Knowles, John P – Kollock, Mary
Knowles, John P
lawyer, jurist, was born in Rhode Island. He was a resident of Providence; and in 1870 was appointed United States judge for the district of Rhode Island.
Knowles, Lucius James
inventor, was born July 2, 1819, in Hardwick, Mass.
In 1840 he put into operation several working models of steam engines, and during his experiments invented the Knowles safety steam-boiler feed-regulator. His next invention was a machine for spooling thread, which he began to manufacture in New Worcester. He died Feb. 25, 1884, in Washington, D. C.
Knowlton, Ebenezer
state legislator, congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He was elected to the Maine legislature in 1844, 1846, and 1848, serving during his second year as speaker. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1855 to 1857.
Knowlton, Edgar J
journalist, legislator, was born Aug. 8, 1856, in Sutton, N. H. He represented his district in the New Hampshire legislature for two years; and was mayor of his city for four years. He has been editor of the Manchester Union and Lockport Daily Union.
Knowlton, Helen Mary
artist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1832, in Littleton, Mass. She has exhibited charcoal sketches or landscapes and portraits in oil, in Boston, Philadelphia, New York and London, taught art students in the town and country, and written much on art. She has published the Talks on Art of William M. Hunt; and Hints to Pupils in Drawing and Painting.
Knowlton, Julius William
S01dier, state legislator, was born Nov. 28, 1838, in Southbridge, Mass. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He served two terms as representative in the legislature from Stratford, Conn., and in 1875 was appointed postmaster of Bridgeport, Conn.
Knowlton, Marcus Perrin
legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 3, 1839, in Wilbraham, Mass. In 1878 he was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature. In 1881 he was appointed justice of the superior court, and in 1887 was promoted to the supreme bench of the judicial court, which position he still fills.
Knowlton, Miles Justin
missionary, author, was born Feb. 8, 1825, in West Wardsborough, Vt. In 1860 he published in Chinese a manual for native preachers, called scripture Catechism.
Several churches were founded and visited regularly by him during his stay in China. He died Sept. 10, 1874, in China.
Knox, Mrs. Adeline
(TRAFTON), author, was born in 1845, in Maine. She is a novelist of St. Louis, and the author of Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl Abroad; and Dorothy's Experience.
Knox, Charles Eugene
clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1833, in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, N. J., since 1863. He is the author of A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the King; and Graduated Sundayschool Text-Books.
Knox, George William
educator, missionary, author, was born Aug. 11, 1853, in Rome, N. Y. He is a presbyterian missionary in Japan, and professor of ethics in the university of japan since 1886. He is the author of A Brief System of Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; and The Basis of Ethics. In English he has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.
Knox, Henry
soldier, was born July 25, 1750, in Boston, Mass. Prior to the revolution he was made a captain of an independent company of militia in Boston. In 1776 the corps was increased to three regiments, and he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1781 he received the commission of major-general. In 1785 he was appointed secretary of war; and after the adoption of the constitution he was appointed to the same office. He died Oct. 25, 1806, in Thomaston, Maine.
Knox, James
lawyer, merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1807, in Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses.
Knox, James L
railroad president, was born Sept. 26, 1851, in Coudersport, Pa. In 1892 he became president of the Coudersport and Port Alleghany railroad.
Knox, John
clergyman, author, was born June 17, 1790, near Gettysburg, Pa.
He was licensed by the associate reformed presbytery of Philadelphia in 1815, and became pastor of the collegiate reformed Dutch church in New York city in 1816.
He published occasional sermons and tracts. He died Jan. 8, 1858, in New York city.
Knox, John Jay
financier, author, was born March 19, 1828, in Knoxboro, N. Y. In 1872 he was appointed comptroller of the currency, and resigned in 1884. He was the author of United States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States Government.
He died in 1892.
Knox, Martin Van Buren
educator, college president, was born in 1841, in Schroon Lake, N. Y. He has been professor in the Baker university; and is now president of the Red River Valley university of Wahpeton, N. D.
Knox, Samuel
congressman. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress.
Knox, Thomas Wallace
journalist, author, was born June 26, 1835, in Pembroke, N. H. He was a journalist and traveler whose home was in New York city, and the author of Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles; and The Lost Army. He died in 1896.
Knox, William S
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1843, in Killingly, Conn. He was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1874-75, serving on the judiciary committee. He was city solicitor of Lawrence in 1875, 1876, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890; and is president of the Arlington National Bank of Lawrence. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Kobbe, Gustav
littérateur, author, was born in 1857 in New York. He is a littérateur of New York city, and the author of Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung; and New York City and its Environs.
Koch, Hermann A
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 4, 1828, in Germany. In 1856 he filled the chair of German in the Quincy college of Illinois; and from 1860 until his death was professor and president of the Central Wesleyan college of Warrenton, Mo.
Koch, Joseph
jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 28, 1844, in New York city.
In 1890 he was made commissioner of the board of excise of the city of New York.
He was elected to the New York state senate in 1881.
Koch, Richard Henry
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born April 2, 1852, in Middleport, Pa. During 1873-79 he filled the chair of mathematics in the Keystone State Normal school. In 1897 he became judge of the court of common pleas of the twenty-first judicial district of Pennsylvania.
Koehler, Robert
painter, was born Nov. 28, 1850, in Germany. In 1885 he took charge of a private school of art in New York city. His principal works are Holy-Day Occupation; Her Only Support; and The Strike.
Koehler, Sylvester Rosa
art critic, author, was born Feb. 11, 1837, in Germany. He is an art critic of Boston, editor of the American Art Review, and the author of American Art; and Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and History.
Koenig, George Augustus
chemist, was born about 1845, in Germany. In 1874 he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the university of Pennsylvania, becoming acting professor of geology and mining in 1879, and professor of mineralogy and metallurgy in 1886. His scientific work includes the invention of chronometry.
Kohlmann, Anthony
clergyman, was born July 13, 1771, in France. He was appointed pastor in New York in 1808, and founded an academy for boys called the New York literary institution, and another for girls under the charge of the Ursuline nuns. He died in April, 1838, in Rome, Italy.
Kohlsaat, Herman Henry
merchant, publisher, was born March 22, 1853, in Edwards county, Ill. His attention having been drawn to the profits of the luncheon and restaurant business, Mr.
Kohlsaat took an interest in an established concern in 1880, and in July, 1883, bought the business, which he developed into the largest of its class, certainly in Chicago, and possibly in the United States. In 1895 he entered the field of journalism as purchaser of The Herald and The Times of Chicago.
Kollen, Gerrit J
educator, college president, was born Aug. 9, 1843, in Netherlands. He is president of the Hope college of Holland, Mich. He has filled chairs of applied mathematics in several institutions of learning.
Kollock, Mary
artist, was born in 1840, in Norfolk, Va. She is a member of the Art Students' league, and of the Ladies' Art association, New York, in which she is an instructor in painting. Her contributions to the exhibitions of the National academy of design include Morning in the Mountains; Gleam of Sun-- shine (1882); On Rondout Creek; The Old Fiddler; Under the Beeches; and A.
Glimpse of the Catskills.