in 1783, and established the "New York Gazet- teer," and in 1787 removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., and revived his first journal, which he edited for thirty-one years. He was judge of common pleas thirty-five years and postmaster of Elizabethtown from 1820 till 1829. — His son, Henry, clergyman, b. in New Providence, N. J., 14 Dec, 1778 ; d. in Savannah, Ga., 29 Dec, 1819, was graduated at Princeton in 1794, and was tutor there from 1797 till 1800, at the same time studying theology. He was licensed to preach on 7 May, 1800, and in December he became professor of divinity in Princeton, and pastor of the church there. Prom 1800 till his death he was pastor of the independ- ent Presbyterian church in Savannah, Ga. In 1817 he spent eight months in England to collect materials for a life of John Calvin. Dr. James W. Alexander, in his memoir of Archibald Alexander (New York, 1854), spoke of him as " one of the most ornate yet vehement orators whom our country has produced." Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1806. His sermons were published, with a memoir, by his brother (4 vols., Savannah, 1822). — Another son, Shepard Kosciuszko, clergyman, b. in Elizabethtown, N. J., 29 June, 1795; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 7 April, 1865, was graduated at Princeton in 1812, studied theology with Dr. John McDowell and his brother, was licensed to preach in 1814, and ordained in 1818 as pastor of a Presby- terian church in Oxford, N. C. He was soon ap- pointed professor of rhetoric and logic in the Uni- versity of North Carolina, and in 1825 called to the Presbyterian church of Norfolk, Va., where he remained ten years. He then returned to New Jersey, and was for three years agent of the Board of domestic missions. He was successively pastor in Burlington, N. J., and Greenwich, N. J., till 1860, and in that year he removed to Philadelphia, where he preached to the benevolent institutions of the city until 1863. Princeton gave him the de- gree of D. D. in 1850. He contributed to the " Princeton Review," and published discourses and " Pastoral Reminiscences," translated into French and issued in Paris (New York, 1849).
KOLTES, John A., soldier, b. in Rhenish
Prussia in 1823 ; d. near Gainesville, Va., 30 Aug.,
1862. He came to this country in 1846, and served
throughout the Mexican war as orderly sergeant.
After its close he became an officer of the marine
corps, and was subsequently employed in the U. S.
mint in Philadelphia. At the opening of the civil
war he raised and commanded a regiment of Ger-
mans. He was killed at the battle of Gainesville,
Va. He had been acting brigadier-general in Gen.
Adolph Von Steinwehr's division for four months,
and his friends who had secured his promotion to
this rank were carrying his commission, when they
met his body as it was borne from the battle-field.
KONDIARONK, also known as the Rat, chief
of the Tionnontates Hurons, d. in Montreal, Canada,
2 Aug., 1701. He was considered by the French
of Canada the bravest and ablest Indian they had
ever met. He was constantly at war with the
French until 1688, when Denonville, the governor,
succeeded in making a treaty with him. In pursu-
ance of this treaty, Kondiaronk set out on 26 May,
at the head of 100 men, from Mackinaw to attack
the Iroquois. He took Catarocouy on the road,
and then learned that the French were negotiating
with the Iroquois tribes, and that the French
governor would not tolerate any hostility on the
part of the Hurons. Kondiaronk was surprised at
this change of affairs, but made no complaint, and
withdrew from the fort, pretending to go to his
village. He had learned, however, that Iroquois
deputies and hostages were on their way to Mon-
treal, and, after lying in wait for them several days
at Hungry bay, rushed on them with his kind,
killing twenty and taking the rest prisoners. His
intrigues after this exploit were marked by clever
diplomacy, and had the effect of involving the
French and the Iroquois in war, during the course
of which he baffled all Denonville's steps for
effecting peace. In 1689 he arranged a plan with
the Iroquois for exterminating the Ottawas, the
execution of which was prevented at the last mo-
ment by Nicolas Perrot, who learned of the plot
from an Aniez Indian. In 1690 he was instru-
mental in prevailing on the Ottawas to treat with
the Iroquois without the intervention of the
French. He afterward became a firm friend of
the French, and did them good service on many
occasions. In 1697 he landed at the head of Lake
Michigan with 150 warriors, and found that the
Iroquois were encamped at some distance to the
number of 250, but with canoes for only sixty. He
advanced to the spot, but immediately feigned
flight, and being pursued by sixty Iroquois in their
canoes, turned and routed them. He afterward
prevented the Hurons of Mackinaw from following
the Baron, one of their chiefs in the English inter-
est, to New York. He accompanied De la Motte
Cadillac to Montreal in the same year, where Fron-
tenac treated him with distinction. He took an
active part in bringing about the treaty between
the hostile tribes and the French in Montreal in
1700. Kondiaronk was at Montreal again in 1701.
and it was by his influence that De Callieres, the
governor, hoped to persuade the different tribes to
make a mutual interchange of prisoners and to
submit their differences in future to the French
governor. His death was a heavy blow to the
French interest. He was converted by Father de
Carheil, and was accustomed to say that the only
Frenchmen of talent he had met were De Carheil,
De Callieres, and Count Frontenac
KONSCHAK, Count Ferdinand, clergyman, b.
in Warasdin, Croatia, 2 Dec, 1703 ; d. in California
in 1760. He entered the Jesuit order, 22 Oct.. 1719,
and, after teaching in Buda, set out as a missionary
for Mexico, where he labored for several years.
He was at first superior of the mission of St. Igna-
tius in California, and afterward visitor of all the
Jesuit missions. His works that he published after
his arrival in Mexico are " Vida y muerte del P.
Antonio Tempis, Jesuita Misionero de Californias "
(Mexico, 1748); "Apostolicos Afanes de la Com-
pania de Jesus, etc." (Barcelona, 1754 ; Paris, 1767) ;
and " Historia de las Misiones de Californias, nom-
bradas: los Dolores del Norte, y la Magdalena,"
which remained in manuscript, but supplied Vene-
gas {q. v.) with nearly all the materials for his his-
tory of California. A narrative of Konschak's
addressed to the confessor of the viceroy of Naples,
dated Vera Cruz, 24 April, 1731, is in the 37th
volume of the " Weltbote " (Augsburg, 1728-'50).
KOQUETHAGACHTON, called by the English "White Eyes," Delaware chief, d. in Fort Laurens, Ohio, in November, 1778. He was appointed by Netawatwes, chief of the Turtle tribe, his first councillor, and on his death, in 1776, succeeded him. In Dunmore's war. as well as during the
Revolution, White Eyes strove strenuously to keep the Delawares neutral. Failing in this in the latter contest, he joined the Americans, and died when Mcintosh's expedition was about to move against the Sanduskv towns.
KOSCIUSZKO, Tadeusz (Thaddeus) (kos-se-us'-ko),
Polish patriot, b. near Novogrudek, Lithuania,
12 Feb., 1746; d. in Solothurn, Switzerland,