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Kilbourn, James – Kimball, Frank Willard

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Kilbourn, James

merchant, manufacturer, clergyman, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1770, in New Britain, Conn. From 1813 to 1817 he was a representative in congress from Ohio.

In 1823 he was elected to the Ohio legislature, serving on fourteen committees; and was re-elected in 1838. He died April 24, 1850, in Worthington, Ohio.

Kilbourne, James R

manufacturer, state legislator, was born Dec. 24, 1870, in Columbus, Ohio. He is a successful manufacturer of Columbus, Ohio, and was elected and served with distinction as a member of the seventy-second general assembly of Ohio.

Kilbourne, John

author, publisher, was born Aug. 7, 1787, in Berlin, Conn.

He published a Gazetteer of Vermont, a Gazetteer of Ohio, a map of Ohio, a volume of Public Documents Concerning the Ohio Canals; and a School Geography.

He died March 12, 1831, in Columbus, Ohio.

Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon

journalist, author, was born July 26, 1815, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a journalist of Connecticut and the author of The Skeptic and Other Poems, History of the County of Litchfield; and Chronicles of Litchfield. He died July 19, 1859, in Litchfield, Conn.

Kilburn, Charles Lawrence

soldier, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Lawrenceville, Pa. He served with distinction through the civil war; was brevetted brigadier-general; and retired from active service in 1882.

Kilburn, Lucian M

soldier, state senator, was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Boscawen, N. H. During the civil war he served in the sixteenth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry, and was in active service in the departments of the gulf under General Banks. He has served six years as a member of the Iowa state senate.

Kilgore, Constantine Buckley

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1835, in Newnan, Ga. He served in the confederate army, and in 1862 was made the adjutantgeneral of Ector's brigade, army of the Tennessee. He was elected justice of the peace in Rusk county, Texas, in 1869. He was elected to the state senate in 1884 for four years; was chosen president of that body in 1885 for two years. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Kilgore, Damon Young

lawyer, author, was born in 1827. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of Dangers Which Threaten the Republic; and Questions of the Day. He died in 1888.

Kilgore, Daniel

congressman, was born in Virginia. During 1835-39 he was a representative in congress from Ohio.

He died Dec. 12, 1851, in New York.

Kilgore, David

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 3, 1804, in Harrison county, Ky. He moved to Delaware county, Ky.; in 1833 was elected to the state legislature, and served several years, and in 1839 was elected by the legislature president judge of the judicial circuit in which he resided, and held the office seven years. In 1854 he was again elected to the legislature, and was speaker of the house. In 1856 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress.

Kille, Joseph

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841,

Killen, Henry Franklin

educator, clergyman, was born Feb. 27, 1864, in Union, Miss. He attended the Green Wood Normal institute; Kiachi college, Louisiana, and the Waco university, Texas. He has been principal of the Geneva academy; principal of the Plum Male and Female college; a clergyman in various baptist churches, and is now connected with the high school of Kirbyville, Texas.

Killen, William

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1722, in Ireland. He took an active part in the revolutionary war; during 1776-93 was first chief justice of the supreme court of Delaware; and chancellor of the state from 1793 till 1801. He died Oct. 3, 1805, in Dover, Del.

Killinger, John W

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1825, in Lebanon, Pa. He was attorney for Lebanon county, Pa., until 1849; was elected to the house of representatives of the state in 1850 and 1851; and was elected to the state senate in 1854, serving three years. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtysixth, thirty-seventh, forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was also elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.

Killingsworth, D. H

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 26, 1861, in Fayetteville, W. Va. In 1888 he graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Des Moines, Iowa, from the medical department of the Drake university. He then took a post-graduate course in the New York Medical school, and was president of his class in college. He has attained success in his profession at Tingley, Iowa.

Kilmer, Chauncey

manufacturer, was born March 23, 1816, in Rock City Falls, N. Y. He has supplied the New York Sun with more than $7,000,000 worth of paper. From 1850 to 1857 he held an interest in five different paper mills, which ran continuously day and night, every day of the year except Sunday.

His success has been remarkable. He has taken an active part in the public and business affairs of his city, county and state.

Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson

soldier, diplomat, was born Jan. 14, 1836, near Deckertown, N. J. He was captain of the eighteenth artillery in 1864; was brevetted major-general for the capture of Fayetteville, N. C., in 1865; was majorgeneral of the United States army for cam paign in the Carolinas, and majorgeneral of volunteers in 1865. He was minister to Chili from 1865 to 1870; and was again appointed minister to Chili in 1881. He died Dec. 4, 1881, in Santiago, Chili.

Kilton, James A

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1862, in Providence, R.

I. He served as a member of the Colorado house of representatives in the ninth general assembly, and is the national president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.

Kilty, William

lawyer, jurist. He settled in the city of Washington in 1800, and in the following year was appointed chief justice of the circuit court for the District of Columbia.

Kimball, Alanson M

merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born March 12, 1827, in Buxton, Maine. He moved to the state of Wisconsin, and there became a member of the legislature in 1863 and 1864. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fourth congress.

Kimball, Arthur Lalanne

educator, author, was born in 1856 in New Jersey. He is a professor of physics at Amherst college since 1891, and the author of The Physical Properties of Gases.

Kimball, Charles Hazen

lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was born Jan. 1, 1846, in Carthage, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, attended Rome academy; and subsequently graduated from the St. Lawrence university of Canton, N.

Y., and from the Albany Law school.

During the civil war he served with distinction as first lieutenant of the fortythird regiment, United States colored infantry. He is one of the most prominent lawyers of the west, and for eight years served as a state senator in the Kansas legislature. He has been president of the Parsons and Pacific Railroad company; president of the Kansas City and Pacific Railroad company; president of the Parsons Water company; president of the Parsons Crystal Ice company; president of the Parsons Telephone company; president of the Kansas City and Pacific Telegraph company; and president of the Badger Mining and Milling company of Denver.

Kimball, Edgar Allan

soldier, was born Jan. 3, 1822, in Pembroke, N.

H. In 1847-48 he was a captain and brevet-major in the United States army; served with gallantry in the Mexican war; was the first man to scale the walls of Chapultepec, and received the surrender of the castle. In 1862 he was colonel of a New York regiment of Zouaves. He died April 12, 1863, in Suffolk, Va.

Kimball, Ellen Packard

educator, poet, was born Oct. 9, 1848, in Woodstock, Maine. Early in life she commenced educational work, and has ever since been engaged as teacher in the public schools. She is the author of many meritorious poems, some of which have been given a place in Poets of America, and other standard works.

Kimball, Emma A

poet, was born Dec. 22, 1847, in Rye, N. H. For many years she taught school; is a successful poet of Haverhill, Mass., and the author of a volume of poems entitled Wayside Flowers.

Kimball, Frank Willard

lawyer, lecturer, musician, was born Dec. 10, 1866, in Augusta, Maine. In 1884 he entered the Hesperian academy of San Luis Obispo, California, and subsequently continued his education in Boston and Somerville, Mass. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in his profession. He is an eloquent and logical speaker, and has attained success on the lecture platform. He is a writer and musician, and the author of the Saxoptione Quartette.

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