Central Hospital, at Lakeland; Western Hospital, at Hopkinsville; and the Feeble-minded Institute, at Frankfort. Among the colleges and universities the most noted are Central University at Richmond, Berea College at Berea, Kentucky University at Lexington, Georgetown College at Georgetown, Center College at Danville, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky at Lexington. Among the women's colleges are Potter College at Bowling Green, Hamilton Female College at Lexington, Caldwell College at Danville, and Jessamine Female Institute at Nicholasville.
Churches.—The strongest denominations in the State are the Regular Baptist, S.; Roman Catholic; Methodist Episcopal, S.; Disciples of Christ; Regular Baptist, colored; Methodist Episcopal; African Methodist; and Presbyterian, S.
State Government.—The governor is elected for a term of four years. Legislative sessions are held biennially, and are limited to 60 days each. The Legislature has 38 members in the Senate and 100 in the House. There are 11 representatives in Congress.
History.—With the earliest history of Kentucky is associated the name of Daniel Boone, whose exploits in hunting and Indian fighting in the then distant and unexplored wilderness dates as far back as 1769. He founded Boonesborough in 1775, and Harrodsburg being settled about the same time, these two towns are, with the exception of the French settlements, the oldest in the W. Soon after Kentucky was made a county of Virginia, and the first court held at Harrodsburg in 1777. In 1790 Kentucky became a separate territory, and in 1792 was admitted into the Union. Since then, with the exception of the interruption occasioned by the Civil War, its progress has been very rapid.
KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS, a series of nine resolutions introduced into the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, by George Nicholas, though it was afterward known that Thomas Jefferson was the author of them. They were directed against the Alien and Sedition laws, and against acts passed to punish frauds on the Bank of the United States, and emphasized the rights of the several States. Another resolution was added in 1799.
KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution in Lexington, Ky.; founded in 1858 under the auspices of the Christian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 114, students, 1056; volumes in the library, 37,000; income, $440,727; president, Frank LeRand McVey, Ph.D., LL.D.
KENYA COLONY. See British East Africa.
KENYA PROTECTORATE, the name given to the dominion on the coast of Africa under the nominal sovereignty of the Sultan of Zanzibar. See Zanzibar.
KENYON, SIR FREDERIC GEORGE, Librarian in British Museum. He was born in London in 1863 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He became assistant in the British Museum in 1889 and later keeper of MSS. He has had many honors from universities. His works include: “Aristotle's Constitution of Athens”; “Classical Texts from Papyri”; “Hyperides”; “Catalogue of Greek Papyri”; “Brownings for the Young”; “Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts”; “Facsimiles of Biblical MSS.”; “Handbook to Textual Criticism of the New Testament.”
KENYON COLLEGE, an educational institution in Gambier, O.; founded in 1824 under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 15; students, 164; volumes in the library, 32,000; president. Rev. W. F. Pierce, M.A., LL.D.
KENYON, WILLIAM SQUIRE, United States Senator from Iowa, born in Elyria, Ohio, in 1869. He was educated at Iowa College and studied law at the State University of Iowa. He was prosecuting attorney for five years and for two years was district judge of the eleventh judicial district. From 1910 to 1911 he was assistant to the Attorney-General of the United States. He was elected Senator in 1911. He was re-elected in 1913 and in 1918. Senator Kenyon was identified with the Liberal wing of the Republican Party and was active in the passage of liberal and progressive measures. He was chairman of the Senate Committee appointed to investigate coal strikes in 1919 and was also chairman of the committee to investigate campaign expenses in 1920.
KEOKUK, a city in Lee co., Ia.; near the confluence of the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers and on the Burlington Route, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, and other important railroads; 46 miles S. of Burlington. The city lies at the foot of the lower rapids, which are skirted by a ship canal 11 miles long, constructed by the Federal government. In 1913 there was put in operation, by the construction of a great dam, one of
