Kinsey, John – Kirkland, Joseph
Kinsey, John
jurist, journalist, state legislator, author, was born in 1693, in Philadelphia, Pa. Up to 1730 Kinsey resided in New Jersey, where he served in the assembly; but after this date he lived in Philadelphia, and in the same year was chosen to the assembly of Pennsylvania. He was attorney-general of the province from 1738 til 1741, and in 1743 was appointed chief justice, which post he held until his death. He published Laws of New Jersey, 1733. He died May 11, 1750, in Burlington, N. J.
Kinsey, William M
lawyer, congressman, was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Since 1875 he has been actively engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Kinsley, Martin
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born June 2, 1754, in Bridgewater, Mass. He served in the legislature of Massachusetts about thirty years; was also at different periods a member of the state council, a judge of the court of common pleas, and judge of probate; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821. He died June 20, 1835.
Kinsolving, George Herbert
bishop of Texas, was born April 28, 1849, in Bedford county, Va. In 1887 he was elected missionary bishop of western Texas.
Kinzie, John
founder of Chicago, was born in 1763, in Quebec, Canada. In 1804 he established a trading post on the site of the present city of Chicago, where he was the first white settler, and he subsequently founded others on Rock, Illinois, and Kankakee rivers. He died Jan. 6, 1828, in Chicago, Ill.
Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta
[MAGILL], author, was born in 1806, in Connecticut. She was a novelist of Chicago, and the author of Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; and Mark Logan.
Kip, Leonard
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in New York city.
He was a lawyer of Albany, and the author of California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal's Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty's; Thaloe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; and A Tale of the Incredible.
Kip, William Ingraham
bishop, author, was born Oct. 3, 1811, in New York city. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of California in 1853-93.
He was the author of Double Witness of the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; and The Olden Time in New York. He died April 6, 1893, in San Francisco, Cal.
Kirby, Edmund
soldier, was born in 1840, in Brownville, N. r. He was made first lieutenant on May 14, 1861, and was given the commission of brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from May 23, 1863. He died May 28, 1863, in Washington, D. C.
Kirby, Edward P
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 28, 1833, in Hadley, Ill. For two terms he was the county judge of Morgan county, Ill. He served as a member of the Illinois state legislature.
Kirby, Ephraim
soldier, jurist, legislator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1757, in Litchfield, Conn. He served at the battle of Bunker Hill, and remained in active service until the Declaration of Independ- He published a volume of Reports ence. of the Decisions of the Superior Court and Court of Errors, which was the first of that character published in Connecticut, and probably in the United States. From 1791 to 1804 he was a representative in the legislature. After the acquisition of Louisiana he was appointed a judge of the newly organized territory of Orleans. He died Oct. 2, 1804, in Stoddard, Miss.
Kirby, J. Hudson
actor, was born April 3, 1819, in New Jersey. During several years Kirby was engaged as leading performer at the Chatham Street National theater. Here he met with remarkable popularity in the dramas Six Degrees of Crime; The Surgeon of Paris; The Carpenter of Rouen; and others, that ran nightly for several seasons. He died in 1848, in England.
Kirby, Reynold Marvin
soldier, was born March 10, 1790, in Litchfield, Conn. He entered the army in 1813, and received the brevets of first lieutenant and captain for gallantry in the siege of Fort Erie. He became captain of artillery in 1824, and brevet major in the same year. He died Oct. 7, 1842, in Fort Sullivan, Maine.
Kirchhoff, Charles William Henry
mining engineer, journalist, was born March 28, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal. In 1886 he was made assistant editor of the Iron Age, and he became its editor in 1887. He has since 1882 prepared annually for the Mineral Resources of the United States chapters on certain of the heavier metals.
Kirchner, Otto
lawyer, educator, was born July 13, 1846, in Germany. During 1877-81 he was attorney-general of Michigan In 1885 he was appointed professor of law at Ann Arbor, and served one year; and in 1893 was re-appointed to the same position.
Kirk, Edward Norris
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 14, 1802, in New York city. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church in 1842-74, and the author of Sermons; The Parables of Our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; and Christian Sympathy Awakened. He died March 27, 1874, in Boston, Mass.
Kirk, Edward N
soldier, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Jefferson county, Ohio.
He organized the thirty-fourth Illinois regiment; and commanded a brigade at Shiloh, and at the siege of Corinth, on Nov. 29, 1862, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers. He aied July 26, 1863. was KIRK, MRS. ELLEN WARNER [OL- NEY]-HENRY HAYES-author, born Nov. 6, 1842, in Southington, Conn. She is a popular novelist of Germantown, Philadelphia, and the author of Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden's Choosing; Ciphers; and The Story of Lawrence Garthe.
Kirk, James William
journalist, was born in 1848, in Byron, N. Y. He was educated in the public schools of his native city; at Batavia academy; and at the Rockford State Normal school. Early in life he was engaged in mercantile business and school teaching. In 1871 he moved to East St. Louis, Ill., where for twenty years he has been the editor of the Daily Journal, of which he is now the principal owner. He has taken a prominent part in public affairs, and has held numerous offices of trust and honor.
Kirk, John Foster
author, was born March 22, 1824, in Fredericktown, N. B. He was the secretary to the historian Prescott for eleven years, and since 1885 lecturer on European history at the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of History of Charles the Bold; and Supplement to Allibone's Dictionary.
Kirk, John R
lawyer, educator, was born Jan. 21, 1851, in Bureau county, Ill.
He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Missouri; graduated from the State Normal school of Kirksville; attended the universities of Missouri and Kansas; and attained proficiency in Latin, Greek, science and mathematics. He has been county commissioner of schools of Harrison county; for eight years was superintendent of schools of Bethany; for seven years was connected with the principal schools of Kansas City; and since 1894 has been state superintendent of public schools for the state of Missouri.
Kirkbride, Thomas Story
physician, author, was born July 31, 1809, in Morrisville, Pa. He was a physician of Philadelphia, who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane in 1840-83. He was the author of Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; and Construction of Hospitals for the Insane.
He died Dec. 16, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Kirker, Thomas
governor. He was acting governor of Ohio in 1807.
Kirkham, Ralph Wilson
soldier, was born Feb. 20, 1821, in Springfield, Mass. During the civil war he served as chief quartermaster and was brevetted brigadier-general of the United States army.
Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Ma-
TILDA [STANSBURY], author, was born Jan. 12, 1801, in New York city. She was a once popular writer of New York city, and the author of A New Home; Who'll Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; and Forest Life. She died April 6, 1864, in New York city.
KIRKLAND, ELIZABETH STANS- BURY, educator, author, was born in 1828, in New York. She was an educator of Chicago, and the author of Six Little Cooks; Dora's Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; and Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. She died in 1896.
Kirkland, John Thornton
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1770, in Geneva, N. Y. He was a unitarian clergyman who was president of Harvard university in 1810-27; and the author of Life of Fisher Ames; and Eulogy of General Washington. He died April 24, 1840, in Boston, Mass.
Kirkland, Joseph
mayor, congressman, was born in 1771, in Old Norwich, Conn. He served frequently in the New York state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823. He died Jan. 26, 1844, in Utica, N. Y.