was among those who .were interested in the success of the Atlantic cable. Mr. Kitehing spent a large amount of money in the ship "Ericsson," which was intended to demonstrate the superiority of the method of propulsion by air-engines ; but on the trial-trip an accident occurred, causing the sink- ing of the vessel. In 1840 he removed to Brooklyn and was associated in the founding of several banks and in the establishment of the Polytechnic and Packer institutes. Later he was one of the promoters of the Manhattan market and the Gar- field national bank in New York city. In 1873 he was instrumental in founding St. John's school in New York city, which was conducted by his son-in-law, the Rev. Theodore Irving, and since the death of the latter by Mrs. Irving, Mr. Kitching's daughter. — His son, John Howard, soldier, b. in New York city, 16 July, 1840 ; d. in Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., 11 Jan., 1865, was educated in private schools in Brooklyn and New York, and at the beginning of the civil war enlisted as a private in the Lincoln cavalry. Soon afterward he received a captain's commission in the 2d New York artillery, and participated in all the battles of the peninsular campaign. In the autumn of 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the 135th New York volun- teers, which was afterward changed to the 6th artillery, and in April, 1863, he was appointed colonel of his regiment. Subsequently he was almost constantly in command of a brigade, and on 1 Aug., 1864. received the brevet of brigadier- general of volunteers. During 1863-'4 he was stationed with the artillery reserve at Harper's Perry, Brandv Station, and elsewhere in that vicinity. In May, 1804, he joined the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the overland cam- paign until July, 1864, when the 6th corps was detached from the army and sent to Washington, where Col. Kitehing continued to act as a brigade- commander in charge of the defences of the capital. Later he had command of a provisional division in the Army of the Shenandoah, and in the battle of Cedar Creek received wounds from the effects of which he died some months afterward. See " More than Conqueror : or Memorials of Col. J. Howard Kitehing " (New York, 1873).
KITTREDGE, Jonathan, temperance advocate, b. in Canterbury, N. II.. 17 July. 1793: d. in Concord, N. H., 8 April. 1864. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, read law in New York city. practised there seven years, and subsequently settling in Canaan, N. H., represented that town in the legislature. From 1855 till 1859 he was chief
i'ustice of the court of common pleas, and in the
atter year he removed to Concord, where he re-
sided until his death. Dartmouth gave him the
degree of LL. D. in 1858. Judge Kittredge was
an ardent temperance advocate, and delivered, at
Lyme, in January. 1827, the first temperance lec-
ture ever given in New Hampshire. This lecture
was published (Lyme, N. H., 1827), and was long a
popular tract on the subject.
KITTREDGE, Thomas, surgeon, b. in
Andover, Mass., in July, 1746; d. there in October,
1818. He studied medicine at Newburyport,
settling at Andover in 1768. He was appointed
surgeon in Col. James Frye's regiment in 1775, and
was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Dr. Kittredge
was an early member of the Massachusetts medical
society, and served in the legislature several terms
and in the council in 1810-'11.
KJOEPING, Oläus (kyuh-ping), Swedish
explorer, b. in Dalecarlia in 1741; d. in Soroe,
Denmark, in 1809. He entered the Danish service as
military surgeon, and was stationed for several
years in the West Indies, also visiting Louisiana,
Guiana, and New Spain. In 1796 he became rector
of the academy of Soroe. His works concerning
America, include “Beschreibung von Guiana”
(Soroe, 1797); “Neueste Gemälde von Louisiana
und Mississippi” (2 vols., 1792); “Prodromus floræ,
sistens enumerationem plantarum cellularium quas
in insulas, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Sancti Thomæ et
Sancti Bartholomei a Kjoeping collectas describit”
(Copenhagen, 1799); and “Anmärkningar om Planter
af Cuba” (3 vols., 1807).
KLEEBERG, Minna, poet, b. in Elsmhorn,
Holstein, Germany, 21 July, 1841; d. in New
Haven, Conn., 31 Dec., 1878. She was the daughter
of a physician named Cohen, and was carefully
trained by her father, early showing poetical taste.
In 1862 she married Rev. Dr. L. Kleeberg, with
whom she came to this country in 1866. Her
poems soon attracted attention, and her efforts to
repel anti-Semitic accusations gained general praise.
Most of her poems were published in Dr. L. Stein's
“Freitag-Abend,” at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and
they were collected in book-form just before her
death (Louisville, Ky., 1877).
KLEIN, Gustav Frederic (kline). German
missionary, b. in Mannheim in 1708; d. in Talca,
Chili, in November, 1771. He became a Jesuit,
and in 1733 was sent to the missions of Uruguay.
He was afterward rector of the College of Santiago,
dean of the cathedral of Quito, and, after the
expulsion of the order in 1767, settled in Talca,
where he bought a large estate. Klein devoted
most of his time to historical researches, and
published “Descripción general de la América
Española” (Buenos Ayres, 1737); “Resumen de la
historia de Chile” (Santiago, 1744); “Geographia
generalis, seu descriptio globi terrarumque” (1749);
“Documentos ineditos para la historia de Peru”
(3 vols., Quito. 1752); and “Memorias sobre las
colonias de España situadas en la costa occidental
de América” (5 vols., 1754). He left also several
manuscripts, which were forwarded to Rome after
his death, and published in the “Bibliotheca nova
Scriptorum Societatis Jesu,” including “Cronica
del reyno de Chile” (5 vols., Rome, 1789);
“Memorias dos estabelecimentos portuguezes na costa
do Brazil” (6 vols., 1790); and “Additamentos a's
ditas memorias, emque se referem algumas
particularedades acerca dos estabelecimentos
portuguezes do Brazil” (6 vols, 1792).
KLINGSOHR, John Augustus, clergyman, b.
near Dresden, Saxony, 13 June, 1746; d. in
Bethlehem, Pa., 5 Nov., 1798. He was graduated at
the University of Leipsic, where he studied both
theology and law. After serving the Moravian
church in Germany in various capacities, and being
ordained successively to the grades of deacon and
presbyter, he accepted an appointment as pastor of
the church at Bethlehem, Pa., where he arrived in
1783, and labored for fifteen years, until his death,
with great acceptance and success. He was a
learned theologian and distinguished preacher.
KLÜBER, Melchior, German explorer, b. in
Dessau in 1713; d. in Gotha in 1764. He entered
the ministry and became chaplain of the Prince of
Lippe-Detmold in 1752. He had read the pleadings
of Las Casas in behalf of the Indians, and
induced the prince to send him to South America to
ascertain the real condition of the Indians two
centuries after the conquest. Sailing from Bremen in
November, 1756, he landed in the following January
in Santo Domingo, but met there with difficulties
and was for some time unable to proceed on
his mission. At last he won the friendship of the
lieutenant of the king in Les Cayes, who gave him
