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494  views of the country from Lake Superior to Vancouver's island. Mr. Kane is the author of &ldquo;Wanderings of an Artist&rdquo; (London, 1858).

KANNEGIESER, Sigismund (kan-na-ge-zer), German explorer, b. in Freiberg in 1706; d. in Ratisbon in 1759. He studied in Vienna, and was appointed a clerk in the state department in 1728, but soon resigned his post to follow his tastes for adventure and science. He travelled in North and South America and the West Indies for fifteen years, and was offered the appointment of professor of history in the College of Santiago, Chili, but refused it, and, returning in 1744, settled in Ratisbon. He published &ldquo;Briefe aus Süd-Amerika&rdquo; (Ratisbon, 1746); &ldquo;Menschen und Länder&rdquo; (1747); &ldquo;Tagebuch der Reisen&rdquo; (Stuttgart, 1749); &ldquo;Reisen im südlichen Amerika&rdquo; (3 vols., Leipsic, 1750); &ldquo;Neueste Reisen durch Louisiana&rdquo; (2 vols., Ratisbon, 1751); &ldquo;Das Leben der Incas Prinzen von Peru&rdquo; (3 vols., Vienna, 1755); and &ldquo;Ansichten über die Peruanischen Alterthümer und Peru überhaupt&rdquo; (3 vols., Ratisbon, 1758).

KAPP, Friedrich, German author, b. in Hamm, Prussia, 13 April, 1824; d. in Berlin, 27 Oct., 1884. He was at the University of Heidelberg from 1842-'5, and studied law in Berlin, practising his profession in Hamm and Unna till 1848, when he removed to Frankfort-on-the-Main. He then spent some time in Belgium and Paris, and translated two works of Alexander Herzen, who entrusted him with the charge of his son. In 1850 he came to New York, where he practised law till 1870. In 1860 he was a presidential elector, and in 1867 he was appointed commissary of emigration, which office he held till his return to Germany in 1870. In 1871 he became a member of the German diet. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Bonn on 4 Aug., 1868. He was the author of &ldquo;The Slave Question in the United States&rdquo; (Göttingen, 1854); &ldquo;Life of the American General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben&rdquo; (Berlin, 1858; New York, 1859); &ldquo;History of Slavery in the United States of America&rdquo; (New York, 1858); &ldquo;The Trading in Soldiers of the German Princes with America, 1775-'83&rdquo; (Berlin, 1864); &ldquo;A History of the German Migration into America&rdquo; (New York, 1867); &ldquo;On Immigration and the Commission of Emigration&rdquo; (1870); &ldquo;Life of the American General Johann Kalb&rdquo; (Stuttgart, 1862; New York, 1870); and &ldquo;Frederick the Great and the United States&rdquo; (Berlin, 1871). At the time of his death he was engaged in writing a history of the German book-trade, which was subsequently published (1886).

KASSON, John Adams, lawyer, b. near Bur- lington, Vt., 11 Jan., 1822. After graduation in the University of Vermont in 1842, he studied law in Massachusetts, and was admitted to the bar. He practised law in St. Louis, Mo., until 1857, when he removed to Des Moines. Iowa. He was chairman of the Republican state committee from 1858-60. when he was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln first assistant postmaster-general, which office he resigned in 1862, and was elected to congress as a Republican, serving from 1863-7. He was U. S. postal commissioner to Paris in 1863, and again in 1867, when he negotiated postal conventions with Great Britain and other nations. He was a member of the Iowa house of representatives from 1868-'73, when he was again elected to congress, serving from 1 Dec, 1873, till 3 March, 1877. He was appointed U. S. minister to Austria in 1877, having first ieclined the mission to Spain, and remained in Vienna until 1881, when he was again elected to congress, serving from 4 March. 1881, till his ap- pointment on 4 July, 1884, as minister to Germany, where he was succeeded in 1885 by George II. Pen- dleton. He was president of the committee on the centennial celebration of the adoption of the con- stitution, held in Philadelphia in September, 1887.

KATTE, Walter, civil engineer, b. in London, England, 14 Nov., 1830. He was educated at King's college school, and in 1846-'9 served his pupilage in a civil engineer's office. He came to the United States in 1850, entered the American railway service, and in 1857-'8 was resident engineer of the state canals of Pennsylvania. He was resi- dent engineer of the western division of the Pitts- burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad in 1858-9, and in 1859-'61 chief assistant engineer of the Pitts- burg and Steubenville railroad. In 1861-'2 he was connected with the U. S. military railway ser- vice in Washington, Virginia, and Maryland, and in 1863 he became chief engineer of the Lewiston branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, and in 1863-'5 resident engineer and engineer of bridges and buildings on the Northern Central railroad. Mr. Katte held in 1865-'75 the offices of engineer, sec- retary, and general western agent of the Keystone bridge company of Pittsburg, closing this service as superintending engineer of the erection of the St. Louis steel arch bridge. After two years in St. Louis he came to New York as chief engineer of the New York elevated railroad, which office he held in 1877-'80, and in 1880-'6 he was chief en- gineer of the New York, West Shore, and Buffalo railroad and its branches, and of the North river construction company. In 1886 he became chief engineer of the New York Central and Hudson river, New York and Harlem, and West Shore rail- roads with their branches. Mr. Katte is a member of various societies of civil engineers.

KAUFMAN, David Spangler, lawyer, b. in Boiling Springs, Cumberland co., Pa., 18 Dec, 1813 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 13 Jan., 1851. He was graduated at Princeton in 1833, and studied law in Natchez, Miss. In 1835 he began practice in Natchitoches, La., but removed to Nacogdoches, Tex., in 1837. He served as a volunteer against the Indians, and was a member of the Texas house of representatives from 1839-'43, when he became a member of the state senate, serving till 1845. In 1844 he presented a report in favor of annex- ation, and took an active part in its consummation. In 1845 he was appointed charge d'affaires in the United States, but that office was superseded by the act of annexation, and he was elected one of the first members of congress from Texas, serving from 1846 till his death, which took place suddenly.

KAUFMAN, Theodore, artist, b. in Nelsen, Hanover, 18 Dec., 1814. He served for several years as a mercantile apprentice, and studied painting in Hamburg and Munich. He took part in the revolution at Dresden in 1848, came to this country in 1855, and fought in the National army during the civil war. Subsequently he resided in Boston. His works include &ldquo;Gen. Sherman near the Watchfire,&rdquo; &ldquo;On to Liberty,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Pacific Railway Train attacked by Indians,&rdquo; &ldquo;Slaves seeking Shelter under the Flag of the Union,&rdquo; &ldquo;Admiral Farragut entering Harbor through Torpedoes,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Farragut in the Rigging.&rdquo;

KAULBACH, Henry Adolphus Newman, Canadian senator, b. in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1830. He was educated at the grammar-school of his native town, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1855. He afterward was graduated at the Harvard law-school in 1857.