Keyes, Edward Lawrence – Kiernan, James Lawlor
Keyes, Edward Lawrence
physician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1843, in Charleston, S. C. He is a physician of New York city; and the author of The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis; Venereal Diseases; and Genito-Urinary Diseases.
Keyes, Elias
state legislator, congressman, was born in Ashford, Conn. He was a member of the legislature of Vermont from Stockbridge county for a period of eighteen years; and from 1803 to 1818 was a state councilor. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1821 to 1823.
Keyes, Emerson Willard
lawyer, author, was born June 30, 1828, in Jamestown, N. Y. He has been superintendent of public instruction in the state of New York; superintendent of bank department, state of New York; and has filled numerous public positions of honor in the city of Brooklyn and the state of New York. He is a successful lawyer, and the author of Keyes' Court of Appeals Reports, in four volumes; History of Savings Banks in the United States, in two volumes; Code of Public Instruction; Principles of Civil Government in the State of New York; and sundry pamphlets, addresses, legislative reports, and various valuable papers.
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Keyes, Erasmus Darwin
soldier, author, was born May 29, 1810, in Brimfield, Mass. He was a major-general in the federal army in the civil war; and the author of Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events. He died in 1895.
Keyes, John Arnold
lawyer, legislator, was born June 23, 1859, in Chelsea, Vt. He attended the Chelsea academy; studied law, and in 1884 was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Vermont.
In 1885 he moved to Winona, Minn.; and in 1889-91 was elected and served with distinction as a member of the Minnesota state legislature. In 1892 he moved to Duluth; was a candidate for attorneygeneral of Minnesota in 1894, and in 1896 on the silver ticket. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Minnesota, and has a lucrative practice in Duluth.
Keyl, Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm
clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1804, in Germany. For many years he was president of the eastern district of the Missouri synod, of which he was a founder. He was the author of Lutherophilus; and various other works. He died Aug. 4, 1872, in Monroe, Mich.
Keys, William Reed
educator, journalist, was born June 12, 1859, in Jonesboro, Tenn. He has attained success as an educator and journalist, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Keyser, Ephraim
sculptor, was born Oct. 6, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He studied sculpture at the Royal academies in Munich, Berlin and Rome. He executed the De Kalb statue at Annapolis, Md.; and the Chester A. Arthur memorial at Albany, N. Y.
Keyser, Leander S
clergyman, author, poet, was born March 13, 1857, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He is a successful clergyman of Springfield, Ohio; and the author of The Only Way Out; Epochs of a Life; and a volume of poems.
Keyser, Peter Dirck
surgeon, author, was born Feb. 8, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a surgeon of Philadelphia who has published Operations for Cataracts, and other works on diseases of the eye. He died in 1897.
Kibbee, Charles Carroll
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in Macon, Ga. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1870 was elected a state senator from Georgia; and in 1874 was elected judge of the superior court.
Kidd, Edwin Ethelbert
soldier, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1836, in Alabama. He served as a captain in the confederate army until the close of the war. He has been a member of the Louisiana legislature for several terms.
He is the author of a number of poems, some of which have been set to music.
Kidd, William
navigator, was born in Scotland. He followed the sea from his youth; and about 1695 was known as one of the boldest and most successful shipmasters that sailed from New York.
He subsequently became a noted pirate; was arrested and sent to England for trial; and was executed May 24, 1701, in London.
Kidder, Daniel Parrish
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 18, 1815, in Darien, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of prominence who held professorships in several theological institutions. He was the author of Homiletics; The Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the Mormons; Sketches of a Residence in Brazil; Helps to Prayer; and co-author with J. C. Fletcher, of Brazil and the Brazilians. He died in 1891.
Kidder, David
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1787, in Dresden, Maine.
He settled in Somerset county, where he was county attorney from 1811 to 1823; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1823 to 1827. He was also a member of the state legislature in 1829.
He died Nov. 1, 1860.
Kidder, Frederick
merchant, author, was born April 16, 1804, in New Ipswich, N. H. He was a Boston merchant among whose historical monographs are: The Boston Massacre; and The Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell. He died Dec. 19, 1885, in Melrose, Mass.
Kidder, Jefferson P
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1814 in Braintree, Vt. He was state's attorney from 1842 to 1847; a member of the state senate in 1847 and 1848; and lieutenantgovernor in 1853 and 1854. He removed to Minnesota in 1857; and was elected to the legislature in 1860, 1862, and 1863.
He was appointed an associate judge of the supreme court of Dakota in 1865, and removed there; and was reappointed in 1869, and again in 1873. After holding the position ten years he resigned on being elected a delegate from Dakota to the forty-fourth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress; and in 1883 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota. He died Oct. 2, 1883, in St. Paul, Minn.
Kidder, John Flint
railroad president, was born July 2, 1830, in New York city. Since 1884 he has been president of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railroad.
Kidder, Wellington Parker
inventor, was born Feb. 19, 1853, in Norridgewock, Maine. He is the inventor of the Franklin typewriter, and more recently another, which has not yet been named.
Kiddle, Henry
educator, author, was born Jan. 15, 1824, in England. He was an educator who was superintendent of the schools of New York city in 1870- 79. He was the author of Text-Book of Physics; Elements of Astronomy; and Dictionary of Education, which include his most important works. He died in 1891.
Kiddoo, Joseph B
soldier, was born about 1840 in Pennsylvania. He was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of United States volunteers, and colonel and brigadier-general United States army, and he was retired in 1870 with the full rank of brigadier-general in the regular army.
Kidwell, Zedekiah
physician, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 4, 1814, in Fairfax county, Va. He served a number of years in the legislature of Virginia; and was a presidential elector in 1852. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1853 to 1857. He died April 27, 1872, in Fairmount, Va.
Kiefer, Andrew R
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born in Marienborn. He was elected clerk in the legislature in 1860; entered the union army as captain in the second Minnesota infantry volunteers in 1861; commissioned colonel of militia in 1863; and elected member of state legislature in 1864. He was elected to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses.
Kiefer, Herman
physician, surgeon, college president, author, was born Nov. 19, 1825, in Germany. In 1866-67 he he was a member of the Detroit board of eduof education, and in 1882 he became a member of the public library commission, being re-elected in 1883 for a term of six years.
Kieffer, Aldine Silliman
journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 1, 1840, in Miami, Mo. He is the editor and proprietor of The Musical Million of Dayton, Va. He is the author of two volumes of poems, entitled Vigil and Vision, and Hours of Fancy; and numerous collections of school and church music.
Kieffer, Henry Martyn
clergyman, author, was born in 1845 in Pennsylvania. He is a German reformed clergyman of Norristown, and subsequently of Easton, Pa.; and the author of The Recollections of a Drummer Boy.
Kieffer, Moses
clergyman, college president, was born May 5, 1814, in Letterkenny, Pa. In 1855 he became president of Heidelberg college of Tiffin, Ohio, which post he held till 1864, serving as professor in the theological department from 1855 till 1867. He is now a pastor in Gettysburg, Pa.
Kieft, Wilhelm
was the third governor of New York.
Kiekhoefer, H. J
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 10, 1849, in Germany. He attended the Galesville university, in which institution he subsequently filled the chair of ancient languages. He also attended the North Western college of Naperville, Ill., of which institution he is now president and professor of intellectual and moral philosophy. For many years he filled the chair of systematic theology in the Union Biblical institute.
Kiernan, James Lawlor
soldier, educator, journalist, physician, surgeon, was born in 1837, in New York city. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863. He served as surgeon of the United States pension bureau; and after the war became United States consul to Chin Kiang, China. He died Nov. 26, 1869, in New York city.