Kittredge, Thomas – Kneeland, Samuel
Kittredge, Thomas
surgeon, state legislator, was born in 1746, in Andover, Mass. He was appointed surgeon in Colonel James Frye's regiment in 1775, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served in the legislature several terms and in the council in 1810-11. He died in October, 1818, in Andover, Mass.
Klauser, Karl
music teacher, editor of musical works, was born Aug. 24, 1823, in Russia. He edited Half Hours with the Best Composers, and also with Theodore Thomas and Professor Paine, compiled a biographical work entitled Famous Composers.
Kleber, John C
educator, lawyer, was born Aug. 1, 1861, in Milwaukee, Wis.
He is a lineal descendant of General Kleber, who fought under Napoleon at Mount Tabor and in Egypt, at which latter place he was killed. Mr. Kleber received his education at the Lawrence university and at the Oshkosh normal school. For several years he was engaged in educational work; and is now a rising lawyer of Olympia, Wash.
Kleberg, Rudolph
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 26, 1847, in Austin county, Tex. He was elected to the state senate as a democrat in the fall of 1882; and was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Texas in the fall of 1885, and served four years. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat.
Kleiner, John J
soldier, educator, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1845, in West Hanover, Pa. He served in the union army during the civil war. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Kletzing, Henry F
educator, librarian, was born Nov. 24, 1850, in Fairview, Pa. He attended Ursinus college, Pennsylvania; then taught school for five years in Iowa; and completed his classical course in the Northwestern college of Naperville, Ill. For the past eighteen years he has been professor of mathematics in the Northwestern college, and also its librarian. He has received the degree of A. M., and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Kline, Mary Rachel
educator, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1843, in Mukwonago, Wis. In her youtn she taught school; and has attained success as a poet of Wisconsin. Her poems have constantly appeared in the periodical press, and received recognition in Poets of America and other standard works. For eleven years she was blind, when the light was again restored, after many painful operations. con-
Klingensmith, John
JR., congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.
Klotz, Robert
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1819, in Carbon county, Pa. He was a lieutenant of volunteers in the war with Mexico. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1848 and 1849. He was elected treasurer of Carbon county in 1859; was elected a trustee of Lehigh university; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Knapp, Anthony L
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 14, 1828, in Middletown, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected to the senate of Illinois, attending the sessions of 1859 and 1861; and in the latter year was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 he was elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
Knapp, Arthur May
clergyman, author, was born in 1841, in Massachusetts. He is a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Mass., since 1891, and the author of Feudal and Modern Japan.
Knapp, Charles
merchant, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1797, in Colchester, N. Y. He was a member of the New York state legislature in 1841. He settled in the town of Deposit in 1848; organized the Deposit bank in 1854, which in 1864 became a national bank, of which he was president. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.
Knapp, Charles
educator, lecturer, author, was born June 22, 1868, in New York city. Since 1891 he has been an instructor of Latin in Barnard college of New York city, and has lectured extensively on subjects connected with Roman Archæology. He has edited and published several Latin text-books.
Knapp, Charles Junius
banker, state legislator, congressman, was born June 30, 1845, in Pepacton, N. Y. For many years he was president of the board of education; was elected supervisor in 1885 and 1886; and served as member of the New York state legislature in 1886 and 1888. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Knapp, Charles Welbourne
journalist, was born Jan. 23, 1848, in St.
Louis, Mo. He received his education at the St. Louis university; and graduated in 1865 with the degree of A. B.; and received from the same institution the degree of A. M. In 1867 he attended the Columbia college, and the university of Kentucky, from which institution he received the degree of LL.B. in 1867. He is a successful journalist, and the president and general manager of the St. Louis Republic. During 1895-98 he was president of the American Newspaper Publishers' association; a member of the board of directors of the Associated Press during 1891-98; and in 1896-99 a member of the board of directors of the St. Louis public library.
Knapp, Chauncey L
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1809, in Berlin, Vt. Removing to Massachusetts he was elected secretary of the Massachusetts senate in 1851; was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress.
Knapp, Francis
author, poet, was born in 1672, in England. He was a musical composer, and the author of A Poetical Epistle to Mr. B., reprinted in J. Nichols's Select Collection of Poems; and of a poetical Address to Mr. Alexander Pope, on his Windsor Forest. He died after 1715.
Knapp, Isaac
abolitionist, journalist, was born Jan. 11, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1825 he bought the Northern Chronicle; and in 1840 became part owner of the Liberator. He was one of the founders of the New England Anti- Slavery society. He died Sept. 14, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Knapp, Jacob
clergyman, was born Dec. 7, 1799, in Otsego county, N. Y. In his revival work he visited New York, New England, and the western states, including California, preached about 16,000 sermons, led 200 young men to become clergymen, and baptized 4,000 persons. He died March 2, 1874, in Rockford, Ill.
Knapp, Jacob Hermann
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born March 17, 1832, in Prussia. He founded the New York ophthalmic and aural institute in 1869, and since that date has been its surgeon.
Knapp, Joseph G
lawyer, jurist. He was a citizen of Wisconsin, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico, residing at Santa Fe.
Knapp, Lyman Enos
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, governor, was born Nov. 5, 1837, in Somerset, Vt. He served in the civil war and was brevetted by President Lincoln for gallantry at Petersburg, Va. He served as a member of the Vermont state legislature, and for ten years was judge of probate court of Addison district of Vermont. In 1889-93 he served as governor of Alaska.
Knapp, Martin W
clergyman, author, poet, was born March 27, 1853, in Clarendon, Mich. He is a successful clergyman of Albion, Mich.; and the editor of The Revivalist. He is the author of Christ Crowned Within; and Out of Egypt into Canaan; and a volume of poems.
Knapp, Robert M
lawyer, congressman. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-third congress; and was also elected to the fortyfifth congress.
Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 19, 1783, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a lawyer of New York city, among whose many works are The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; and Female Biography. He died July 8, 1838, in Newburyport, Mass.
Knapp, Seaman Asahel
farmer, educator, college president, was born Dec. 16, 1833, in Essex county, N. Y. After receiving a thorough education he took the chair of Greek and higher mathematics in the Fort Edward Collegiate institute. In 1869 he was elected president of the Iowa State College for the Blind. Six years later he resigned this position and devoted himself to the agricultural interests of the state; was prominent in the organization of the Iowa Stock Breeders' association, of which he was first president. In 1879 he was elected professor of agriculture, and afterward president of the State Agricultural college at Ames. The degree of LL.B. was conferred upon him in 1882 by the Upper Iowa university.
Knapp, Walter H
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born March 23, 1856, in Hopewell, N. Y. He has attained success in the profession of law at Canandaigua, N. Y.; and is now judge of Ontario county, term commencing in 1897.
Kneeland, Abner
clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 6, 1774, in Gardner, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in 1832. He was the author of The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; and Review of Evidences of Christianity. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Kneeland, Samuel
printer, journalist, was born in 1696, in Boston, Mass. Besides many religious books and pamphlets, he published The Gazette from 1727 till 1741, and The New England Weekly Journal from 1741 till 1752. He died Dec. 14, 1769, in Boston, Mass.