King, Yelverton P – Kinsey, James
King, Yelverton P
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1794, in Greene county, Ga. In 1830 he was made state superintendent of public lands; was frequently elected to the Georgia legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1840.
He died Aug. 5, 1868, in Greene county, Ga.
Kingsbury, Jacob
soldier, was born in 1755, in Norwich, Conn. He entered the continental army as a private in 1775, served in Wayne's Indian campaign, and was appointed lieutenant of infantry in 1789. He rose by regular promotion to the rank of inspector-general. He aied July 1, 1837, in Franklin, Mo.
Kingsbury, Joseph Thomas
educator, college president, was born Nov. 4, 1853, in North Weber, Utah. He has filled the chair of chemistry and physics in une university of Utah for many years past; and has been vice-president of that institution, and is now its honored president.
Kingsbury, William W
state legislator, congressman, was born June 4, 1828, in Towanda, Pa. He moved to Minnesota, and in the year 1855 was elected a member of the Minnesota legislature, and again in 1856. In 1857 he was delegate to the convention for framing a constitution for Minnesota; was elected a delegate to the thirty-fifth congress.
Kingsford, Thomas
inventor, was born Sept. 29, 1799, in Kent, England. He was the inventor of the manufacture of corn starch, founder of the Oswego Starch factory, and originator of one of America's great industries. He was the first man to suggest the manufacture of starch from Indian corn. The first lot of corn starch ever prepared for the general market was produced by Mr. Kingsford in 1842.
Kingsford, Thomson
manufacturer, was born April 4, 1828, in England.
All the machinery of the factory of T.
Kingsford and Son, at Bergen, N. J., was designed, made and set up by Thomson Kingsford, and, during the remainder of his father's life, he aided actively in the management of the starch industry, most of the mechanical improvements originating with him.
Kingsley, Mrs. Adelaide D
author, poet, was born in 1843 in Canada.
She is a successful writer of Blue Earth City, Minn.; the author of a story entitled Heart or Purse; and a volume of poems.
Kingsley, Calvin
bishop, author, was born in 1812, in Annsville, N. Y. He was a methodist bishop, and the author of The Resurrection of the Dead; and Round the World. He died April 6, 1870, in Syria.
Kingsley, James Luce
educator, author, was born Aug. 28, 1778, in Windham, Conn. He was the author of numerous valuable articles on historical subjects. He also published a History of Yale College; and several biographical and historical works. He died Aug. 31, 1852, in New Haven, Conn.
Kingsley, W. J. P
physician, surgeon, banker, was born in 1824, in Utica, N. Y. He attended the Whitestown seminary; the Geneva Medical college; and the New York Medical college, from which latter institution he received his degree of M. D. He has obtained success as a physician and surgeon of Rome, N. Y., and is widely known as a specialist in the treatment of malignant growths. He has been president of the Farmers' National bank; president of the Central New York Institute for Deaf Mutes; president of the Rome Cemetery association; and vicepresident of the Rome Brass and Copper company; mayor of his city; and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of Rome, N. Y.
Kinkead, John H
merchant, governor, was born Dec. 10, 1826, in Smithfield, Pa. He was treasurer of Nevada territory for three years; and was a member of the constitutional convention which framed the constitution under which Nevada was admitted as a state.
He was nominated for governor of Nevada in 1878, without solicitation; was elected and served four years-from 1879 to 1883; and in the latter year was appointed governor or of the district of Alaska.
Kinloch, Cleland
planter, state legislator, inventor, was born in 1759, in Charleston, S. C. He served frequently in the state legislature; was a delegate to the conventions of 1787 and 1790; also holding other offices. He was among the most successful rice planters in the state, and one of the first to adopt the tidewater cultivation and the new pounding and threshing machinery, and to encourage inventions and improvements. He died Sept. 23, 1823, in Acton, S. C.
Kinloch, Francis
congressman, was born March 7, 1755, in Charleston, S.
C. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1780 to 1781. He died Feb. 8, 1826, in Charleston, S. C.
Kinloch, Robert Alexander
educator, physician, surgeon, inventor, was born Feb. 20, 1826, in Charleston, S.
C. Since 1867 he has been professor of surgery in the medical college of South Carolina. In 1876 he was a delegate to the international medical congress. He has invented several surgical instruments and appliances, chiefly urethrotome stone pessaries. He was the first in the United States to reset the knee joint for chronic disease.
Kinnard, George L
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 26, 1838, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kinne, Aaron
clergyman, author, was born in 1745, in Lisbon, Conn. He was ordained in 1770, and had charge of a congregational church in Groton, Conn.
He published The Sonship of Christ; A Display of Scripture Prophesies; Explanation of the Types, Revelation, etc.; and An Essay on the New Heaven and Earth.
He died July 9, 1824, in Talmadge, Ohio.
Kinnersley, Ebenezer
electrician, educator, inventor, was born Nov. 30, 1711, in England. He was electrician and professor of English and natural philosophy in the college of Philadelphia from 1753 to 1773. In 1757 he invented an electrical thermometer, and that year was the first to prove that heat could be produced by electricity. He died July 4, 1778, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Kinney, Clesson S
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 5, 1859, in East Townsend, Ohio. He has become prominent in the profession of law, and is the author of Kinney on Irrigation.
Kinney, Coates
lawyer, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1826, in Penn Yan, N. Y. He is an Ohio lawyer and journalist, and the author of Keuka, and Other Poems; and Lyrics of the Real and Ideal.
The Rain Upon the Roof is his most familiar poem.
Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Cle-
MENTINE [DODGE] [STEDMAN], author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1810, in New York city. She was a poet of Newark, N. J., but resident in Italy in 1850-65, and the author of Felicita; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. She died Nov. 19, 1889, in Summit, N. J.
Kinney, John Fitch
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 2, 1816, in New Haven, N. Y. In 1853 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Utah, and went to that territory in 1854. In 1857 he moved to Nebraska territory; and in 1860 was again appointed chief justice of Utah, holding that office until 1863, when he was elected a delegate from Utah to the thirty-eighth congress.
Kinney, Jonathan Kendrick
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 26, 1843, in Royalston, Vt. He served in the volunteer army in the civil war, and at its close engaged in business in the west.
He has published A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States; and edited the Law of Railways.
Kinney, Narcissa Edith White
educator, temperance worker, was born July 24, 1854, in Grove City, Pa. She received her education in the Grove City academy, and at the Edinboro State Normal school, Pa. She has been teacher and superintendent in the training department of the Pennsylvania State Normal school; and for several years was institute instructor. She is a national lecturer and organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance union; has been state secretary of the Chautauqua association; director of the Oregon Summer school; and president of the State Woman's Christian Temperance union of Oregon.
Kinney, Thomas Talmadge
editor and proprietor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, was born Aug. 13, 1827, in Newark, N. J. He is editor and proprietor of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He was one of the projectors of the Newark Board of Trade and a delegate from that body to a convention in Philadelphia which organized the National Board of Trade.
Kinney, William Burnet
journalist, diplomat, was born Sept. 4, 1799, in Speedwell, N. Y. He was connected with the press of New Jersey, and in 1850 was appointed charge d'affaires to Sardinia, where he remained until 1853. He died Oct. 21, 1880, in Speedwell.
Kinsella, Thomas
journalist, congressman, was born in 1832, in Ireland. He held the local offices in Brooklyn of water commissioner and member of the board of education; and was nominated as postmaster of that city in 1866, and again in 1867, but was rejected by the senate. He was elected to the forty-second congress from New York as a democrat. He died Feb. 11, 1884, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Kinsey, Charles
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1817 to 1819, and from 1820 to 1821.
Kinsey, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 22, 1731, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775, when he resigned his seat. In 1789 he was appointed chief justice of New Jersey. he died Jan. 3, 1802, in Burlington, N. Y.