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518 of Gen. Washington. He was educated at Alle- ghany college, studied law, and before coming of age established and edited the Crawford, Pa., "Messenger" and the Venango, Pa., "Intelli- gencer." In 1849 he was appointed by President Taylor secretary of a board to prepare a plan for taking the seventh and future U. S. censuses. In 1857 he was appointed by President Buchanan to complete the census of 1850, and in 1859 was made superintendent of the 8th census, continuing the. work until the failure of the appropriation in 1863. In 1850 he visited Europe on business that was connected with the census, with a special view of securing uniformity in the statistics of all nations, and also uniform cheap postage. In common with M. Guizot, Michael Chevalier, and Herr Quitelet, the Prussian astronomer royal, he was active in organizing the first statistical congress, which met at Brussels in 1853. He was secretary of the IT. S. commissioners to the World's Pair in London in 1851, a member of the statistical congresses of 1855 and 1860, and a commissioner to the London exhibition of 1862. In 1865-6 he acted as exam- iner of national banks under the comptroller of the currency. He received a gold medal from King Christian IX. of Denmark for his labors as a stat- istician, and was elected a member of different American, French, German, and Belgian learned societies. He received the degree of LL. D. from Alleghany college, and endowed that institution with four perpetual scholarships for the benefit of disabled young soldiers, or the orphans of soldiers.

KENNEDY, Josiah Forrest, physician, b. in Oak Grove, Perry co., Pa., 31 Jan., 1834. He was graduated at Dickinson college in 1855, and subse- quently at Jefferson medical college, and at the medical department of the University of the city of New York. He removed to Iowa, and was an army surgeon in 1861, but resigned, and removed in 1870 to Des Moines, Iowa. In 1869 he was elected professor of obstetrics in the Iowa state university, but resigned the following year, and now occupies the same chair in the Iowa college of p>hysicians and surgeons at Des Moines. He is secretary of the Iowa state board of health and of the Iowa state board of medical examiners. Dr. Kennedy is the editor of the " Iowa Health Bulletin," and has edited and compiled the third and fourth biennial reports of the state board of health (1883-'5). He has also contributed to pro- fessional periodical literature.

KENNEDY, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Scotland in 1720 ; d. in Basking Ridge, N. J., 31 Aug., 1787. He was graduated at the University of Edinburgh, came to this country, and, after studying theology, was called in 1751 to be pastor of the Presbyterian church at Basking Ridge, where he remained until his death. During a meeting of the synod of New York and Philadelphia in May, 1760, attention was called to the case of Rev. Will- iam McClenachan, a clergyman of the Church of England in Philadelphia, who had aroused enmity in his denomination by some display of religious zeal. Several members of the synod, including Mr. Kennedy, addressed a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to retain McClenachan in his pastorate, which he seemed in danger of losing. To this letter the archbishop paid no at- tention, and, the affair soon becoming public, the missive found its way into print and was severely criticised. During the next meeting of the synod it was sold in the streets of Philadelphia with the proclamation, " Eighteen Presbyterian ministers for a groat." Mr. Kennedy added to his labors as pastor those of teacher and medical practitioner. KENNEDY, William, author, b. near Paisley, Scotland, 26 Dec, 1799 ; d. near London, England, in 1849. Before he was twenty-five he published a prose story called " My Early Days " (London), and in 1827 followed it with a volume of short poems under the title of " Fitful Fancies," which met with unusual success. He was the personal friend and literary partner of William Motherwell, and in 1828-'9 was associated with the latter in the management of the " Paisley Magazine," in which many of the poems of the two authors ap- peared. Not proving a pecuniary success, its pub- lication was soon abandoned. Kennedy's third volume was " The Arrow and the Rose ; with Other Poems " (London, 1830), and he then settled down to a literary life in the English metropolis. When the Earl of Durham went to Canada, Ken- nedy accompanied him as private secretary, and on the former's return to England received the appointment of British consul at Galveston, Tex., where he resided many years, going back to Eng- land in 1847, and retiring on a pension. Besides the works already mentioned, Mr. Kennedy pub- lished " The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas " (2 vols., London, 1841), and an abridgment of the same entitled " Texas, its Geography, Natural History, and Topography" (New York, 1844). See Wilson's " Poets and Poet- ry of Scotland " (New York and London, 1876).

KENNEDY, William Megee, clergyman, b. Srobably in North Carolina, 10 Jan., 1773 ; d. in ewberry district, S. C, 22 Feb.. 1840. nis father lost nearly the whole of his estate in the Revolu- tion, and the son's early education was limited. He entered the ministry of the Methodist church in 1805, and labored as circuit and stationed preacher, as well as presiding elder, for more than thirty years. In 1838 he became agent for the Cokesbury, S. C, school, and originated and car- ried out a plan of contribution which secured to that institution a handsome endowment. In 1839 he was stricken with apoplexy, but he continued to labor till his death. He was eminent among cler- gymen of the southern Methodist church.

KENNEDY, William Nassau, Canadian sol- dier, b. in Darlington, Ont., 27 April, 1839 ; d. in London, England, 3 May, 1885. In 1870 he went to Winnipeg as a lieutenant in the expeditionary force under Gen. Garnet (now Lord) Wolseley. After this force was disbanded he adopted Winni- peg as his home, and in 1872 was appointed regis- ter of deeds for the city and county. In 1873 he became a member of the executive council of the northwest, and in 1875-'6 was elected chief magis- trate. He organized and was for several years lieutenant-colonel of the Winnipeg field battery, and in 1883 took command of the 90th Winnipeg rifles. When the demand came for Canadian voya- geurs to go to Egypt, Col. Kennedy selected them from Manitoba, and afterward served with them throughout the entire Egyptian campaign.

KENNEDY, William Sloane, clergyman, b. in Muncy, Pa., 3 June, 1822 ; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 30 July, 1861. He was graduated at Western Reserve college in 1846, studied theology, was licensed to preach in 1848, and soon afterward ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Brecksville, Ohio. He was called to Sandusky in 1852, and m 1859 took charge of a parish in Cincinnati. Mr. Kennedy was the author of " Messianic Prophecies" and a "Life of Christ" (Hudson, Ohio, 1852 ; new ed.. New York, 1858-60) ; and "A History of the Plan of Union" and " Sacred Analogies."

KENNER, Duncan F., planter, b. in New Or- leans in 1813 ; d. there, 3 July, 1887. He became