Kennedy, William Sloane – Kenyon, William Colgrove
Kennedy, William Sloane
clergyman, author, was born June 3, 1822, in Muncy, Pa. He was a congregational clergyman of Ohio; and the author of Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; History of the Plan of Union; and Sacred Analysis. He died in 1861.
Kennedy, William Sloane
author, was born in 1850 in Ohio. He is a writer of Belmont, Mass., and the author of Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier; Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Poems of the Weird and Mystical; Reminiscences of Walt Whitman; Art of Life, a Ruskin Anthology; Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Portia's Gardens; and Bibliography and Literary History of Leaves of Grass.
Kenner, Duncan F
planter, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1813 in New Orleans. He served for several terms in the Louisiana legislature; and was a member of the confederate congress. He owned one of the largest stockfarms in the United States. He died July 3, 1887, in New Orleans.
Kennett, a. Crosby
manufacturer, legislator, state senator, was born July 27, 1859, in Madison, N. H. He is a successful spool manufacturer of Conway, N. H.; has been a representative in the New Hampshire state legislature; and is now a member of the state senate.
Kennett, Luther M
merchant, railroad president, congressman, was born March 15, 1807, in Falmouth, Ky. In 1850 he was elected mayor of St. Louis, and reelected in 1851 and 1852. In 1853 he was elected president of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad; and was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1855 to 1857.
Kenney, Richard R
lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in Sussex county, Del. He was elected state librarian in 1879, and held that office for two terms. He was appointed adjutantgeneral of Delaware in 1887, and retired from that office at the end of his term in. 1891. He was delegate to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1892; was made a member of the democratic national committee in 1896, which position he still holds. He was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1897, to fill a vacancy.
Kennon, William
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1829 to 1833, from 1833 to 1837, and from 1847 to 1849.
Kenrick, Francis Patrick
archbishop, author, was born Dec. 3, 1797, in Ireland. He was the Roman catholic archbishop of Baltimore in 1851-63; and the author of Theologia Dogmatica; Theologia Moralis; The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated; Vindication of the Catholic Church; and End of Religious Controversy Controverted. He also published a translation of the Scriptures with commentary. He died July 6, 1863, in Baltimore, Md.
Kenrick, Peter Richard
archbishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1806, in Ireland. He was the first Roman catholic archbishop of St. Louis. In the Ecumenical council of 1870 he actively opposed the dogma of papal infallibility; and the author of The Holy House of Lorretto; Anglican Ordinations; and Concia in Concilio Vaticana. He died in 1896.
Kent, Aratus
clergyman, was born Jan. 15, 1794, in Suffield, Conn. He organized the first presbyterian church in Galena, Ill., in 1831, and was its pastor till 1848, when he became agent for the Home Missionary society in northern Illinois, serving till 1868. He was one of the founders of Beloit college and of Rockford Female seminary. He died Nov. 8, 1869, in Galena, III.
Kent, Edward
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1802, in Concord, N. H. In 1827 he was appointed chief justice of the court of sessions for Penobscot county; and from 1829 to 1833 was a member of the Maine legislature.
He was governor of Maine from 1838 to 1840; and in 1843 was appointed by the legislature one of the commissioners for settling the Maine boundary line under the Ashburton treaty. In 1859 he was appointed associate judge of the supreme court of Maine. He died May 19, 1877, in Bangor, Maine.
Kent, Henry Brainard
author, was born Oct. 21, 1855, in Hopkinton, N. Y.
He was the author of A Graphic Sketch of the West. He died June 25, 1890, at Canon City, Colo., while traveling in the west.
Kent, Henry Oakes
soldier, lawyer, manufacturer, banker, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1834, in Lancaster, N. H. He received his education at the Lancaster academy; and in 1854 graduated from the Norwich university; and has had the degrees of B. S., A. M., LL. D. conferred upon him. In 1862 he was assistant adjutant-general of New Hampshire, and during the civil war he served with merit as colonel in the seventeenth regiment New Hampshire volunteers. He was naval officer for the port of Boston; delegate to three national conventions; has been state representative, senator, presidential elector, nominee for congress three times, and twice for governor. He is a successful attorney, and president of banks and the Lancaster Trust company; has owned and controlled paper mills and starch mills; and been director in various banks and insurance companies. He is a thirty-three degree mason; has been post commander of the Grand Army of the Republic; and for twelve years was engaged in journalism as editor. Also as a writer and speaker on economic, fraternal and masonic topics he is well known. was
Kent, James
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 31, 1763, in Putnam county, N. Y. He was a jurist of eminence, who chancellor of New York in 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia college in 1793-98, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of the state. His famous Commentaries on American Law, work of the highest authority, reached a thirteenth edition in 1884, that of Holmes a and Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York City. He died Dec. 12, 1847, in New York city.
Kent, James V
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 29, 1847, in Clinton county, Ind. In early days he taught school; then studied law; and in 1870- 73 was elected prosecuting attorney. During 1876-80 he was a member of the state senate of the Indiana legislature. Since 1896 he has been judge of the forty-fifth judicial circuit for the term ending in 1902.
Kent, Joseph
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Jan. 14, 1779, in Calvert county, Md. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1811 to 1815, and from 1821 to 1826; governor of Maryland from 1826 to 1829; and United States senator from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 24, 1837, near Bladensburg, Md.
Kent, Marvin
merchant, manufacturer, banker, railroad president, legislator, was born Sept. 21, 1816, in Ravenna, Ohio. He was educated chiefly at Tallmadge and Claridon academies, and received a thorough business training in the store of his father, Zenas Kent, foremost merchant of northern Ohio. He subsequently entered co-partnership with his father. Upon the death of his father a in 1865 he became president of the Kent's National bank, which position he still fills. In 1875 he was elected state senator, and declined a renomination. The town of Franklin Mills was changed to Kent in honor of its chief promoter.
Kent, Moss
congressman, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1807 and 1810 from Jefferson county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1817.
Kent, William
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1802. He was for many years a successful lawyer in New York city, and a judge of the circuit court.
For a short time he was a professor in Harvard university. He died Jan. 4, 1861, in Fishkill, N. Y.
Kenton, Simon
pioneer, soldier, was born April 13, 1755, in Fauquier county, Va. He commanded a battalion of Kentucky volunteers as major in 1793-94, became brigadier-general of Ohio militia in 1805, and fought at the battle of the Thames in 1813. He died April 29, 1836, in Logan county, Ohio.
Kenyon, James Benjamin
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 26, 1858, in Frankfort, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman of Syracuse who has written much verse of a pleasing if not very striking kind. He is the author of Out of the Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems; Songs in All Seasons; In Realms of Gold; At the Gate of Dreams; and An Oaten Pipe.
Kenyon, William Asbury
poet, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in Hingham, Mass.
His poems were suggested by prairie scenes, and satirize backwoods customs with more truth than poetry. These were included in Miscellaneous Poems, to which are added Writings in Prose on Various Subjects. He died Jan. 25, 1862, in Hingham, Mass.
Kenyon, William Colgrove
college president, was born Oct. 23, 1812, in Richmond, R. I. He was the founder and first president of Alfred university, which office he held for ten years. He died June 7, 1867, in England.
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