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Rh a wealthy sugar-planter, served for several terms in the Louisiana legislature, and was a member of the State constitutional conventions of 1845 and 1852, presiding over the latter. Pie was a member of the Confederate congress, and chairman of its ways and means committee, and in 1864 was sent by Jefferson Davis as special commissioner to England and Prance, to secure the recognition of the southern Confederacy. Much of his property was confiscated on the capture of New Orleans in 1862, but at his death he was again a millionaire. He was fond of horses, and owned one of the largest stock-farms in the United States.

KENNY, Sir Edward, Canadian statesman, b. in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1800. He was edu- cated in Ireland, and came in 1824 to Halifax, N. S., where he engaged in trade. He sat in the legislative council of Nova Scotia for twenty-six years, and for eleven years was its president. He became a member of the privy council, and in July, 1867, was appointed receiver-general of Canada, which portfolio he held till October, 1869, when he became president of the privy council. He re- tired from the cabinet in May, 1870, on being ap- pointed administrator of the government of Nova Scotia. He was called to the senate in May, 1867, resigned in 1876, and was knighted in 1870.

KENRICK, Francis Patrick, R. C. archbishop, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 3 Dec, 1797 ; d. in Balti- more, Md., 6 July, 1863. He prepared for the priesthood in the College of the propaganda at Rome in 1815— '21, and in the latter year was select- ed to direct the newly established theological semi- nary at Bardstown, Kv. During the jubilee of 1826-7, he attended Bishop Flaget in his pas- toral visitations, and gave public confer- ences on religion which led to the po- lemical discussions in which he was frequently engaged during the rest of his life. In 1829 he attended the council of Baltimore as theologian to Bishop Flaget, and was appointed assistant secretary. He was nominated coadjutor bishop of Philadelphia in 1830, and was consecrated bishop of Arath in partibus infidelium on 6 June at Bards- town by Bishop Flaget. The administration of the diocese of Philadelphia required at this time great tact and firmness. The trustees of St. Mary's church, which was the bishop's cathedral, refused to recognize him as pastor, but he interdicted the church, and the trustees finally submitted to his authority. He then made a regulation that all church property in future should be vested in the bishop. The trustees of St. Paul's church, Pitts- burg, refused to accept this regulation, but after a bitter contest the bishop had his way. A large number of congregations in Pennsylvania were without pastors, and to remedy this evil he founded the Theological seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia in 1838. During the cholera epi- demic of 1832 he was active in his ministrations to the sick. In 1842 he introduced the Order of the hermits of St. Augustine into his diocese, and helped them to build the College of St. Thomas at Villanova. During the anti-Catholic riots of 1844 he constantly preached peace and forbear- ance, and patiently took measures to restore the edifices that had been destroyed. He aided in building St. Joseph's college in 1851, and another of the same name in Susquehanna county. On the death of Archbishop Eccleson he was translated to the see of Baltimore in August, 1851, and ap- pointed by the pope apostolic delegate to preside at a national council of all the archbishops and bishops of the United States in Baltimore in May, 1852. Some years afterward he was invested with a " primacy of honor " over the other archbishops. During his stay in Baltimore a great impulse was given to the erection of charitable and educational institutions, among which were the Infant asylum, the Aged women's home, St. Agnes's asylum for destitute sick, the School of St. Laurence at Locust point, and the College of Loyola. He went to Rome in 1854 to take part in the deliberations that resulted in the definition of the dogma of the im- maculate conception. Archbishop Kenrick was a profound Hebrew scholar, and spoke the principal modern languages fluently. He is considered the ablest theologian that the Roman Catholic church in the United States has produced, and his theo- logical works have been largely used both in this country and in Europe. His works are " Letters of Omicron to Omega " (1828) ; '• Four Sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bardstown " (Bards- town, 1829) ; " Theologia Dogmatica " (4 vols., Philadelphia, 1839-'40 ; new ed., 3 vols., Baltimore, 1857) ; " Theologia Moralis " (3 vols.. Philadelphia, 1841-3) ; " Letters on the Primacy of the Holy See and the Authority of General Councils." in reply to Bishop Hopkins of Vermont (1837; enlarged ed., with the title " The Primacy of the Apostolic See vindicated," Baltimore, 1855) ; " The Catholic Doctrine on Justification explained and vindicated " (Philadelphia, 1841); " Treatise on Baptism" (New York, 1843) : "Vindication of the Catholic Church," a series of letters in reply to Bishop John II. Hopkins, and " End of Religious Controversy controverted " (Baltimore, 1855). Archbishop Kenrick was dissatisfied with the condition of the text of the English Roman Catholic Bibles that were used iti the United States, which had widely departed from the Rheims and Douay translations. He devoted himself to a careful translation on the basis of the original Rhemish-Douay version, edited by Dr. Challoner, with copious notes. This includes " The New Testament " (2 vols.. New York, 1849-51) ; " Psalms, Books of Wisdom and Canticle of Canticles " (Baltimore, 1857) ; and "Job and the Prophets" (1859).— His brother, Peter Richard, archbishop, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 17 Aug., 1806, was educated in his native country, and, after finishing his theological course, was ordained priest about 1830. He followed his brother to the United States in 1833, and was appointed assistant pastor at the cathedral in Philadelphia. Shortly afterward he also took charge of the " Catholic Herald," and in 1835 he became pastor of the cathedral parish. He was then made president of the diocesan seminary, in which he also filled the chair of dogmatic theology, and he was next "raised to the rank of vicar-general of the diocese, and accredited by Bishop Brute as his theologian to the Third provincial council of Baltimore in 1837. Bishop Rosati, of St. Louis, demanded the appointment of a coadjutor in 1841, and Father Kenrick was chosen for the post. He was consecrated bishop of Dra.sa in partibus infidelium in Philadelphia on 30 Nov., and succeeded Dr. Rosati as bishop of St. Louis, 25 Sept., 1843. Bishop Kenrick found his diocese in financial