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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 271

Kxtate Htovc

the Lunjjwit/.

i-oniiiaiiy:

vicc-|»ro»iil»'iit

of

rt'thiction ((tiiipaiiy; vi«v-pr('i*-

vurioun otiier corporahe wan preHiiU>nt of the National asswiatioii of stove inaniifaetiir ers; uml in 1SS!»-1!MM» was u juror at the iilent iiikI <lireetor in

tions.

In

18«jr»-07

expositions. Kahn, Lee, jihy»»ieian. inventor,

I'ari.H

•July

lS(i7.

ill

.Morris<»n,

III.

1721, in Germany. 1777. and congress

S.C.

Kalbfleisch, Martin, manufacturer, chemct»ngressman. was b«»rn Feb. 8, 1804, in Holland. In 1842 he foun<le«l a chemical factory at (Jreenport. L.I. In 1832 he was health warden of New York; in 18.36 was a school trustee; and in 18.'>2-,'}4 was supervisor of Hrunswick. In I8.V» 61 he was an alderman of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and in 1801-02 and 1807-08 was mayor of that city. In 1803-0,'> ho was a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress. He died Feb. 12, 1873, in Urooklvn,

N.Y.

James March 10,

Kalor, hoiii

He

is

Otis, j<>urnalist, author, was 1848. in Winterport, Maine.

the author of

The Boy Captain; Under the Liberty Tree; A Slmrt Cruise; The Bovs' Rev<dt; Toby Tyi.'r; Left Behind': .Mr. Stubb's Bn.ther; T<un and Tip; Raising the Pearl; Silent Pete; The Castaways Little Joe; Stories of American Historv; Jerry's Family; .Jenny NVren's Boarding

.ludith.

Kain, John Joseph, clergvinan, archbishop,

was born May 31, 1841. in Martinsburg. W.Va. In l'<75 he was consecrated Homan catholic bishop of Wheeling; in 1803 he became coadjutor archbishop of St. Louis; and was nia<le archbishop in 189(5. He died Oct. 13. 1903, in St. Louis. Mo. Kaiser, Mark, musician, composer, was born Feb. 22, IS.Vi. in New Orleans. La. He was educate<l at the Paris conservatory and as a solo player

attained prominence in that city. During lS7(»-78

the

he* trivi'U'd I'nited States

and Canada, as violin scdoist, with artists under managethe

ment osch

of

also

f.ir

Max

Strak-

and Henry Ma-

pleson.

He has

at-

tained great prominence in the musical world; and is noted his success as a teacher and con-

cert violinist of

New

371 to

ist.

was liorn He was an

inventor of the instrument ealled l>-e Kahn Applicator aii<l Injector, now witlely used by many liospitals. He died Feh. 2«. iSilS. Kahn, Max, pliysician. surgeon and author of |(l.'»r» Hoe ave.. New York City, was horn March 17. IS87. He graduated fn»ni t'ormdl tjniversitv and has receive<l the degrees of M.I).. M.A.. and Ph.D. He is director of the chemical and physiological lahoratories of the Reth Israel hospital of New York fity; and associat*' in hi(dogical chemistry in Columhia university. He is the author of Moliere and The Physician; Shak<-speare's Knowledire of Medicine; History of the Lithotomy Operation; Kanibam, the Physician, and nnineroiis other medical w(uks. Kahn, Mrs. Ruth Ward, lecturer, authnr, WHS born Aug. 4. 1870, in Jackson. .Mich. She is till' author of three volumes of poems entitled (Jcrtrude; The First Quarter; and Tales of Spain; a novel. The Story of

in

He came

America in commissioned him a major-general. He clieil Aug. 10, 1780, of wounds received at the battle of Camden, 10,

Orleans. La.

Jonah Kuhio, capitalist, congressman, was born March 2t!, 1871, in Hawaii. He was educated in Hoii<dulu. the Cnited States and England. He was employed in the ollice of the minister of the interior, and in the custom house under the monarchy. In I!l03-lo he was a re|)resenKalanianaole,

tative Iroin Hawaii to the lifty-eightli. tifty-ninth. sixtieth, sixty-lirst. sixty-second

ami sixty-third congresses as a republican. Kalb, Johann De, soldier, was born July

House; Teddy and Carrots; Across the Delaware; The Bragan7ji Diamond; When Israel Putnam Served the King; The Charming Sally: and The Wreck of the Circus. Kales, Albert Martin, lawyer, author, was .Manli II, 1S7'», in Chicago, III. Since

Itoin

1901 he has been in the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.;

teaching school. <'mf)tion

and

111.;

force

of

is

the

connected with Northwestern

He is the author Laws of Illinois.

of

the

law

Homestead Kx-

Isidor, clergyman, author, was Nov. 1.5, 1810, in Prussia. He was «if congregations in Cleveland. Milwaukee and i'lsewhere. He was the author of Sketch of the Talniu«l; and several translations from tlu" Cerman and Hebrew. He

Kalisch,

born

rabbi

.lied

May

II.

1880. in

Newark. N.J.

Kalopothakes, Martha Hooper, missionary, journalist, (rausl.itor. was born June 1, 18.30, in .Marbleheail. Mass. She labored as a missionary: an<l eercise

founilers

and editors of the Moravian

at Lancaster. Pa.; and in l8."i.">-,»8 president of the Thecdogical seminary. He was one of the compilers of the Moravian Hym-