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and company, the founder being presidenl und controlling owner, lie died in 1!)04 in Ciiicngo,

111.

Kimbark, Seneca Du Bois, merehiint, man was born March 4, 1832, in N'en-

ufacturer, ice,

N.Y.

He mudu Chicago

the distributing center of heavy har<lware in the west, and the exporter of quantities of large thin

merchandise to the South

Australia,

American

republics*

and Mexico, In Chicago the business oce u p i e 8 a six-story warehouse; and as an a«ljunct opto its erations a factory is maintained in KlkHe held numerous positions of hart, Ind. trust and honor. Kimber, Arthur Clifiord, clergyman, author, was born Nov. H, 1844, in New Hamburg. N.Y. .Since 1872 he has been vicar of St. Augustine's church of Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the author of Fifty Hymns; The Litth' Hymnal; an«l How to Manage a Class. Kimberly, Lewis Ashfield, naval ollicer, was born April 2, 1830. in Troy, N.Y. He was appointed a midshipman in the navy from Illinois in IK4U; and was commissioned rear-admiral in 1887. He retired from the navy in 18J»2. His mother, Mrs. Maria T. Kimberly, died Dec. 23. 18!K», in Chicago, 111., of which city she was tuie of the pioneers. He died Jan. 28, 1002, in West New-

number of the Oregon State Journal

llrst

1804.

in

Kincaid, John, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1791, near Danville, Ky. He was repeatedly electe<l to the Kentucky state legislature; and was commonwealth's attorney. In 1829-31 he was a representative from Kentucky to the twenty-lirst congress. He died F»'b. 7, 1873, in Danville,

Ky. Kindel, George John, merchant, congressman, was horn March 2, 18;>.'), in ('incinnati, Ohio. He is engaged in the nuittresa and upholstery business. In 1913- 1.> he was a

member

of the sixty-third congress. Kindle, Edward Martin, educator, geolo-

was born March 10. 1809. Franklin, Ind.; and since 1901 has assistant geologist in the United States geological survey, He was paleontologist of the Cornell ex[M-dition to Greenlainl which accompanied Peary's expedition in 1890; and also spent two summers in .Alaska in connection with his professional scientist,

gist,

near

iH'cn

work. Kindleberger,

David, naval

Washington,

IS34.

in

ton, Mass.

Kimberly, Robert Lewis, sohlier, was born in Connecticut. In 18til he was second lieutenant in the forty-lirst regiment Ohio infantry; and in I8(5."» attained the rank of hrigadi«'r -general. He was honorably mustered out in 18(5."». Kimbrough, Bradley Thomas, lawyer, banker, was born Nov. 30, l84(i, in JclVerson county, Tenn. In 1872-73 he was a

member

of the Mississippi legislature; and in 1884-!»7 was chancellor of the second and third districts of Mississippi. He is president of the Oxford t»il mill company; president of the Merchants' and farmers' bank of Oxford; and director of several corporatilMIS.

Kimmell, William, agriculturist, state congressman, was l>orn in Baltimore. Md. He was a state senator I8(»(J-71; and in 1877-81 he was u repres<'ntative from .Maryland to the forty-fiftli and forty-sixth senator,

congresses.

He

<lied

Dec. 28, 1880, in' Mary-

land.

Kincaid, Harrison Rittenhouse, journalist, publishrr. pioneer, was born .Ian. 3, 18.'UJ, in Madison county. Ind. In 18ll8-7n he was a ch'rk in the I'nited States s«'nate; and in I81»."i-Jl!> was secretary of state of Oregon, and also state auditor. He is.sued the

oflicer,

navy

D.C., was born Sept. 2, Smithville, Ohio. In 18.57 he received the degree of A.R. from WiU^berg college ol Springfield, Ohio; in 1859 he entered the I'nited States naval service; and as assistant surgeon was

dept.,

advanced

through

various medical

grades

to

director to the rank of captain. In 1906 he was retired on acc<nint of the age limit; and advanced to the rank 1859-01 retired. he of rear-admiral In served on the .African coast on the I'nited States ship San .lacinto; and participated in all the battles of Admiral Farragiitt's s(iua«lron in the civil war except Vicksburg. In 1887-80 he was French surgeon in the Asiatic squadron; in 1882 was on the south Pacific squadron and in 1802-90 commanded tln' United States navy hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. Kindred, John Joseph, physician, founder,

was

Ixirn .luly

l."».

1804, in

South Hampton

county, *a. He was educated in SulFoIk military academy, the Handolph-Macon college, the tiniversity of Virginia, the university of New A'ork medical ilepartment; in I8S9 gra<luated from the hospital college of me<licine with the degrw of M.D.; and then took special courses at the university of Kdinburgh. Scotland. He is physician in charge and proprietor of the Darien home

mental and nervous diseases and of Dr. Kindred's sanitarium at Hartford. Conn. He the founder and proprietor of the River

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