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516 congress as a Democrat, serving from October, 1877, until March, 1883, and had been re-elected when he was elected U. S. senator to succeed Henry G. Davis, and took his seat in December.

KENNADAY, John, clergyman, b. in New York city, 3 Nov., 1800 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 13 Nov., 1863. He was apprenticed in early life to a printer, but devoted his leisure moments to the study of law. He entered the ministry in the Methodist church, and during forty years of clerical life filled pulpits in the New York. Philadelphia, and New York East annual conferences. He was a member of two general conferences, and at the time of his death was presiding elder of Long Isl- and district. " In the pulpit," said Bishop Janes, " he was clear in the statement of his subject, abun- dant and most felicitous in his illustrations, and pathetic and impressive in his applications. His oratory was of a high order."

KENNAN, George, traveller, b. in Norwalk, Huron co., Ohio, 16 Feb., 1845. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and in 1862 attended the Columbus, Ohio, high-school while working at night as a telegraph-operator. In 1864 he was assistant chief operator in the tele- graph-office at Cincinnati, and in December of the same year went to Kamtchatka by way of Nicara- gua, California, and the north Pacific. As a leader of one of the Russo-American telegraph company's exploring parties in northeastern Siberia in 1865-'6, and as superintendent of construction for the mid- dle district of the Siberian division from 1866 till 1868, he explored and located a route for the Russo- American telegraph-line between the Okhotsk sea and Bering strait, spending nearly three years in constant travel in the interior of northeastern Si- beria, and returning to the United States on the abandonment of the enterprise in 1868. In 1870 he went again to Russia to explore the mountains of the eastern Caucasus, proceeded down the Volga river to the Caspian sea, made extensive explora- tions on horseback in Daghestan and Chechnia, crossing the great range of the Caucasus three times in different places, and in 1871 returned to this country. In 1885-'6 he made a journey of 15,000 miles through northern Russia and Siberia for the purpose of investigating the Russian exile system, visited all the convict-prisons and mines between the Ural mountains and the head-waters of the Amur river, and explored the wildest part of the Russian Altai. Mr. Kennan has arranged (1887) for the publication of a series of magazine articles on Siberia and the exile system, which will ultimately be issued in book-form. He is also the author of " Tent Life in Siberia and Adventures among the Koraks and other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia " (New York, 1870).

KENNEDY, Alfred L., physician, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 25 Oct., 1818. He was educated in his native city, studied civil and mining engineer- ing and also medicine, being graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1848, then studied physi- ology and physiological chemistry in Paris and Leipsic, and. geology and botany in Paris. Re- turning to Philadelphia, he began the practice of medicine in 1853, but in 1865 retired and settled in Montgomery co., Pa. He was made assistant professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania medi- cal college in 1839, lecturer on chemical physics in 1840, and on general and medical botany and medi- cal jurisprudence and toxicology in 1842. He was also appointed lecturer on medical chemistry in the Philadelphia school of medicine in 1843, and on industrial botany in 1849 and agricultural chemistry in 1852 in the Franklin institute in the same city. In 1849 he was elected professor of medical chemistry in the Philadelphia college of medicine. In 1842 he had established the Phila- delphia school of chemistry, and remained at its head until 1853. when it became under a new char- ter the Polytechnic college of the state of Penn- sylvania. He was then chosen its president. He was vice-president of the American agricultural congress in 1876, and the same year held the same Sost in the Pennsylvania agricultural society, •uring the war he acted as a volunteer surgeon of the 2d army corps in the Gettysburg hospital, and in 1863 was commissioned colonel of volunteer en- gineers. Dr. Kennedy has published " Practical Chemistry a Branch of Medical Education, etc." (Philadelphia, 1852).

KENNEDY, Archibald, publicist, b. in Scot- land ; d. in New York in 1763. He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Kennedy, second son of the third Earl of Cassilis, in the peerage of Scotland. Coming to this country, he was made collector of customs at the port of New York, and was also a member of the provincial council in 1750. He ad- vocated parliamentary taxation, and publicly urged on the ministry that " liberty and encouragement are the basis of colonies." " To supply ourselves with manufactures," he insisted, " is practicable ; and where people in such circumstances are nu- merous and free, they will push what they think is for their interest, and all restraining laws will be thought oppression, especially such laws as, ac- cording to the conceptions we have of English liberty, they have no hand in controverting or making. They cannot be kept dependent by keep- ing them poor." He at one time acted as receiver- general of the province. Kennedy published " Importance of the Northern Colonies " (New York, 1749) and " Present State of Affairs in the Northern Colonies" (1754).

KENNEDY, Crammond, lawyer, b. in North Berwick, Scotland, 29 Dec, 1842. After attending school in his native country, he came to New York in 1856, and in 1857-60 delivered addresses on re- ligious subjects to large audiences. in that city and elsewhere, being widely known as " the boy preach- er." He studied in Madison university in 1861— '3, and in the latter year was ordained as chaplain of the 79th New York regiment, the " Highlanders." He was brevetted major for services in east Ten- nessee and the Wilderness, lectured in England and Scotland on the civil war in 1864-'5, and in 1865-'7 was connected with the Freedmen's com- mission. He became editor and proprietor of the "Church Union " in 1869, and in that year was as- sociated with Henry Ward Beecher in establishing the " Christian Union," of which he became man- aging editor in 1870. He then studied law, was graduated at Columbia law-school in 1878, and has since practised his prof ession in New York and in Washington, D. C. He has published " James Stanley," a prize Sunday-school book, issued anony- mously (Nashville, Tenn., 1859) ; " Corn in the Blade," poems (New York, 1860) ; " Close Com- munion or Open Communion ? " (1869) ; and a prize essay on " The Liberty of the Press " (1876).

KENNEDY, John Alexander, superintendent of police, b. in Baltimore, Md., 9 Aug., 1803 : d. in New York city, 20 June, 1873. His father was a native of the north of Ireland, and had been for many years a teacher in Baltimore. The son received a good education, and while still young removed to New York city and began business with his brother. In 1849 he was appointed a commissioner of emigration, and in 1854 he was elected a member of the common council. Subsequently he