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NAME KILPATRICK 656 KIMBALL in 1875 and 1876; on fishery matters, in the "Reports and Bulletins of the Fish Commis- sion" subsequent to 1883; and on chemistry and physics in the publications of various scientific societies. He died suddenly from pneumonia in his forty-seventh year. Charles A. Pfender. Bull. Philos. Soc, Washington, 1892, vol. xi. Minutes Med. Soc, D. C, Apr. 17, 1889. Nat. Med. Biog., Phila., 1890. Bull. Philosophical Soc, D. C, 1892, vol. xi. Kilpatrick, Andrew Robert (1817-1887) Andrew Robert Kilpatrick, a surgeon of Texas, the son of the Rev. James Hall and Sarah Tanner Kilpatrick, was born March 24, 1817, near Chaneyville, Rapides, Louisiana. He first attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College and the Georgia Medical College, tak- ing his M. D. from the latter in 1837. He practised in three or four places and finally settled in Navasota, Texas. When only nine- teen he proved himself an able obstetrician and in 1868 was professor of anatomy in Texas Medical College. His chief writings were on the subject of epidemics: "The History of Epidemic Yellow Fever in Woodville, Mississippi," 1844; "Chol- era in Louisiana," 1849; "Yellow Fever in Louisiana," 1855 ; "Yellow Fever in Texas," 1867. He was also associate editor of the Southern Medical Record and the Texas Med- ical Journal. He married three times; his last wife, whom he married in 1854, being Mary M., daughter of Joel T. Tucker of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Daniel's Texas Med. Jour., Austin, 1887-8, vol. ill. Kilty, William (1758-1821) This Maryland army surgeon, who united in himself the two professions of medicine and law, was born in London in 1758, and re- ceived his literary education at St. Omar's Col- lege in France. He studied medicine with Dr. Edward Johnson, of Annapolis, and in April, 1778, proceeded to Wilmington, Delaware, where he retained the appointment of sur- geon's mate in the Fourth Maryland Regiment (Laffell and Scarff). He was appointed sur- geon of the regiment. He was captured at the Battle of Camden, and in the Spring of 1781 returned to Annapolis, where he remained un- til the close of the war, owing to his failure to obtain an exchange. He then studied law. In 1798 he was authorized by act of Legis- lature to compile the statistics of the state, and in compliance with this he prepared and published, in 1800, the two volumes known as "Kilty's Laws." He settled in Washington the same year, and in 1801 was appointed by President Adams, chief judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. Some time after this he returned to Maryland and was appointed by the governor, chancellor of that state in 1806. In 1818, by authority of the Legislature, he published, with Harris and Watkins, a con- tinuation of Kilty's Laws. He died at An- napolis, October 10, 1821. Kilty seems to have been a man of quiet, unassuming life, and his greatest interest was no doubt in his professional and judicial work. At the same time he was very patriotic and took a deep interest in the welfare of his state and countr'. His most important work was his "Report on the British Statutes in Force in Maryland." Kilty was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Mr. Allen McSherry, a great-great nephew, has a portrait of him made during the Revolution. Eugene F. Cordell. The High Court of Chancery and the Chancellors cif Maryland, by Wm. L. Marbury, LL.D.; Pro- ceedings of Maryland Bar Association. Old Maryland, May, 1906, vol. ii, p, 5. Kimball, Gilman (1804-1892) A pioneer ovariotomist, he was born at New Chester (now Hill), New Hampshire, on De- cember 8, 1804, the son of Ebenezer and Polly Kimball, and after education in the schools of his native town began to study medicine at Dartmouth College, where he took his M. D. in 1827, starting practice the next year in the town of Chicopee, Massachusetts. Two years in a small town taught him his limitations and, aspiring to be something more than mediocre in surgery, he spent one year under Auguste Berard and Dupuytren at Paris. Then followed sixty-one years of service to suffering humanity in Lowell, Massa- chusetts, particularly when chosen surgeon to a hospital erected by mill owners for their op- eratives. In 1842 he succeeded Willard Parker as professor of surgery at Woodstock, Ver- mont, and held the same chair in the Berk- shire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Massa- chusetts. At the breaking out of the war he accompanied Gen. Butler to Annapolis and Fortress Monroe, first as brigade surgeon then as medical director, and helped greatly in organ- izing the hospitals until, twice prostrated by malaria, he had to resign. As early as 1855 he operated for the removal of ovarian tumors, a proceeding then still regarded as too daring by most surgeons. In New England, outside Boston, it had hardly