

educator, author, was born Oct. 27, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was professor of clinical medicine in Hahnemann Medical college from 1866 to 1881. He translated from German, and published in this country, Boenninghausen's Homœopathic Therapeia of Intermittent and other Fevers, a work of great value.

Kornitzer, Joseph

surgeon, author, was born Oct. 27, 1824, in Hungary. He is the author of Proclamation of the Redemption of the Soil as the Final Redemption of Society; and Wealth and Progress.

KOUNS (koonz), NATHAN CHAP- MAN, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 17, 1833, in Fulton, Mo. He was a Missouri lawyer, state librarian at Jefferson City since 1886, and published two historical romances, Arius the Libyan; and Dorcas the Daughter of Faustina. He died in 1890.