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Rh 8 Feb., 1883. Mr. Kirkpatrick has been a lieu- tenant-colonel of militia, was on active duty dur- ing the Fenian raid, has been president of the Dominion rifle association, and commanded the Canadian rifle-team at Wimbledon in 1876.

KIRKPATRICK, John Lycan, clergyman, b. in Mecklenburg county, N. C, 20 Jan., 1813 ; d. in Lexington, Va., 24 June, 1885. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney college in 1832, and after teaching two years entered Union theological seminary, New York city. He was licensed to preach in 1837, and installed pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church of Lynchburg, Va. In 1841 he accepted a call from Gainesville, Ala., and in 1853 from Charleston, S. C. During this pastorate he was for four years editor of the " Southern Pres- byterian." In 1861 he became president of David- son college, N. C, and in 1866 he was elected to the chair of moral philosophy in Washington college, Lexington, Va., under the presidency of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Dr. Kirkpatrick was the moderator of the general assembly of 1862. He was for many years a member of the board of trus- tees of Union theological seminary.

KIRKWOOD, James Pugh, civil engineer, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland. 27 March, 1807: d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 April. 1877. He was edu- cated in Scotland, and in 1821 was apprenticed as a civil engineer, continuing as such and as an assistant until 1832, when he established himself independently in Glasgow. During the same year he came to the United States and served as assist- ant and resident engineer on various railroads. In 1839 he was engaged in the preliminary works of Flynn's Knoll lighthouse, New York harbor, un- der the orders of the U. S. engineers. For several years he was U. S. constructing engineer for the docks, hospital, and workshops at Pensacola, Fla., and afterward was general superintendent of the Erie railroad. During 1850-"5 he was chief en- gineer on the Missouri Pacific i - ailroad, and sub- sequently, while still continuing his relation with that road, as consulting engineer, he took charge of the work of lowering and moving horizontally the great water-main on Eighth avenue, New York city, into a rock-cut. He received the appointment in 1856 of chief engineer of the Nassau water-works in Brooklyn, and remained as such until 1860. Thenceforth his services were sought chiefly as a consulting engineer. The subject of municipal water-works was his specialty, and he made im- portant reports on it to many cities, including Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo., and Brooklyn, N. Y. He was advisory engineer of the Lynn., Mass., water-works at the time of his death. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was an in- valid, but he persisted in his work, and was re- garded as the first engineer in his specialty in the United States. He was president of the American society of civil engineers in 1867-'8.

KIRKWOOD, Robert, soldier, b. near Newark, Del., in 1730 ; d. in Ohio, 4 Nov., 1791. After re- ceiving a classical education at Newark academy, he engaged in farming, but at the beginning of the Revolution entered the army as lieutenant, and participated in the battles of Long Island, Trenton, and Princeton. Early in 1777 he was commissioned captain, and engaged in all the important battles of the three following campaigns. In 1780 he ac- companied his regiment under Gen. Horatio Gates to the south, where it suffered severely at the battle of Camden. The remnant that survived the engagement was attached, under Kirkwood and Col. Jacquet, to Gen. Henry Lee's light infantry. Capt. Kirkwood commanded it at Cowpens, Guil- ford, Eutaw. and the other battles of this cam- paign, and was brevetted major. He afterward emigrated to Ohio, settling nearly opposite Wheel- ing, and was killed at the battle of Miami.

KIRKWOOD, Robert, clergvman, b. in Paisley, Scotland, 25 May, 1793 ; d. in 'Yonkers, N. Y„ 26 Aug., 1866. He was educated in Glasgow college, studied theology there, was licensed in 1828, and, in response to a call for pastors, went to the United States and became pastor of the Dutch Reformed church at Cortlandville, N. Y. He officiated suc- cessively there, at Auburn, and at Sandbeach, N. Y., until 1839, when he served seven years as domestic missionary in Illinois. For the next twelve years he was an agent of the Bible and tract society. He connected himself with the Presbyterian church in 1857, settled at Yonkers, and devoted his time to literary labors. Besides contributions to the re- ligious press, he published " Lectures on the Mil- lennium " (New York. 1855) ; " Universalism Ex- plained " (1856) ; " A Plea for the Bible " (1860) ; and " Illustrations of the Offices of Christ " (1862).

KIRKWOOD, Samuel Jordan, senator, b. in Harford county, Md., 20 Dec, 1813. His only schooling was received at an academy in Washing- ton, D. C, and ended when he was about fourteen years old. He removed to Ohio in 1835, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. From 1845 till 1849 he was prosecuting attorney of Rich- land county, and in 1850-'l was a member of the State constitutional convention. He removed to Iowa in 1855. engaged in milling and farming, and in 1856 served in the state senate. He was elected governor of Iowa in 1859, and re-elected in 1861. He placed in the field nearly or quite fifty regi- ments of infantry and cavalry, all but the first being enlisted for three years, and throughout the war there was no draft in Iowa, as her quota was always filled by volun- teers. He was offered in 1862 the appoint- ment of U. S. minis- ter to Denmark, and, in the hope of his ac- ceptance, Mr. Lincoln held the appointment open until the expi- ration of Mr. Kirk- wood's term as gov- ernor, but he then made his refusal final. In 1866 he was elected U. S. senator as a Re- publican, to fill the un- expired term of James Harlan. In 1875 he was for a third time governor of the state, and the next year was re-elected L T. S. senator, serving till 1881, "when he resigned to enter the cabinet of President Garfield as secretary of the interior. Since 1882 he has held no public office. — His cousin, Daniel, mathematician, b. in Bradenbaugh, Md., 27 Sept., 1814, was educated in York county academy, Pa., and subsequently devoted his life to educational pursuits, becoming principal of Lancaster, Pa., high-school in 1843, and of Pottsville academy in 1848. In 1851 he was made professor of mathematics in Delaware college, and in 1854 elected president of that institution, holding these offices until 1856. He then received the appointment of professor of mathematics in the Indiana university. Bloomington, and ten vears later was called to" fill a similar chair in Washington and Jefferson college. Pa. In 1867 he was recalled to Indiana, and has since remained in that university.