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552 KINNISON, David, soldier, b. in Old Kingston, near Portsmouth, Me., 17 Nov., 1786; d. in Chicago, Ill., 24 Feb., 1851. He owned a farm in Lebanon, and was one of seventeen who formed a political club and held secret meetings in a tavern. They went to Boston and took part in the destruction of the tea in the harbor. Kinnison was in active service during the Revolutionary war, and afterward settled in Danville, Vt., where he engaged in farming eight years. He then removed to Wells, Me., and resided there until the war of 1812, through which he served, being wounded at Williamsburg. In 1845 he went to Chicago, reduced to extreme poverty, with a pension of $96 a year, and until 1848 earned money by manual labor. At a public anti-slavery meeting in the summer of 1848 he addressed the audience with marked effect. He was the last survivor of the Boston &ldquo;tea-party.&rdquo;

KINSELLA, Thomas, journalist, b. in Ireland in 1832; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 11 Feb., 1884. He came to this country when a boy, learned the Srinter's trade, and in 1861 became editor of the irooklyn, N. Y., " Eagle." He supported An- drew Johnson, and favored the nominations of Horace Greeley in 1872, Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, and Gen. Hancock in 1880. In 1866 he was made postmaster of Brooklyn, and he afterward held other local offices. He was a member of congress in 1871-'3, and he was also one of the original Brooklyn bridge trustees, and president of the Faust society and the St. Patrick's club.

KINSEY, John, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1693; d. in Burlington, N. J., 11 May, 1750. He was the son of a Quaker preacher, and the grandson of John Kinsey, one of the commission- ers of the proprietors of West Jersey, who came from London in 1677. The son was educated in the law, and practised in the courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1725 he appeared as coun- sel in a cause before the court of chancery in Phila- delphia, and on his arising to address the court with head covered, after the manner of the Quak- ers, Sir William Keith, the governor and president of the court, ordered Kinsey to take off his hat, which he refused to do, whereupon Keith directed an officer to remove it. This act on Keith's part gave great offence to the Quakers. They claimed that under the law they had the right to remain in court with heads covered, and to this effect ad- dressed a petition to the governor, in consequence of which Keith rescinded his ruling and ordered that a decree to this end be entered on the minutes of the court. Up to 1730 Kinsey resided in New Jersey, where he served in the assembly, and for several years was speaker of that body ; but after this date he lived in Philadelphia, and in the same year was chosen to the assembly of Pennsylvania, to which body he was continuously re-elected till his death, and after 1739 was its speaker. He was attorney-general of the province from 1738 till 1741, and in 1743 was appointed chief justice, which post he held until his death. In 1737 he was one of the two commissioners that were sent to Maryland to negotiate for a settlement of the boundary dispute, and in 1745 was one of the com- missioners who, in conjunction with commissioners from New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, negotiated at Albany, N. Y., a treaty with the Six Nations. He published " Laws of New Jersey " (1733). — His son, James, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 22 March, 1731 ; d. in Burlington, N. J., 4 Jan., 1803, became eminent as a lawyer and practised in the courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 1772 he was chosen to the assembly of New Jersey, and was the leader of the opposition to Gov. Will- iam Franklin. In 1774 he was elected to the Con- tinental congress, but resigned the office in No- vember. He was chief justice of New Jersey from 1789 till his death. He received the degree of LL. D. from Princeton in 1790.

KINZIE, John, founder of Chicago, b. in Que- bec, Canada, in 1763: d. in Chicago, 111., 6 Jan., 1828. He was of Scotch parentage, and the son of John McKenzie, but dropped the prefix to the fam- ily name, and his descendants spell it as it is gives above. His father died when the boy was quite young, and his mother married William Forsythe, a merchant, who settled in New York city. At the age of ten John ran away from home, and fol- lowed the trade of a jeweler in Quebec for three years, but afterward became an Indian trader in the west. In 1804 he established a trading-post on the site of the present city of Chicago, where he was the first white settler, and he subsequently founded others on Rock, Illinois, and Kankakee rivers. He was twice married. His daughter, Maria, became the wife of Gen. David Hunter. — His daughter-in-law, Mrs. John H. Kinzie, wrote " Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest," being the early history of Chicago (New York, 1856).

KIP, William Ingraham, P. E. bishop, b. in New York city, 3 Oct., 1811. He is descended from Ruloff de Kype, a native of Brittany, and a warm partisan of the Guises in the French civil wars between Protestants and Papists in the 16th century. On the defeat of his party he fled to the Low Countries, and, joining the army of the Due d'An- jou, fell in battle near Jarnac. His son, Ruloff, became a Protestant and settled in Am- sterdam, and his grandson, Henry (b. in 1576), was an active member of the Company of foreign countries that was organized in 1588 to explore a northeast passage to the Indies. In 1635 he came to America with his family, but soon returned to Holland. His sons remained, bought large tracts of land, and were active in public affairs. One of them, Henry, was a member of the first popular assembly in New Netherlands, and another, Isaac, owned the property that is now the City hall park, New York city. William Ingraham was graduated at Yale in 1831, studied law, and afterward divinity. He was graduated at the General theological seminary, and took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1835. He was first called to St. Peter's, Morristown, N. J., and then served as assistant at Grace church, New York city. In 1838 he became rector of St. Paul's, Albany, which office he retained until he was chosen missionary bishop of California in 1853. He was elected bishop in 1857. Bishop Kip received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia in 1847, and that of LL. D. from Yale in 1872. He has been a contributor to the " Church " review and the "Churchman," and has published " The Lenten Fast" (New York, 1843); "The Double Witness of the Church " (1844) ; " The Christmas Holidays in Rome" (1845; London, 1846); "Early Jesuit Missions in America " (New York, 1846) ; " Early Con-