Kelly, William – Kendall, Edward Hale
Kelly, William
philanthropist, state senator, was born Feb. 4, 1807, in New York city. He was president of the state agricultural society in 1854; one of the founders of the state agricultural college at Ovid, N. Y.; and president of its board of trustees. He was a state senator in 1855-56; and the unsuccessful democratic candidate for governor of New York in 1860. He died Jan. 14, 1872, in Torquay, England.
Kelly, William
inventor, was born Aug. 22, 1811, in Pittsburg, Pa. At the age of eighteen he built a propelling water-wheel, and four years later a revolving steam engine. He died Feb. 11, 1888, in Louisville, Ky.
Kelly, William D
merchant, state legislator, was born Nov. 26, 1865, in Ferrysburg, Mich. For many years he was successfully engaged in the wholesale lumber business in Muskegon, Mich.; and for a number of years past has given his attention to the real estate and insurance business. In 1892 he was one of the organizers of the chamber of commerce, of which he is secretary. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature; and received re-election to that office in 1897.
Kelsey, Charles Boyd
physician, surgeon, author, was born Nov. 1, 1850, in Farmington, Conn. In 1888-89 he was appointed professor of diseases of the rectum in the university of Vermont. He is the author of Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences; and Encyclopedic Medical Directory.
Kelsey, William D
lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1847, in LeClaire, Iowa. For five years he was postmaster under President Grant; has served as clerk of the district court; was district attorney; and is now one of the foremost lawyers of Colorado, with a large practice in Holyoke.
Kelsey, William H
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1812, in Smyrna, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyfourth and thirty-fifth congresses; and reelected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
Kelso, Charles D
lawyer, was born Sept. 20, 1863, in New Albany, Ind.
He attended the Louisville Law school; was admitted to the bar; for four years was city attorney of his native town; and for two years county attorney of Floyd county, Ind. He is a member of the law firm of Kelso and Kelso, of New Albany.
Kelso, James V
soldier, lawyer, was born April 16, 1835, in Madison, Ind.
He received the rudiments of his education in the common and high schools of his native county; attended the New Albany university, and the Asbury university. He served three years as a union soldier during the civil war, and participated in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. For eight years he was city attorney of New Albany, Ind.; for ten years was county attorney of Floyd county; and for three years was trustee of the New Albany city schools.
Kelso, John R
soldier, congressman, was born March 21, 1831, in Franklin county, Ohio. He served through the war for the union as a lieutenant and captain; and in 1864 was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-ninth congress.
Kelso, Thomas
philanthropist, was born in 1784, in Ireland. He founded the Kelso orphan home, for the orphans of members of the methodist church, at a cost of $120,000; and gave liberally to churches in Baltimore and Washington.
He died July 26, 1878, in Baltimore, Md.
Kelton, John Cunningham
soldier, author, was born June 24, 1828, in Delaware county, Pa. He is a brigadiergeneral in the United States army; and the author of New Manual of the Bayonet; Fencing with Foils; Pigeons as Couriers; and Information for Riflemen.
Kem, Omer Madison
congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1855, in Wayne county, Ind. In 1890 he removed to Broken Bow, Neb., to fill an appointment as deputy treasurer of Custer county. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a populist.
Kemble, Frances Anne
actress, author, was born in 1809. She is better known as Fanny Kemble. She wrote several plays; a story of her life on a Georgia plantation; and numerous poems, which were published in Boston.
Kemble, Gouverneur
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1786, in New York city. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1841. He died Sept. 16, 1875, in Cold Spring, N. Y.
Kemeys, Edward
sculptor, was born Jan. 31, 1843, in Savannah, Ga. He has made a specialty of the wild animals of the American continent. His Fight Between Buffalo and Wolves has attracted much attention.
Kemp, Ellwood L
educator, lecturer, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in Hamburg, Pa. He has been president of the Palatinate college of Myerstown, Pa.; and is now connected with the state normal school of East Stroudsburg, Pa. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled, An Idyl of the War, and Other Poems.
Kemp, Henry E
merchant, legislator, was born Nov. 30, 1860, in Bristol, Wis. He is a successful hardware merchant of Phoenix, Arizona; and a heavy stockholder in various other business enterprises. He served with distinction as a member of the eighteenth legislative council of the Arizona territorial legislature, from Maricopa county. He was the first president of the Phoenix chamber of commerce; and has taken a prominent part in the business and public affairs of Arizona.
Kemp, Mrs. Isabel F
poet, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Eaglefield, Ind. She has attained success as a vocalist and a teacher of music; and is also the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Kemp, James
bishop, author, was born in 1764, in Scotland. Having been elected by the convention of Maryland, he was consecrated, in 1814, suffragan bishop; and in 1816 he succeeded to the bishopric.
He published, in addition to several occasional discourses, A Tract on Conversion; Letters in Vindication of Episcopacy; A Sermon on Deathbed Repentance; and A Sermon on the Death of Bishop Claggett. He died Oct. 28, 1827, in Baltimore, Md.
Kemper, General William Har- Rison
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 16, 1839, in Rush county, Ind. In 1865 he graduated from the Long Island college with the degree of M. D. He has attained success in his profession at Muncie, Ind.; has been coroner of Delaware county; examining surgeon for pensions; and in 1886. was elected president of the Indiana State Medical society. He served through the war, first as a private in the seventh regiment, and became assistant surgeon of the seventeenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He has contributed more than fifty articles to medical societies and journals; and is a member of the leading medical bodies of America.
Kemper, James Lawson
soldier, legislator, governor, was born June 11, 1823, in Madison county, Va. He served through the war with Mexico as a captain; and served ten years in the legislature of his native state. He served as a colonel, and became a major-general in the confederate army during the rebellion. In 1874 he was elected governor of Virginia.
Kempshall, Thomas
congressman, was born in England. He was a representative in congress from New York state from 1839 to 1841; and was one of the pioneers of Rochester, where he died Jan. 14, 1865.
Kempster, Walter
soldier, physician, author, was born May 25, 1842, in London, England. Entering the national army as a private, he served throughout the civil war, and in 1865 became acting assistant surgeon. Since 1873 he has been superintendent of the Northern Wisconsin hospital for the insane, at Oshkosh, Wis.
Kenan, Thomas
state senator, congressman, was born in 1771 in Duplin county, N. C. In 1799 he was a member of the house of delegates; served in the state senate in 1804; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1805 to 1811. He subsequently moved to Alabama, where he served for many years in the legislature of that state, but declined a re-election to congress. He died Oct. 22, 1843, near Selma, Ala.
Kendall, Adelbert A
lawyer, jurist, was born March 3, 1851, in Janesville, Wis. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar; in 1893 was appointed judge of the eleventh judicial district of Nebraska; was elected to fill the vacancy in 1894; and re-elected to the same position in 1895. He has acquired a good reputation as an able lawyer of St. Paul, Neb.
Kendall, Amos
author, journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1789, in Dunstable, Mass. In 1829 he was appointed fourth auditor of the treasury of Kentucky; and in 1835 was promoted to the position of postmaster-general. He subsequently took up his residence in Washington City. He was the founder of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Washington. He wrote a History of His Life and Times; and a Life of Andrew Jackson. He died Nov. 11, 1869, in Washington, D. C.
Kendall, Charles West
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born April 22, 1828, in Searsmont, Maine. He was educated at Phillips' academy, Massachusetts, and attended a partial course at Yale college, studied law in Sacramento, Cal., and practiced in Nevada. He was a member of the legislature of California in 1861 and 1862; and was elected to the forty second and forty-third congresses from Nevada. He is a successful orator; and served on several important committees while in congress.
Kendall, Edward Hale
architect, was born July 31, 1842, in Boston, Mass.
He was associated in designing the original Equitable building; and was the architect of the German Savings bank on Fourth avenue; the Washington building on lower Broadway; and the residences of Robert and Ogden Goelet on Fifth avenue, New York city.