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99 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congressoH as a republican.
Kulp, John Stewart, army
founder, in Wilkes-
officer,
was bom March 8. 18tlU. He was e<lucated at Yale
autljor,
Pa.
unithe university of Pennsylvania, and and. has received the degrees of M.I), and Ph. L). During the Spanish-.Xmerican war he orpanirc<l and comuiandtHl a company of instruction at Manila, P.I.; organize<l Hospital three at Manila, P.r. and als<j coraniandcd the ambulance company of the first division, third army corps. He also organized and commanded company B. hospital wn'". I'nitcd States army, under the rank of captain. lie is a member of the leading patriotic societies a member of the as.sociation of miliUiry surgeons; and has filled various positions of trust and honor. He is the author of a number of monographs on medico-militury sub-
barre.
versity,
at the university of Iterlin
Kumler, jin'sident. 18.54. in
|)resident
Franklin
Abia Zellar, was liorn Oct. 20,
college,
phihinthropist,
In 1887-97 he was of the .val<in college of Trenton,
Hamilton.
(Jhio.
and since 1898 has been jiresident of the Knstern Indiana normal university at Muncie. In 189(1 he Ixiught two hundre<l acres of land near the city of Trenton, and sold suffi< i«'iit proiH'rty from the same to pay for land, build and equip a fine college building. This property, valued at fifty thousand
dollars, he presented to the united brethren
chun'h.
Kunkel, Charles, musician, composer, was July 22. 1840, in Germany. He came to when eight years of age with his
liorn
.merica
father
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Kunkel, Jacob M., lawyer, statu senator, was l>orn July 2:^, 1822. in
congressniiin.
Md. In 1850 he was elected to the .Maryland senate. In 1857-61 he was a repFrederick.
resentative from Maryland to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 180G. He died April 9, 1870. in Frederick,
Md. Kunkel, John Christian, law yer, congress-
was born Sept.
18. 1816, in HarrisIn 1855-59 he was a representative thirty-fourth and to the from Pennsylvania He died Oct. 14, thirty-fifth congresses. 1870, in Ilarrisburg, Pa. Kuntze, Edward J., sculptor, artist, was born in 1820 in Prussia. Among his works are statuettes of Shakt«speare, (loethe, In'ing, Tennyson, and Lincoln a statue of Psyche ; one of Columbia Puck Puck on Horseback ; and Puck on the >Varpath a bust of Mirth; •Merlin and Vivien, in has relief; and many nuHhillion portraits and busts. He died April 10. 1870, in New York city. Kunz, George Frederick, geologist, author, was born Sept. 29, 1850, in New York city. He was educated in the public schools and
luan.
burg, Pa.
jects.
Mo.
In 1888-1904 Illinois Wesleyan university. and he was trustee of Walden university in 1897-1900 was chancellor of the Illinois Wesleyan university. In 1898-1901 he was proprietor of the Springfield News in Illinois. Since 1904 he has been president of the Walden university. He has gained suci-ess in building churches, and in raising money (o relieve embarrassed churches; and to build and endow by money and business methods, sclKKds and c-ollegt*s.
the
He was
one
of
L.
M.
and
Sigis-
Thalbcrg. Since be has been prominently connected the terests of
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(iottschalk
Mo.
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In
in-
St.
Ixiuis,
ISH8 he gave of concerts
brother,
the
late
Jacob Kunkel. He is a musician of note and has written hundreds of <-omiK>sitions. He
at
Cooper Union of
New York
city.
He
is
gem expert of Tiffany and company and curator of gems ot the American museum of natural history. In 1889 he was in charge of the department of mines at the Paris exposition; in 1893 was in charge at the World's Columbian exposition in 1892 at the Kimberley exposition in 1895 at the Atlanta exposition in I85»8 at the Omaha exposition; and in 1892-98 on special investigations on .Vmerican pearls. He is special agent in the I'nited States geoh)gicnl survey and is jtresident of the New York mineralogical club. <iems atitlior of He is the and Precious Stones of North America and Pearls, in two volumes.
a
large publishing house of and editor of Kunkel's Heview. .mong his piano solos is Aljtine Storm. He is the composer and i>ubiisher of Kiinkel s K<lectria Graded Course
Kunze, John Christopher, clergyman, author, was born .Vug. 4. 1744. in Saxony. He was pnjfessor of ancient languages in Columbia <-ollege. He was the author of History of the Christian Religion and of the Lutheran Church ami ('atechism and Lib-
of Studies for the Piono.
erty.
is
St.
president of a Louis. Mo.,
M usii'itl
Kumler, John
edumtor, lawyer, clergyniiin. ••olieKe jiresident. was lM)rn .Vpril 20. 18:{8. in Butler county, Ohio. For six years he practiced law at Diinville. III.; and in 180«-(57 WHS «ity attorney. In 1870 he was ordained to the ministry; and in 1875-97 was conference visitor and trustee of the A.,
He
died July 24.
1807. in
New York
city.
Kunze, Richard Ernest, physician, naturauthor, was l)orn April 7, 18.38, in (Jcrmany. In IH08 he graduated from the Kclectic medical coMege of New York city. He was a physician of New York city; and president of the New York Therapeutical alist,
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